“Please listen carefully to this menu as the menu has changed”. “Your call is important to us but please leave a voice message”. “If you need more information go to www – dot – whatever dot com…” Sound familiar? Customer engagement automation is the first impression when engaging with a business. The rest is history. […]
I’m concerned. With a defense budget of $690 Billion, the US spends more money on defense and armor than China ($129B), India ($44B), Russia ($64B), UK ($57B), France ($58B), Germany ($43B), Korea… all together. That means that every US family is paying $6,200 per year to defend – what? In contrast, the US education budget […]
I’d like to expand further on an earlier post about the three priorities of a well run democratic government: Education, Infrastructure and Law. I made a short statement about separation of state and capital. In recent year I saw quite some interesting posts about ‘separation between state and economics’ or ‘separation between state and economy’. […]
CANCER IS A DISEASE OF THE MIND from Johns Hopkins AFTER YEARS OF TELLING PEOPLE CHEMOTHERAPY IS THE ONLY WAY TO TRY AND ELIMINATE CANCER, JOHNS HOPKINS IS FINALLY STARTING TO TELL YOU THERE IS AN ALTERNATIVE WAY … 1. Every person has cancer cells in the body. These cancer cells do not show up […]
With the ongoing struggle of the US economy, the inner unhappiness and the many questions arising every day in the public web, I was thinking back and forth over the past 2 years about the essence of democracy and the top priorities of a democratic leader. The list is obviously almost with no end. But […]
My LinkedIn account states: Member since: June 12, 2003 My LinkedIn ID is 8573 2003 – In My 2003 Konstantin Guerke, one of the LinkedIn co-founders asked me to join the network and give some feedback. His primary interest: Get some executives into the network, which so far was primarily consisting of engineers. To be honest, […]
I learned from my grandmother: “At one point in time capitalism is identically to communism. It is at the time when a tiny group of people control most of the assets of that society.” Are we there? I think raising minimum wage is only one more action where the small group takes control. The free […]
I love my yahoo mail account, which I use for spam and never have to worry it. Yahoo is so incredibly strict that most email doesn’t pass anyway. So I can actually find a response if I signup for a site I don’t know. Also I have set it up that all email older than […]
No question, Monaco hosts the most prestigious yacht show in the world. And being a “yachty” myself it is obviously the perfect match and pleasure to combine my social media business and this outstanding event. We will starting share impressions, moments, interesting exhibitions as well as trends and many other aspects over the next few […]
Take five chimpanzees. Put them in a big cage. Suspend some bananas from the roof of the cage and provide the chimpanzees with a stepladder. NOW – add a proximity detector, so that when a chimp goes near the banana, a water hose opens and the whole cage is thoroughly soaked. Soon, the chimps learn […]
When I first shared the idea of living to 180, my friends laughed at me and my kids rolled their eyes. It was indeed a crazy idea but there was way too much evidence of the possibility to not follow the thought. Recently Forbes talked about “The First Person to Live to 150 Has Already […]
Yes, we lost the leadership but maybe in the future there is no more single world leader. Maybe there are different leaders in different areas. We don’t need a global leader we need global collaboration. With connections across all countries we develop friends across all countries. And with friends across all countries we are less […]
Today – July 12 – is world population day I was thinking the other day about the growth of our population and what it really means. How can we deal with it and how far can we grow? I did the math: If we would take the space of the entire US and populate it […]
I was recently asked by members of the European Commission about my thoughts when looking beyond 2020. And since I love thinking about long term development, I felt I should share, at least an extract, publicly. 2020 and beyond Going beyond 2020 I see three plus one major developments. Two are already quite apparent one […]
There are people who live to fulfill their bucket list – I live to keep adding to it :) My Bucket list part 1 (Done) Ski down at least 5 different black slopes in the Alps Build my own house Own a Yacht Write a book Plant a tree Have kids See them do what […]