Some weeks ago I didn’t get an assignment that would have helped the client to save money. The reason was that the client found me “overqualified” for significant parts of the task. I can agree that you do not need all my experiences and are capable do perform this job, but now I read today
If you read the headline and see the picture you most likely think about an engaged couple and not about engaged staff – yes, this comparison I have chosen for a purpose, not to confuse you, to inspire you! Relate to what engagement means for a couple, this is a lot of hope for a
Last week we were invited to speak at an inspirational lunch about Change Management. We were 4 of us and I knew that at least one will have a lot of great and animated slides, so I thought to keep the audience awake (or alive) I need to do something different. So I actually used
It is easy to translate hours into money using hourly rates. Is it also fair? I would say no way. If you are a newcomer on the freelance market you will get lousy hourly rates, if you come from the “Big 4” or similar consultancy firms with high reputation you can charge whatsoever. If you
August 16th 2009 in Berlin Usain Bolt set a historic milestone: 9,58 seconds, the fastest time ever a man ran 100 meter. It is still the world record. And Usain won not less than 8 Olympic gold medals, he is for sure one of the greatest athletes ever. Then at the end of his career
Less than 2 weeks ago I went to school for taking a certificate in Change Management by PROSCI(TM). Now you might wonder, why I as the change-maker shall go for certification in change management. I can give you a few answers on this question: We never stop learning: Even if there were many ingredients in
Last weekend we celebrated the wonderful Swedish traditional “Midsommar”, the turning point from days becoming longer to nights becoming longer again. It marks the beginning of the real summer and people in Sweden are winding down for vacation now. I had an exciting first half of the year with my new company, but I also
Yesterday Portugal won the first UEFA Nation League finals. Even of the captain of the team Cristiano Ronaldo has 157 appearances in the national team and scored unbelievable 88 goals the team itself consists of many less experienced players. Since Portugal had a few star players the last 2 decades, first Luis Figo then of
So new my final summary from the conference where (a lot of) academia met (at least some) practitioners! It is amazing what aspects of M&A actually are studied in a scientific way. We practitioners pick-up a extremely small portion of it only, so therefore I was so happy to be able to listen to this
So today about fellow practitioners presenting on the M&A conference at Warwick Business School last month. First out was James Allison, Executive Vice President for Corporate Strategy, M&A and Treasury at Unilever. James is a great speaker, so it was a pleasure to follow him. Despite he is a financial guy he didn’t feed us
