Tag Archives: Trust

The Power of Bureaucrats

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 [...]

eMail Encryption

I was asked to address this in the blog as well. Since 2001 I use a digital e-Mail-signature provided in a cost-free web-of-trust organized by Thawte, one of the leading providers of digital server signatures for websites.
I also voluntarily confirm the idendity for the user(s) with 35 points. 50 points are needed to have a [...]

Data Security

Best Western hit the media this week being reported to have been hacked and 8 million customer datasets being stolen. Best Western objected the news, mentioning they have no proof for such hack and they would delete their data anyway frequently.
Say WHAT? Corporations spend millions acquiring customer data and Best Western deletes them? Hmmm…
No matter, [...]

General Sales Agents

This week I addressed the issue of General Sales Agents (GSA).
In general, the GSA is a very good idea. If you cannot afford your own staff, why not share with other companies just as yours? There are two major hurdles:
1. In many cases, the GSA is considered a “second class employee”, as they only spend [...]

Banking Mafia

I don’t know if this is a specific German issue, but lately a lot of deals become public, where banks and analysts are found to misuse their power to increase the IPO-value of startups or systematic damaging of reputation and corporate value i.e. by publishing misleading information or cancelling given credits without cause, just to [...]

Do you eat insects?

No? I couldn’t make you consider eating that scorpion? Hmm… How about Lobster? Shrimp? That is something different? Okay. They live in the sea, they are larger. But matter of fact, they both are crustaceans! [1]
So what are cultural differences all about? I was asked lately - by a beautiful lady I must admit - [...]