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Geh Deinen Weg – aber nicht allein!

Joerg Kuehn · Sep 27, 2023 · Leave a Comment

Vor zwölf Jahren schien mein Leben von außen betrachtet erfolgreich und positiv zu sein. Ich hatte einen guten Job als Supply Chain Direktor bei Procter & Gamble, bekam ein ansehnliches Gehalt und lebte in einer schönen Immobilie mit Blick auf die Skyline von Singapur. Aber ich merkte, dass irgendetwas fehlte. Unter der glänzenden Oberfläche fühlte ich mich unerfüllt und gefangen, man könnte schon fast sagen: verloren. Nach einer Reihe spektakulär gescheiterter Beziehungen, einer angeknacksten Gesundheit und ‘gefesselt’ im goldenen Käfig meines gut bezahlten Jobs stand ich an der Wegkreuzung einer klassischen Midlife-Krise.

Irgendetwas musste passieren. Am 5. Mai 2012 machte ich mich daher auf eine 800 Kilometer lange Reise den Jakobsweg entlang nach Santiago de Compostela – und zu mir. Ich hatte keine Idee, was mich erwarten würde, doch es übertraf alle meine vagen Vorstellungen. Denn es stellte mich und mein Leben komplett auf den Kopf. Erst zerbrach mich der Marsch, dann baute er mich neu auf und gab mir letztlich den Mut, meinen eigenen Weg zu finden und zu gehen.

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Go Your Own Way – but not alone!

Joerg Kuehn · Sep 27, 2023 · 2 Comments

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?

Joerg Kuehn · Aug 30, 2023 · Leave a Comment

 

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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What really matters to you?

Joerg Kuehn · Jul 4, 2023 · Leave a Comment

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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Getting A Difficult Message Across

Joerg Kuehn · May 31, 2023 · Leave a Comment

You may remember the newsletter about a client of mine who worked through a highly emotional situation with “the dictator.” Only a short while later, I encountered another client with an even trickier situation.

Chris is a calm and friendly 35-year-old manager, who struck me from the beginning as someone who was very kind. In a “fast-track” career, he had risen rapidly through the ranks of a medium-sized Swedish consumer electronics company. Based in the UK, he was now leading its global supply chain operations.

Chris absolutely loved his job. He viewed it “like a hobby” where he enthusiastically “created top-notch service solutions” for his clients. His passion for the job had him working 60-hour weeks for the last eight years. By his own admission, he’d been close to burn out two times and was currently doing double duty… handling two important job assignments within the company.

It presented a massive challenge.

Chris was not getting along well with his interim boss, the Managing Director of UK operations. “He attacked me personally” Chris said. The strained relationship created an unprecedented level of emotional turmoil, anger, and frustration in Chris.

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