The 5 best personality tests (2025)
Personality tests are simple, inexpensive and provide reliable data for selection decisions and deve...
How to prevent teams from failing
Companies don't fail because of their products but because of ego clashes in the boardroom. Here...
The “Prisoners Dilemma” – emotions versus reason
How the EU can use game theory to navigate Trump’s tariff battles with strategy, unity, and smart re...
Fisker Ocean: How Owners Kept a Bankrupt EV Alive
Discover how the Fisker Owners Association saved the Ocean EV after bankruptcy, taking control of so...
Trump, signals from Greenland and Panama
Trump polarizes and sets new trends. Three other trends that are changing the automotive industry
Your annual plan has already failed. And that’s okay.
Plans often fail because the goals lack important context or the context changes. 4 elements of whet...
Ray Dalio: Recognize your abilities.
In order to realize "idea meritocracy" (let the best idea prevail) in the automotive indus...
Why car managers often do not accept severance payments.
Car managers are often offered severance packages that they then refuse to accept. There are reasons...
Good corporate decision-making processes.
Car legend Luca de Meo changed the decision-making processes at SEAT and Renault from the ground up ...
Tobias Bald (Panoff Consulting) – Agency and the only thing left for retailers.
Agency sales in car dealerships is changing the focus from selling cars to providing a service to cu...
Rosa Meckseper – Reality check on SMART MOBILITY.
SMART MOBILITY doesn't work because of its superhuman complexity. Industry expert Rosa Meckseper...
The structure of change, performance and learning programs.
Of course, at some point in your career you were responsible for managing a difficult business chang...
Ole Harms (VAIVA): Expertism.
Car manufacturers have solved problems through management capacities. Today, experts are needed...
Dr. Danilo Zatta: Automotive Pricing
Best selling author Danilo Zatta talks about innovative pricing strategies in the automotive industr...
No growth without pain
Muscle growth occurs after an intense physical challenge, such as weightlifting. The load must be gr...
Prof. Sabine Pfeiffer – Unrealistic memes hinder adaptation.
What are the consequences of the so-called double transformation for employees in the automotive ind...
Frank Pomereinke (hydra): Co-Creation and Future Skills.
Future Skills is exactly what is important in a country like Germany: learning faster, remaining int...
The tipping point of a change process.
Implementing changes using a frontal approach fails, costs a lot of money and often fails. It is mor...
Purchase decision Electric vehicle.
Car manufacturers produce excellent electric vehicles. But long-distance charging is more difficult....
The Chinese perspective on Germany
Isolating the European car market from Chinese manufacturers would have dystopian consequences for t...
IAA 2023 – EV, SDV, Chinese competitors
At the IAA today, the street scene is shown even less than in the past. A classic B2B trade fair. Lo...
5 dimensions of personal growth.
Research has identified 5 dimensions of personal development and learning acceleration
9+1 career-related and learning-speed-improvement assessment questions
8+1 test questions on the status of your own career and how to proceed
“It’s still enough for me”: The 2nd Mountain.
Many have successfully mastered their first career at 50. What lies ahead of them is the second moun...
Coaching@Scale in Software projects.
Car projects are complex, under time and cost pressure. The team workload is enormous. 5 points on h...
Overcomplexity
The complexity is simply too great. Think of controlling the integration of control units from diffe...
Five mentors that shaped the car industry.
Executive coaching and mentoring have inspired the careers and innovations of Benz, Ford, de Meo, Mu...
Helweg-Larsen, Hutchings (PBS): Serious Games.
Business games or serious games in the automotive industry can break down barriers and open up new s...
Six reasons the Electric Vehicle landslide will just accelerate
Following the scandal, however, Volkswagen made a remarkable shift towards electric vehicles (EVs). ...
The 15 Years Gap: Why New Tech Takes So Long to Reach the Masses.
Early vs. late adopters refer to how quickly we introduce a new technology. The focus is on the &quo...
Two strategies to ride out the AI avalanche.
AI agents are taking on more and more tasks better and better. Two long-term strategies for position...
How to become a Thought Leader.
To become a thought leader in a specialist domain, you only need these steps and discipline.
ChatGPT, the automotive industry, and the void in learning
The sheer volume of posts, tweets and videos explaining how to use ChatGPT shows the extent of the k...
