Christmas Edition: The Greatest Conspiracy Theories

Roman — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 15:41:07 +0000

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The Greatest Conspiracy Theories

Roman — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 15:38:36 +0000

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The movie is better than the book

Roman — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 13:32:29 +0000

A great idea to use the Nolan chart for movies and books. Found on this great blog (Mr. Brames Blog).

Topmodels in the news (German)

Roman — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 06:04:47 +0000

Frankfurter Buchmesse

Roman — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 14:03:41 +0000

“The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is not young.” At the book fair in Frankfurt, we were lucky to spend some entertaining minutes next to the grand old man of German literature, Harry Rowohlt. Seconds after this image was taken Rowohlt spilled Mikael’s coffee over Roman’s shirt. He will never wash it again.

I would kill to be there!

Roman — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 06:46:27 +0000

Change hurts

Roman — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 15:00:51 +0000

Our little graph shows the process of change.
Nothing changes without movement. Movement causes friction. Friction causes pain. So no real change will take place if we don’t accept any pain as part of the change-process. This is true for large scale transformation of societies, and it’s true for personal development. So the question is not: how to change. The question is: Are you willing to take some pain?
Typically the announce of a new, say, Head of Marketing leads to lots of movement (hiring new ad agency, re-positioning etc), it stirs a lot of water, but you won’t expect a lot of pain. And therefore: also no real change. On the other end: endless meetings lead to a lot of pain but often no movement, because no one is willing to make a decision.

And the gold medal goes to…

Roman — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 12:08:29 +0000

Due to a complex formula not all sports that are fun to play are equally fun to watch. Even the most hard-core free diver would never indulge in a, say, four hour live broadcast of his sport. Meanwhile, it can highly rewarding to watch The Strongest Man in The World Competition, even if the idea of carrying a truck tire is not very appealing. Interestingly enough is soccer, arguably the most popular sport of the world, fun to play, but boring to watch.
We racked our brains to come up with something that is, somewhat, easy to master and fun to watch: sex and dodge ball. Sometimes dancing and boxing, too.