Result Archive - Democratizing Success

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September 9, 2024

Your attitude makes the difference: success or non-success - the choice is yours

What is the very first thing an entrepreneur has to do when starting a business? Sell. You have to sell. When I started out as an entrepreneur, I did everything I could to sell. So I prepared myself for appointments in detail by looking at who the customer was,...

Torsten Osthus

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April 29, 2024

How learning will change - AI as an opportunity

Will your job still exist in the future? Perhaps artificial intelligence will soon be able to take over essential elements of management knowledge today ... According to IBM, 40 percent of people will have to be retrained in the next three years because AI (artificial intelligence) will take over their jobs....

Torsten Osthus

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April 15, 2024

What is your vision for the future?

"Torsten, what are you doing in Germany?" an American investor in the States asked me, referring to the weak digitalization, the jumble of bureaucracy and the chaos in the energy sector. And he was quite concerned about the future viability of German politics and the economy. "We are putting the ladder on the...

Torsten Osthus

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April 3, 2024

By principle instead of plan: what makes your leadership strong

"I'm sorry, I wrote three emails to product development, but they didn't manage to adapt the product any sooner. That's why I couldn't deliver the customer's order on time," the employee explains to his line manager. If such statements are made in your department, they are a symptom of a lack of clarity. Clarity about...

Torsten Osthus

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March 20, 2024

Digitalization: Are we seeing results?

Digitalization is changing everything and we are already on the second half of the chessboard. Anyone who knows the story of the chessboard and the grain of rice knows what this means: exponential growth, not faster speed. If we don't proactively shape this change, it will inevitably destroy our business models, as we have seen with some companies...

Torsten Osthus

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June 19, 2023

The worst results come with the best intentions

"Unfortunately, the project did not go well. So that we can learn from it, I would like to ask you all to look for the central mistakes and suggest possible solutions for the next projects," says the boss to his team. Repeat offenders in the team Naturally, he was upset that his employees had messed up the project....