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Exciting News: Launch of Go Your Own Way

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I am both humbled and excited to announce the launch of my book, Go Your Own Way.

This book represents more to me than just bound pages. It’s an earnest account of my personal journey toward self-discovery, encapsulating the invaluable support of many individuals who helped me along the way. Filled with compelling coaching tools and insightful case studies, I believe this book offers an engaging and thought-provoking read.

My hope is that the collection of heart-warming stories, combined with empowering ideas and practical guidance, will inspire readers to pause and reflect on their own life paths, focusing on what truly matters. I envision this book becoming a trusted friend, walking alongside you on this beautiful journey we call life.

The below short video summarises in a light-hearted way what the book is about and how it has come to be.

The book is now available through the websites listed here. Please don’t hesitate to order, as it will not only be a wonderful gift for yourself, but also for your friends and families, and with the approaching Christmas season, shipping times might be slightly longer than usual. But if you place your order now, the book will arrive in time for Christmas!

Thank you so much for being on this journey with me, and just as the pilgrims greet each other on the Camino de Santiago in Spain, I warmly extend to you a heartfelt BUEN CAMINO!

Joerg

 

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Go Your Own Way – but not alone!

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Twelve years ago, my life looked successful and positive from the outside. I had a good job as a senior supply chain director at Procter & Gamble, was paid a handsome salary, and lived in a high-end property overlooking the Singapore skyline. But something was missing. I felt unfulfilled somehow … lost and trapped. After a string of spectacularly failed relationships, with my health not the best, and ‘handcuffed’ to the golden cage of my well-paid job, I found myself in the middle of a classic midlife crisis.

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What is Your next SPRINT?

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In autumn 2007, while working as Supply Chain Director with Procter & Gamble, I applied internally for a job, which sounded interesting … and daunting. The role would be to lead the integration of the Wella business in Asia by harmonising all 1,500 employees onto P&G contracts and moving Wella’s Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system onto the P&G SAP platform. The job was far too big for me at that stage.

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The Power Of Creative Problem-Solving

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It’s 1.30pm on March 30th, 1983 when Holger Bethke and his friend Michael Becker arrive at a particular corner in Schmollerstraße in East Berlin. The house they are looking for is right beside the “death strip” … the area surrounding the Berlin wall (s.above).

Disguised as craftsmen in blue work suits, they carefully open the locked doors with a picklock, making as little noise as possible. Once they are in, they hide in the attic for nearly twelve hours, eating sandwiches, drinking schnapps, and smoking cigarettes. Their plan to escape across the Berlin-Wall is highly risky, daring and dangerous. But, if it works, it is also a compelling tale of innovation … pure genius really.

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What really matters to you?

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When I worked as Supply Chain Director in Procter & Gamble, every year we completed a loss analysis. To do that, we picked a specific skin-care product and leveraged a tool called value-stream-mapping to map out the whole supply chain for each of the components and ingredients on a large white-board. The captured flow could lead back more than 12 months, when some of the raw materials were prefabricated.

Then, we looked at all the steps in the supply chain which actually generated value. For example, when we mixed the ingredients, filled the jar, put a label on, and added a cap to close the jar. You can imagine the actual value-creation-time was only a few minutes, whereas there were weeks and months lost in waiting, transportation, as well as other non-value-added movements.

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