It is Easter Sunday. In the wake of my father’s death (the reason there was no Food For Thought last week) I think about god. Yulia does an Easter Lent. So I thought about the Easter Lent in Germany and learned only today about “Seven Weeks Without”, an Easter Lent initiative in the German churches. [...]
The past weeks have been quite a dramtatic change to me. Taking over the marketing at Erfurt Airport was the right decision. It calls for a fire fighter. And the first weeks produced a lot of bureaucratic overkill that made my life more miserable than it hat to be - challenging and fun as these [...]
Oh holy dear St. Florian
Don’t burn my house
Take the neighbors one
Four related cases in the past weeks triggered this Food For Thought:
German Rail - remember Lufthansa…
The IT system of German Rail crashed, disabling not only the entire distribution for a day, but also the train guidance system EBULA causing major delays on train schedules, stranded [...]
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 [...]
… is a book title. I referred to it in a discussion about relocation, where I want to share my experience here.
I found three “types” of people in regards to the willingness to relocate:
Type 1: The Earthbound.
They grew up, work and will die in their home town. Maybe relocate to the next bigger town, but [...]
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 should [...]
What is luxury to you? Is it the ability to travel the world? Is it a challenging job? Is it time with your family and kids? I do appreciate your feedback!
The luxury of my life was to get my eyes lasered. Some of you may recall me with the glasses. Thank goodness I got rid [...]
This blog-post has been prepared, as are the next ones the next two weeks. I decided to go for an adventure trip to Russia. And no, not to Moscow or Saint Petersburg, but into the country.
The region I visit is addressing international markets but lacks a decent airline connection. In fact, there is one. But [...]
This question was asked in LinkedIn a while ago. My preferred answer:“I find the phrase not only cheap but to ‘buy into’ means you allow yourself to be a part of the meat market, and become an object/subject to be… see more bartered.” [Sapphire]
Thanks to LinkedIn, I have the fortune to have become friends with [...]
From: http://bringmearock.blogspot.com/By Edward J. Fern, Time to Profit, Inc.
Throughout the time I was employed by others, I played a game I call, “Bring Me a Rock.” The game has thousands of minor variations but they all follow the same basic format.
The game begins when the boss calls me into his or her office and [...]
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