• CHANGING THE CLIMATE OF CLIMATE CHANGE

    A Plea for a New Performance Culture – Greta Thunberg and Luisa Neubauer won’t save the world. Yet, the outcry of the youth shows the urgency involved, and science points to the need for action. This is a model that has, indeed, led to some sensitization with respect to the climate crisis. But it also shows that fifty-two years after the first Earth Day, we’re rolling out our own changes far too slowly.

  • The Final Narcissistic Injury

    “Subdue the earth!” With this instruction, the Old Testament God […]

  • IN SEARCH OF A HOLISTIC PHILOSOPHY

    The world and how I see it

  • HOMO OBSOLETUS

    Will there be a conscious revolution in a quantum world? Will we become obsolete?

  • PROSPERITY FOR POSTERITY

    Prosperity for future generations can only be achieved if there is a collective effort to strive for “dynamic equilibrium.”

  • Life is a wonderful journey to nowhere

    We call the worldless memories in front of arbitrary backdrops “Our Moments” and “Our Stories.” These have now even reached an existential dimension: “I Instagram, therefore I am.”

  • IT’S NOT ALL A MATTER OF OPTIMIZATION – FORGE YOUR FUTURE WITH AVANT-GARDE

    Positive progress and innovation are driven by free societies that seek change. Change, however, is not a natural law.

  • A Ménage À Troi of ‘Doing’

    Complexity and chaos of information. Uncertainties and ambiguities. A clusterfuck of paradoxes. How do we cope with the now? Here are 3 things you can do starting now:

  • YOUR NEW YEAR`S ILLUSIONS

    We are getting closer to that time of the year. What will be new in 2017? Any resolutions? Start smoking? Stop smoking? What is it going to be?

    Here are 3 things you should do in 2017 – and the good thing? You do not need to wait until January 1st.  Start tomorrow morning, and follow up in the next week.

    #1. Set off time every week in your Calendar for something new. Something where you can face your fears or simply learn something new – or just play. It is not about finding a „work-life balance“, but rather a „life-life-balance“. Your „work-life“ should include play, and your „private life“ should also be in balance.

  • THE ONLY VALUABLE OIL LEFT IS OLIVE OIL

    Approximately two years ago, at the end of 2013, I began saying that oil companies need to figure out how to disrupt themselves and find new ways (while they still have money) of doing business (referring to my latest piece on disruption here: LUFTHANSA: JUST DO IT). Back then the price of crude oil was somewhere between 95 – 100 USD. So crazy I must have been with my provocative thesis: “You have to figure out how to make profits at 30 USD or find other things to invest in – e.g. turn your oil-machinery green.” All the well-paid (or should I say, overpaid?) specialists laughed at me and said, “You have no idea. We know this market. And, you always exaggerate”.