After my MBA studies at the University of Wisconsin I got a job as VP of Production and R&D in one larger international company in North Carolina. Together with my staff we were responsible for planning and building factory plants around the world. Top management also included the VP of IT, a very central position for our type of operation. We hired the best and most knowledgeable people possible from the best universities, but to no avail. Also the last one that was hired did not live up to our expectations. Departments did not get their things on time and there were constant misunderstandings. So again we had to look for a new chief of IT.

In my younger days I took various educations starting with engineering then management and after that an MBA where my focus was on marketing strategy and consumer behaviour. After that I also studied sports psychology. I studied out of curiosity. I wanted to see the bigger picture and how different areas worked, in the hope of becoming a good manager and leader one day. After finishing my engineering studies I got a job as a planning engineer responsible for purchasing and setting up production lines. The plans were based on the plans handed to me by my marketing colleagues. My experience was that I did not understand my marketing colleagues and they definitely did not understand how their constant last minute changing of plans affected our production flow and thus the costs.