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Weekend Podcast – Maximize Future Potential with Zero-Based-Thinking
"Brilliant thinking is rare, but courage is in even shorter supply than genius." – Peter Thiel In these times of rapid change and almost tectonic shifts in our business environment, I am often baffled by management teams' reluctance to abandon initiatives or projects...
Weekend Podcast: Focus – The Hidden Power of „No“
“Focus is the art of knowing what to ignore.” – James Clear, Author ("Atomic Habits") When I work with departments or teams on strategy or OKRs, the hardest part is always deciding what to focus on — or more importantly, what NOT to tackle this quarter (or year)....
Weekend Podcast – Linking Strategy and Execution with OKRs
“We must realize—and act on the realization—that if we try to focus on everything, we focus on nothing.” ― John Doerr, Venture Capital Legend Back from our holidays in Scotland (a beautiful country, somewhat spoiled by Instagrammers crowding landmarks!), I found...
Weekend Podcast: Navigating Generative AI – Practical Insights for Managers
“In business, the opportunities for AI are significant, but only if they address real needs.” – Bill Gates With Sam Altman calling AI investors "overexcited," the MIT publishing a report claiming that 95% of AI projects fail to deliver, and Meta putting the brakes on...
Weekend Podcast – Is Agile Dead?
"The report of my death was an exaggeration." – Mark Twain The idea of Agile's demise has been a topic of constant debate recently. Just have a look at the comments on Cliff Berg's LinkedIn post earlier this week. Therefore, I fed my AI what I perceive as context...
Weekend Podcast – RICE – The Secret to High-Impact Prioritization
“People who can focus, get things done. People who can prioritize, get the right things done.” – John Maeda, VP of AI and Design, Microsoft We’ve all been there – numerous prioritization discussions with many opinions but little rigor. Enter RICE, the prioritization...
Weekend Podcast – Context is What You Need!*
“I should venture to assert that the most pervasive fallacy of philosophic thinking goes back to neglect of context.” — John Dewey, philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer The world of Artificial Intelligence is rapidly evolving, and with it, the way we...
Weekend Podcast – Lecture Notes on Steroids
“The world is so full of ambiguity and uncertainty that the design attitude of exploring and prototyping multiple possibilities is most likely to lead to a powerful new business model.” ― Alexander Osterwalder, Consultant & Author After another day of lectures, I...
Weekend Podcast – Leadership, Agility, and AI
Weekend Podcast: Code on Wheels – Inside Tesla’s and Rivian’s Software Revolution
“If you think good architecture is expensive, try bad architecture.”— Brian Foote, Software researcher specializing in reusable patterns A few weeks ago, my wonderful Fiat 500 Convertible EV autonomously decided to update its software after a brief stop in the middle...
Weekend Podcast – AI Prototyping
“We see the wave coming. Now, this time next year, every company has to implement it, not even have a strategy. Implement it.” — Emad Mostaque, founder and CEO, Stability AI Yesterday, my wife faced a challenge: a friend liked one of her recipes and wanted her to...
Weekend Podcast: Effective Strategy – Now Available on Spotify!
"What's dangerous is not to evolve.” – Jeff Bezos Our environment is changing at an unparalleled pace in our lifetime. Plans become outdated almost as quickly as we can develop them. A proper strategy may offer a way out of this dilemma. Unfortunately, strategy and...
2025 Predictions
The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed.” – William Gibson, Author With 2025 barely here, William Gibson's quote feels more accurate than ever. Things appear to be in flux everywhere. Historian Niall Ferguson recently diagnosed an ongoing...
Weekend Reading – Principles for the Digital Age
It's for sure been a while since I wrote the last Weekend Reading. And no, I have not retired just yet 😉. You have not heard from me for a while because I am working on a new book. In German; the working title – for now – is "Digital-Management." With more than 100...
Weekend Reading – Your Team is Already Using AI. Are You Ready to Catch Up?
“You’ve got to use the “new thing” to do old things better. Then, you use the new thing to … do new things.”– N.N., Microsoft Employee It's been almost a year since I penned a WR titled "There's an AI for That." The message appears to have resonated. According to a...
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