This year started with the pandemic of Covid-19 strongly locked our lives. It will remain a personal challenge to forecast the opportunities for the year and even more a challenge to set aims. However, more than ever my aims requires to be fluid and should push my personal development. In career terms, I will continue…
Review 2020
While I am reading my aims for 2020, I was more than certain that this year would be different and unforeseen year with the pandemic. Especially, as it is an global pandemic I haven’t experienced such a volatile environment. In terms of my career aims, I found a final department and my first in the…
INspiring future
it’s been 17months since I started my full-time job at Daimler in the INspire trainee-programme. On this day, I decided to conclude my experience as I decided to move up in my final role as a project member for digitalisation. Since the beginning I was sharing some insights from my very first project in Berlin….
Role of Leadership during Covid-19
The following post has been published as an internal article. To avoid consent conflicts, certain information has been taken out. Please visit the internal Social Intranet page to read the full article. My sixth-rotation at the beginning of the year was my highlight: thanks to the project rotation, I ended up in the assistant office…
Aims 2020
This year is all about fostering the true values in a volatile environment. Rooting to some extends to feel credible and bold in the actions are crucial to making decisions. Especially this year will be a year full of decisions that will impact the path and the progress I make. With these expectations, I‘ll set…
Review 2019
This year is my fifth year of my website and my fifth year I am blogging publicly about my experiences and reflections. I am overwhelmed about the feedback and reach of this platform, also thanks to SEO of my website, listing my site as the second list on google search after my LinkedIn profile. This…
Cultural identity
In the past couple of days, I had the pleasure to expose myself in Asian culture, westerners would define it as ‚different’. the borderline in the separation of common and different is blurred in today’s society a have diverse extensions in the level of cultural influence. Often it is easy to be fascinated by the…
Emotional Leadership
As soon as we talk about leadership, we have either a role model in mind or set certain qualities to it. Working for an MNE, I have learned that, there are for sure qualities you see in true leaders and top-management. Especially the values charisma, empowerment and emotions are on the rise of true leadership….
True bonds
Recently, I was put into a thoughtful situation in which a very close one asked me a personal question. It was about bonding between close ones and what exactly are we contributing towards it. I thought about it and come up with three pillars, which are crucial for me and my relationships I have with…
INspire Meet up
Two weeks ago, I had the great pleasure to be participating in a 3-day cross-divisional training with other INspire Trainees in our company. Besides, the professional and personal development conducted by some very professional trainers, I have immersed in a diverse and fulfilling environment with the Trainee cohort. Key components of the Training were about…
The Berlin winter
What a blast of a time in Berlin. After spending four months in the capital, I leave with a total new perspective on livable cities and life quality in metropolitan areas. The merger of culture, contemporary and activism makes this city vibrant and heard by the people. My work-occasion as my first project in this…
Official Kickoff
After being already 3-month in my new role as an INspire Trainee, I officially had the kickoff for the programme with my fellow trainee colleagues. The reason why we had our official kickoff this week is due to the flexible entry date for our trainee programme. Some of the colleagues started already in October while…
Aims 2019
Over the time challenging myself with new tasks, I had developed a tendency to deal with a lot of work in a short time. This reduces the duration of my overall learning curve. Therefore, I want to take the projects in my work as a personal challenge to have a balanced work/work/life balance. The second…
Review 2018
First things first, this year has been incredibly challenging and blessed year for me. For my post last year, I chose an orange tree photo with the header to carry my fruits home. This is what I did. I had a fantastic time at Newcastle and graduated with a distinction and many many awards and…
