This week was quite special. After more than 28 years, Detlef Hessler is leaving us for a well-deserved retirement. He had started at Pünder, Volhard, Weber & Axster in 1994 before the merger. He has worked for me for the last almost 20 years. Most of the time it was quite good, the rest was fantastic. He was always at the interface between IT, Finance, Controlling, and HR, as well as responsible for data exchange with the authorities. He structured, simplified, standardised, and automated like hell. He leaves behind a well-ordered house and I am glad that Paul Haas will succeed him. But I miss Detlef already.
Katrin and I facilitated a Code of Conduct workshop for our notorious and infamous Innovation & Best Delivery Hub team. Many thanks to our great colleagues for their friendliness, openness, commitment, and inspiring discussions. We’re a great firm with a great culture, but to always be at the forefront of ethical, responsible, and sustainable business we must all constantly campaign for the Code.
Today is European and World Cycling Day. I’ve been taking advantage of the nice weather all week and cycle to the office every day. It’s pleasantly fresh in the morning and not too warm in the evening. What’s best is when I cycle home – upstream – that I’ve really leave the office behind. That’s the biggest challenge for me when working from home: Switching off when the working hours are over.
Parts of the notorious Clifford Chance Innovation & Best Delivery dream team enriched by our fantastic HR Employer Branding team at the PMN Innovation Day 2022: Nicola von Tschirnhaus, Anja Schäfers, Christiane Müller-Haye, and Dr. Sandra Thiel.
Sven, Nicola, Anja, Christiane and Sandra (l.t.r.)
Christiane moderating
Break with advertisments
Nicola and Anja
Stunning view from Oosten
Anja presenting
View to the east side
Thank you for having us, and arranging everything, incl. the phenomenal location Oosten and the wonderful weather, Claudia Schieblon.
I haven’t posted anything substantial in the last few weeks. I was speechless in the face of global challenges. Is it allowed to have fun and go out? Does one even dare to go on holiday? Does going to work still make any sense at all? Is it despicable to want normality? The climate crisis will be with us for decades to come, the pandemic may have just peaked and the Ukraine war has been raging for six weeks now.
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Digitalisierung und Innovation in Kanzleien – Sandra Thiel and I wrote about our notorious Innovation & Best Delivery Hub and our fantastic multidisciplinary teams working in interdisciplinary ways.
Heute vor zwei Jahren wurden keine fünf Kilometer Luftlinie von hier neun Bürger mit Migrationshintergrund in einem rassistischen und rechtsextremen Terrorakt von einem paranoiden Deutschen ermordet. Sein Name ist unwichtig.
Ihre Namen dürfen nicht vergessen werden: Gökhan Gültekin, Sedat Gürbüz, Said Nesar Hashemi, Mercedes Kierpacz, Hamza Kurtović, Vili Viorel Păun, Fatih Saraçoğlu, Ferhat Unvar und Kaloyan Velkov.
How I would love to write about our rebranding in Best Delivery: „Innovation is Action“ and what it is all about. Our super interesting projects with clients. Our progress in applying AI and automatically processing the insights gained. Real end-to-end processes.
Innov…mpfen is Action
Or cheering about the new federal government. I am a fan of Angela Merkel, but 16 years was enough. My children were shocked that men can also become Kanzlerin. A former colleague is the first female Interior Minister. And a doctor, health policy expert, and epidemiologist is the Minister of Health – many had wished for that, me included. The same number of female and male ministers.
But no, I still have to call for vaccination. Booster vaccinations are doing really well (17%) in Germany. Also the first and second vaccinations of 12 to 15-year-olds. I also think the STIKO recommendation for 5 to 11-year-olds is sensible and correct.
But the overall rate of being fully vaccinated has still not reached 70%. That is too little. Therefore, get vaccinated (and boostered) if you can! Washing your hands, keeping your distance, and meeting as few people as possible and bearable also helps.
#ZusammenGegenCorona
Hat tip goes to Oliver, another Sven and many others for initiating this.
Please excuse this rant. But I’m really annoyed. I’ve been on the road for the last three weeks. In Italy, my vaccination certificate was scanned at every opportunity. Most of the time they wanted to see my identity card as well. They also checked me in Switzerland, Düsseldorf, and Hamburg. But here in Frankfurt and the surrounding area, almost no one cares whether you’ve been vaccinated, recovered, or tested. Only in two restaurants that opted for 2G were they looking for my certificate. In one rather unwillingly, in the other conscientiously. I can’t remember who last asked for my contact details or at least had a paper form available (apart from my favourite Italian restaurant and my hairdresser) – they all refer to QR codes to the Luca app. No sensible person with an IT background would go along with Luca.
Kids aren’t „supposed“ to wear masks in school anymore. Star football players, former left-wing icons, and philosopher-pop stars talk about long-term consequences and vaccine damage or that they would never vaccinate children (against Covid) because this would destroy their „natural“ immune system or because vaccination is only for their own protection.
That. Is. All. Wrong.
Folks: The incidences are shooting through the roof. Yes, even fully vaccinated people can infect others. That’s no surprise. If more were vaccinated, there would be fewer recipients. And fewer strong spreaders. And wearing a mask, washing your hands and being careful is still the order of the day. That’s not so hard after all.
One bright spot is the German Corona Warn app: My mother and child #1 were informed in the app that because of their age and vaccination date (mother) or vaccine (child) they should get a booster vaccination now.
