Kategorie: Management & Entrepreneurship
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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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Taking The Leap
Branson, Richard (2008). Screw It, Let’s Do It: 14 Lessons on Making It to the Top while Having Fun and Growing Greener, 60. Story behind the Passage Today, I had so many awesome conversations that I can hardly remember all of them in detail. I know, this blog is now turning into something like a diary….
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Diversity As A Personal Brand
Aust, Oliver (2020). Unignorable: Build Your Personal Brand and Boost Your Business in 30 Days, 36. Story behind the Passage When I was still a kid and did something that was typically “Silke,” my parents used to laugh and say: “Gee, you are a brand of your own!” (German: “Du bist eine Marke”). Just to highlight:…
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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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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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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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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…
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Special The Myth Of The Professorship As A Calling And How You Can Become Who You Really
# 22 SPECIAL (Part 1): The Myth of the Professorship as a “Calling“ and How You Can Become Who You Really Are My e-mail to PhD candidates, 09/17/2020 Why “Special”? Today is a special blogging day as you can already see in the headline. I have been blogging every day for three weeks now and I…
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Pragmatism
Menand, Louis (1997): An Introduction to Pragmatism. Pragmatism: A Reader. Ed. Louis Menand, xi. Story behind the Passage Yes, I know. Again, there is more than one passage above. But we are entering the philosophical sphere now — in case you have not noticed. From my perspective, it is o.k. to start a discussion of Pragmatism with half…