The Purpose of Stuff and Stuff about Purpose

Or why diversity is the ultimate leadership challenge for the future of work

Were you born in 1982, too? How does it feel to mark the beginning of one of the most influential generations of the presence? Global teenagers, generation Y, millennials — I wanted to investigate the technology patterns and their influence on my personal development. The result was the following technological hockey stick (Check out the complete Prezi for zoom-in features.)

This is to the MythBusters fans! During my personal digitalization history I have always been faithful to Nokia as a brand. It is an example well known and I want to use it to illustrate 3 common misperceptions about business innovation that constantly get in the way of productive innovation projects.

The 4 P's of being professional

This number makes corporate-startup co-operations sound easy. They are not. Bellow I've pulled together 5 tips generated from watching cooperation patterns over the past years that I hope will help start-ups, researchers, innovation, and business managers. If you are looking for examples of corporate-startup co-operations, read – and sign-in - for the Ambi-Vation Newsletter, a recognized corporate-startup matchmaker in Germany.

According to the company, Netflix currently has around 100 million subscribers, i.e. different paying customers. Some of them have kids and spouses, too. That makes probably around 250 million different profiles. And the magic of Netflix is, so they claim, that all of them provide a personal experience. You can read about the numerous technical ways, and really interesting ideas on personalization technology on the Netflix Techblog on Medium.org. But then again, so many people feel like me, and ask: Why did Netflix abandon its big heart mission?

It's the fourth day of Hannover Messe, the world's leading trade fair for industrial technology. The conference program counts about 2.000 Speakers. That's around 1 speaker every 100 visitors. Given the average length of the slots, this translates into at least 15 speeches to chose from every minute. That's a lot of speeches! And of all things I am the person that slowly melts down on a chair in front of a speaker with a well researched and professionally delivered passionate speech. I mean, who doesn't?!

7 years ago on this day a midwife brought me the daily and my newborn daughter Eva. It was a coincidence that the article about my company GymZap was printed on the day of her birth. That made a nice party at the hospital!

Ob das Zitat tatsächlich von Goethe stammt steht nicht fest. Wie bei der Erfindung der Elektrizität, des ersten Rechners, oder des ersten Autos wird diese Weisheit einigen Menschen zugeschrieben. Wie auch immer das sein mag, es stimmt. Für uns Gründer, sind Startups wie Kinder, wir bringen sie zur Welt, helfen ihnen beim Wachsen und hoffen, mal auf sie richtig stolz zu werden. Und damit dies wahr wird, brauchen unsere Startups auch Wurzeln und Flügel.

When British prime minister Boris Johnson wins a contest for a most offensive poem, people laugh and elect him for being natural and entertaining. He is a politician. His job is to practice diplomacy. When model Heidi Klum dances in a torn dress laying bare her underwear people criticize. Heidi is an entertainer. Her job is to be entertaining. The situations look different at first, but at a second glance they scream #bias.