Kategorie: Allgemein
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Communication As Life Narrative
McQuail, Denis (2005): McQuail’s Mass Communication Theory, 381. Story behind the Passage It was some weekday morning in the spring of 2007, I was 23 years old and in the second semester of my university studies. The wife of a young colleague of my Dad called me at home. “Silke, my boss is looking for someone…
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The Wrong Rebirth Of The Author
Backes, Laura, Sebastian Hammeleleh, Tobias Rapp, and Claudia Voigt. Der Spiegel, 44, 120. Story behind the Passage There are writers who have the privilege of publishing with an acclaimed publishing house. And there are writers who get kicked out of a publishing house after 40 years of successful book writing. Both of these things happened to…
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Saying No To The Mba Bubble
Zanetti, Mariana (2013). The MBA Bubble: Why Getting an MBA Is a Bad Idea, 140. Story behind the Passage What does it take to say “no” to something? It is just a word, you think? Why would it be difficult? Well, ask yourself right now when someone asked you to take a new job/role with more…
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Paradigm Shifts And Humility
Covey, Stephen R. (1989). The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, n.p. Story behind the Passage Yes, I know, this is a long screenshot today. And it is not even from a startup story. I have chosen this story today because I had three conversations in the last 24 hours that made me think of it….
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Blitzscaling Is Not Our Story
# 15: “Blitzscaling” Is Not Our Story (Part I) Hoffman, Reid, and Chris Yeh (2018): The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies, 279. Story behind the Passage Today I am getting a bit serious. I am already warning you — some people in the German startup scene might get pissed off. But since you know that…
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Among Ghosts What Sells A Book Is Heart
Harris, Robert (2008). The Ghost: One Man Will Uncover the World’s Biggest Conspiracy, 23. Story behind the Passage I am quite diverging from my original plan of talking about startup stories today — but maybe I will not. I have no idea. Let us see where this is going. I just know that I need to write…
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Tupperware S Brownie Wise Erasing History
Mason, Fergus (2014). Brownie Wise: Tupperware Queen, 85. Story behind the Passage This morning I wanted to write a text about an interview that I had conducted almost a year ago with a medium-sized industrial company. The business has continuously expanded since its founding almost 150 years ago. I had done the interview with the two…
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Experience Is
Blanchard, Ken, William Oncken, Jr., and Hal Burrows (2004, fourth ed.): The One Minute Manager Meets the Monkey, 50. Story behind the Passage Who would have thought that I can choose a passage that is so brief? Given that all my previous choices were much longer, this is a welcome exception. As you will see, however,…
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Feedback Overkill And Gut Feeling
Hsieh, Tony (2010): Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose, 140. Story behind the Passage Just this evening, I was participating in a virtual women’s founder event in Switzerland. In one of the fireside talks, the topic of getting feedback on one’s ideas came up repeatedly. This was when I decided to write about…
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Management By Objectives
Drucker, Peter F. (2005/1954). The Practice of Management, 144. Story behind the Passage The story behind this passage is very simple. I love Peter Drucker! He is my absolute management hero. I love him so much that I spent a whole chapter in my habilitation (second academic book) on his first study about General Motors…