Sunday, January 18th, 2009
I am recently faced with the question, if I shall take up a very challenging position, asking the best of my abilities, thus meaning fun, but at high risk of a temporary assignment … Or play it save and go for a job I can do good, but which does not pose any real challenge [...]
Sunday, November 30th, 2008
Some of you have already read the Sapphilosophy-Blog I created in September as a result of another discussion with friends on philosophical issues like love, friendship, honor. Very famous in Germany on the topic is “the Knigge”, his book “On Human Relations” being considered to date the guideline for respectful interpersonal relations.In the past weeks, [...]
Sunday, November 23rd, 2008
If you don’t know what Six Sigma is about, read this Wikipedia-article first. I had some discussions lately about sense or nonsense of Six Sigma. Part of the information flooding today is that there are a lot more variations of “best practices”. So I do not disagree with Six Sigma, but there’s two points you [...]
Sunday, October 19th, 2008
Thanks to friends like Sapphire, I discuss lately questions of Ethics and Morale. If you like to join into the discussion, I recommend you our private Sapphilosophy-blog. If I look at the managers today, they hide behind the same old reasons as did the people with powers in the Third Reich. Did we not learn [...]