• 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”.

  • WILL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY FIND GOD?

    Science, Technology and God have been playing hide-and-seek since Leonardo Da Vinci (seen by many as the first scientist) started slicing up dead people in the search for answers of mysteries and secrets.

  • WHAT LANGUAGE DO YOU THINK IN?

    Berlin. There I was, at 6 a.m., running alongside the beautiful river of Spree with my friend from politics – the only time slot made available for me to meet up in his packed schedule.

  • Bye Bye Religion

    2022 – six years into the future, what should we expect?  It will be somewhat of a milestone, as it is 350 years since one of the greatest geniuses that ever lived passed away, at age 44,

  • 7.5 MUST-LEARN LESSONS FROM PHILOSOPHY

    In order to understand what tomorrow will bring, we must study what has already come to pass and use the knowledge gleaned from history’s greatest thinkers to identify our current “blind spots” that those before us have already observed.

  • FORGET “INNOVATION” – FORGE YOUR FUTURE WITH AVANT-GARDE

    Forget “Innovation” – Forge Your Future with Avant-Garde

    Forget “Innovation” – Forge Your Future with Avant-Garde

    In 1439, Johannes Gensfleisch (better known as Gutenberg) created what might be the most revolutionary invention in history: the printing press. His press shifted the paradigm of communication, because people started to publish books, essays, and other written material more cheaply and in greater numbers than ever before. Through print, they shared their inspiring, sometimes crazy ideas and advancements over the following centuries, which eventually led to the technological revolutions of our time.