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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…
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Where do you want to get to?
What the organisation genuinely needs from a negotiation is often the harder conversation. 🔹 What does success look like? 🔹 What trade-offs are we willing to make? 🔹 What must this negotiation actually deliver? That is the kind of conversation that tends to surface real disagreements. Better to do so before the table than across…