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CEO Espresso highlights from 2025: Strategy
What distinguishes a strategy on paper from one that is actually lived? We asked CEOs from very different contexts exactly that. Their answers varied, but they all revolved around one theme: consequence. 🔹 Gunnar Pahnke, CEO of Azerfon: “Execution is directly linked to the bonus payments of all CXOs — over a three-year period. A…
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Entrepreneurship
Last night at Pitch & Pretzels, hosted at KPMG’s offices in Cologne, the focus was naturally on ideas. What problem does the startup want to solve?What market is it addressing? How big could this become?How convincing is the team?And, of course: how do idea, capital, and execution come together? But another question stayed with me:…
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CEO Espresso highlights from 2025: Culture
How does a leader know whether the culture is right? Not through the annual employee survey. Not through the values statement on the wall. But through what happens every day — or doesn’t. The answers from our interviewees were refreshingly concrete. 🔷 Guillaume Dubrule, CEO of Rexel Germany: “Do people dare to confront me with…