Anyone who is or has been brought up in the catholic way (like me) is often dealing with questions of faith ... And in the quest to KNOW he / she believes less and less with increasing life experience
Basically, I still believe in the good in life, and especially I believe in people and their networks. Whenever it is possible to work together in a trustful and goal-oriented manner across professional and geographical boundaries, success always follows. It applies worldwide: The "chemistry" must be right! If it is not, there will always be conflicts and frictional losses. That's why my highest principle is an honest and open way of dealing with each other, often spiced with a pinch of humour. I'm for plain language - and I don't like it when people beat around the bush or play games that are primarily aimed at gaining personal advantages.
More than ever, and although digital skills have become essential for every human being I believe in the analogue world - professionally and privately. Especially the topics I have dealt with more or less throughout my entire professional life, e.g. …
- How do people learn?
- What kinds of qualifications do they need in order to find work and make a living from it?
- What is necessary to make teams work together productively?
- What do we learn from failures and how do we deal with them?
– sind persönlich, oft sehr individuell und kontextabhängig.
… have often a very individual and contextual background. People and their individual preferences are rarely black or white, on or off, up or down. Often, we are somewhere in between, sitting on a fence, facing the unexpected. At New Years Eve 2019 nobody would have thought that 3 months later the world and its future prospects would look completely different. An invisible virus changed our life, killed thousands of people and made millions tumble into a personal and economic disaster.
Probably all of us are hybrids – analogue in our emotions, and “being digital” (1) more and more in our professional life. Of course, I use the Internet and many of the opportunities it offers to communicate, to inform myself and to learn. "The digital" will occupy an even larger space in our lives in the future - keywords like "work 4.0", "autonomous driving", "smart home" - there's no stopping it. But I see people first and foremost. They may be increasingly using digital instruments, but at heart they still tick "analogue". They need "real" social contacts - that's why they like to meet and talk to each other, that's why it's important that teams still meet and really interact. And we should never leave our family and friends behind! Everybody can study the consequences of social distancing and social deprivation: The Covid-19 lock-downs shows us what happens to US when we do not see and touch each other for a while.
Probably you will not believe that this book has been published already 25 years ago: Nicholas Negroponte: Being Digital. Negroponte describes long before the Iphone was introduced how the telecommunication, computing and television “implode” into one device.
