Kategorie: Management & Entrepreneurship
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Special Part Ii Why My World Is Poorer Without Planes In The Air And How Stories Can
Reinhard Mey, Musixmatch Read Part I from yesterday here Scholars and Scientists For the last book I wrote about management narratives, I happened to read an interview with the president of an academic association. In that interview, the scholar is asked about her definition of her field. And the interviewer wants to push her to…
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Online Education Before And After
Ries, Eric (2011). The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses, 131. Story behind the Passage A few days ago, my mother actually raised the question whether it is such a drama if the schools go on Christmas break a lot earlier than planned because of the current Covid…
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Strategy Stays
Mintzberg, Henry, Bruce Ahlstrand, and Joseph Lampel (1998). Strategy Safari: A Guided Tour Through the Wilds of Strategic Management, 15. Story behind the Passage I love strategy. Yes, that might sound old-fashioned but I am convinced strategy is important — and will remain important. The thing that I am seeing these days is that many are claiming…
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Special Part I Why My World Is Poorer Without Planes In The Air
Musixmatch I do not have a Senator Status or access to the LH Business Lounge. I never traveled First or Business Class on a scheduled flight. My Miles & More account shows exactly 1,464 Award Miles and 0 Status Miles as of Sept. 2020. I did not board a plane since January this year when…
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Book Of The Week Der Kleine Kaempfer
Doppler, Klaus (2009). Der kleine Kämpfer und sein Weg ins Glück. Story behind the Book Choice This short book is a treasure. It touched me, it intrigued me, it comforted me. And there is no reason, why it would not do this for others. This book was a gift I gave myself for Christmas. As I…
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Breaking The Tetris Effect
Achor, Shawn (2010). The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles that Fuel Success and Performance at Work, 99. Story behind the Passage There are tough days in the life of an entrepreneur and there are even tougher days. But all these days are really worth it. They take you to places where you do not necessarily wanted…
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Book Of The Week The Dragonfly Effect
Jennifer Aaker, Andy Smith, with Carlye Adler (2010). The Dragonfly Effect: Quick, Effective, and Powerful Ways To Use Social Media. Story behind the Book Choice Social media are fascinating to me. They have become part of our lives within less than two decades. Remember, Facebook, which really started the snowball effect, was founded in 2004. But…
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Effectiveness And Strengths
Drucker, Peter F. (2004/1967). The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done, 23–24. Story behind the Passage There is hardly any need to talk about Drucker when introducing my passage today. That is partly because Drucker needs no introduction and partly because I talk about him so often. Just yesterday I mentioned…
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Blitzscaling Is Not Our Story Part Ii Baby Steps Are
www.history.com Story behind the Passage This morning I made the decision to write a follow-up to yesterday’s story because I was not done in a way. I had talked about how the concept of blitzscaling (Reid Hoffman), i.e., super-fast company growth, does not fit into the European/German narrative of entrepreneurship. Today I want to focus…
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Courage Is More Important Than Genius
Thiel, Peter, with Blake Masters (2014). Zero to One: Notes on Startups or How to Build the Future, 5. Story behind the Passage On some days, writing is fucking hard. It does not happen to me very often but it does. The only thing that makes you go on when something is hard is habit. Habit…