I am an engineer and thus I have been trained to analyze problems and calculate the solution. This is how I started my career.However, I quickly learned that the world is not rational. We are all human beings and we do not act in a fully rational way. And rightly so,...

We live in a VUCA world. VUCA stands for Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, Ambiguous. This is our reality. Strategies are long-term. So how does this fit together? Are agile reactions to the volatile changes enough and long-term strategies are obsolete? Or do we have to...

😳 I am a pain in the ass! - Really? As CEO of a medium-sized company I got many unsolicited messages from people that wanted to sell something. I read and tried to react to most of them. However, some of them were really annoying and a few really were a pain in the...

🐟 The fish always starts stinking from its head. I grew up in Northern Germany with this saying. I love the sea and went sailing with my parents every weekend and every summer holiday when I was a boy. But the reason for bringing the saying up is much more boring -...

I am so busy, I do not have time to talk to people outside my network. When I was CEO at #Schaerer, this was exactly how I felt many times. The day-to-day operational tasks were o overwhelming that my day had not enough hours. However, I was lucky that this job...

„Joerg Schwartze poses the questions behind the question.“ (CEO family holding) Today I want to share another story from my past. I was headhunted to lead a large business unit for a renowned family-owned business in Germany. In the course of the application process I...