A way of life
Today I created another action plan and dotted down some more advice for myself: Think twice before you proceed What is the risk and is it worth it? Prioritize your priorities Never say nevers ... Send many thank you emails! (...and receive a few heart-warming replies.) You create your own luck. More +
One of my colleagues forwarded me this fantastic slide deck from Eric Schmidt the Executive Chairman at Google. I hardly ever post anything on LinkedIn but this one I just had to post. Clearly a lot of heart and brain went into these slides- they really caught me. And most of it isn’t just related to doing More +
Going through an intense phase of personal learning. Asking myself: Who am I? Where do I want to be? What do I want to do? My strengths & weaknesses? What do I want to learn more off? So who am I? A very sensitive person. Someone who wants to be a catalyst for change. “Be the change you More +
Communication across 3 different time zones can be very tricky. Finding a timeslot for a joined phone conference is near to impossible. Email has lost much of its charm because we just get too many emails. So how to get a lot of information spread across the globe? I never tried video as a means of More +
Thinking a lot about leadership lately. How to be a good leader. To me leadership is either: Inspiration or Admiration You either lead because you inspire, you are charismatic & people want to believe you or You are so good at a specific skill set that people admire you so much that they will More +
A friend asked me how my trip to the US went. I told her it was intense. She asked what that meant exactly. And I asked her if she had ever seen a Bollywood movie. I guess that describes what I mean by intense. Love, despair, tears, joy, obstacles, hope, more despair, more obstacles - including those More +
On a scale of 1-10 from 0 = 0 numb to 10 = 10 emotional overkill I guess I am at 11 :-) I do hope it is just the jet lag and that I will go back to 9 again soon :-) Planned for Thai massage tomorrow! More +
During my week in San Francisco I slept approximately 15 hours in one entire week. It wasn't just the jet lag. All the voices in my head just couldn't stop talking to each other. Yet I have never been able to sleep on a long haul flight. I usually watch 6-7 movies before arriving back in Germany. This More +
The aggregate of all emotions is hard to grasp. I won't go into the details but I ran pretty hard into a few walls at work this week. Yet I received wonderful advice from colleagues functioning as my life mentors when I needed them. Steve's advice: Stay within the framework and set the scene / More +
Welcome to my Journey! There are times when you look backwards and you see the pieces fall together. I am actually writing the first few months of this blog by going back in time. It all starts with a series of events that caused me to do some serious thinking about my personal life and my personal More +