Today’s calendar had just one meeting: the final alignment with Michael Lang, who will take over SAP Development Learning on January 1st. It feels good to hand over the team in excellent hands. 😀 I started to create greeting cards with my best pictures and texts re-mixed from insightful quotes in 2020. My family’s image […]
Let it go… I’ll start my sabbatical on January 01, and it’s now time to let go. After 79 full-time quarters, I want to spend a six-month sabbatical sensing the now and exploring the next. My first daughter was born 20 years ago – my younger daughter, two years later. My wife and I decided […]
Thank you to the people who sent me best wishes for my birthday.If I look at the balance between burdens and resources, I observe that the amount of burdens has increased due to the COVID-19 crisis. It’s important to practice self-care and to build resources for physical, mental, and social health. As a manager, I’m […]
For most of us, it’s the first time that we have to work for a more extended time from home. I usually work one day per week from my home office. For all of us, it’s the very first time that we have to confront a global pandemic. Everyone faces this new situation differently and […]
“When was the last time that you did something different?” This is one of the questions we asked our participants during our interactive SAP development kick-off Silicon Valley session. “And what did you learn from this experiment?” was the question that helped to reflect on the outcome of doing something different. Plenty of discussions between attendees […]
Sharing and receiving feedback is essential to learn as an individual, as a team member, as a leader. And like the two sides of a coin, you can offer positive or negative feedback. From research we know that the factor that makes the greatest difference between low and high performing teams is surprisingly the ratio between […]
This has been the key message of my presentation at the Future Learning Lab day organized by Isa Zöller and the IDEA team consisting of learning innovators from different SAP board areas. I had the pleasure to share some insights from the Future Learning Lab history. Additionally, I invited the participants to share their learning […]
I’m an optimistic world citizen and interested in data visualization. Therefore, “Factfulness” the latest and sadly the last book by Hans Rosling has resonated well with me. “Factfulness” is a manifesto to see the world how the world really is: based on facts and figures and not on how we believe the world looks like. […]
The world is full of books that promise a secret sauce for success. However, what percentage of your success is based on your own performance? Most people completely overestimate their own contribution as Rolf Dobelli points out in his book “The Art of Good Life“. Fortune begins with your birth year and birth place that […]
I recently had the opportunity to present one of my favourite books at a public reading at the library of my home town. My first name “Felix” means “lucky, successful” in Latin. Therefore, I feel somehow committed to act as a happiness ambassador. Hence, I opted to read from “The Art of the Good Life” […]