10 Impressions as an Entrepreneur of New York City.
To experience NYC as a graduate of the master’s programme Innovation, Creativity and Entrepreneurship, entices to immerse in the entrepreneurial environment and start-up scene. In the following, I will list my ten impressions and takeaways as an Entrepreneur of NYC. 1. Hustling is a common skill. The first thing you will notice immediately is the…
Among the process of self-reflection
It has been a while since my last post. Which had multiple reasons, but the most significant is that I have a full-time job at Daimler Financial Services (soon: Daimler Mobility Services). The transition into the new environment required some time to settle in and adapt to the new environment, but so far I have…
Entrepreneurs with climate impact
Last week I had a fantastic opportunity to join a Climate-Kic 2-days Masterclass in Madrid. It was a masterclass to prepare mature start-ups to get ready for investors. In this masterclass I had the opportunity to meet about 20 start-ups operating in EU with the commonality of having climate-impact. Talking to these inspiring entrepreneurs, gave…
Grateful and empowered
I have shared a contact I made back in September 2015 with an HR-recruiter at the IAA exhibition. Back then, I didn’t expect that this conversation would change my life and the followed path of my career. Today, after almost 3 years, I am ever grateful for this contact. Because, my connection turned into my…
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After 89days or 2,136minutes and 135pages later, I have finally submitted my master’s dissertation in partial fulfilment of my M.Sc. in Innovation, Creativity and Entrepreneurship. It has been very intensive months, of which I had minimal time to enjoy the fabulous weather over the period of approx. 11 weeks and constantly over 30 degrees celsius…
Temporality and perspective
This week has been a seamless transition from being a full-time student to be a full-time corporate researcher. I have completed my last written exam of the second semester and with that, finished all lecture assessments for my master’s programme. At the same time, I started the third semester of writing my masters dissertation in…
Equiwatt Ltd – a reflection
On last Friday I officially completed my 100h-internship. I have to say, working in a future-tech startup is fantastic! The drive and scalability allow so many opportunities to develop a product that reaches the life of billions overnight. It remembers me to a book I have read called ‘Big bang disruption’. The fantastic thing is,…
Award-winning week
What a week! I am very proud to share that, very recently, me and my team were acknowledged with two amazing and overwhelming awards from Newcastle University. My team and I have been recognised as “highly commended for the Best Concept” category with WAKA Fruits Ltd. at the Startup Awards 2018. As if this were…
Advisory panel pitch
Two weeks back, my team and I had the opportunity to push WAKA Fruits Ltd to the next level. We initiated our first funding round by pitching in front of the Newcastle Univerity advisory panel. Within a timeslot of 30minutes and five other contestants, we pitched as the fourth group with a 12minutes pitch and…
Trivialisation of startup failure
Couple days back I had a conversation with Anke Euschen, CEO of PeCon-Net GmbH at a networking event about leadership qualities and enterprising mindset. She as an experienced consultant and psychology graduate helps over the past 20 years managers and C-level executives in their personal development. In our discussion, we covered a different topic as…
Legacy
It’s been eleven days since I went back home for some with my family and revitalising my business network, which I have missed over the past 8-months. Interestingly, I met many people from my close or former close environments such as my previous department at Daimler AG, or my career advisors. I met great people…
Chain mentoring
Mentoring is about acknowledging people and the most powerful tool of networking. It’s not about exploiting people’s power or time by having a predetermined purpose in mind, which is commonly misunderstood. For me is mentoring is about connecting through personal touch points, sharing passion, thoughts and mindset that is reflecting each other in different stages…
Internship at Equiwatt
The CEO of Equiwatt headhunted me for an internship at his tech-startup in the domain of AI-based smart home technology. In the interview, I was representing myself as a technology-driven generalist with fast-learning and as an allrounder. The CEO, COO and an advisor from the university conducted the interview. All three were impressed by my…
Hult prize – reflection
Last year in December I have participated at the Hult prize on Campus competition with 3 of my coursemates. We signed up for this two-day boot camp to come up with a solution as social entrepreneurs to make an impact on 10million lives by 2025. This year Hult prize was on energy. We came up…
WAKA fruits Ltd.
I have introduced WAKA in a previous post already. However, it is now the right time to introduce WAKA with all its values and USP properly. WAKA Fruits is a food-startup based in Newcastle upon Tyne. I am the co-founder together with 3 other course members from Germany, Indonesia and the UK as well as…
STARTUP scene in Newcastle
I am using this blog post to write about a unique experience I have here in Newcastle, which I realised after reflecting what it is. I am talking about the startup scene in Newcastle. It’s a goldmine of collaboration and disrupters with the university as the primary pusher. Companies such as Noveltea; Equiwatt and many…
DSP and Daimler networking trip
In the time period of the 19-22. Feb. I’ve visited Germany for my first DSP training called Start with success. The location was different to any other training in Laemmerbuckel, conducted in Stuttgart. It was one-day training on Tuesday, I flew back on Saturday and used the remaining time to stay with my family. Unfortunately,…
Aims 2018
After seeding and growing for the past 4 years, this year is the year where I will carry my fruits home. For 2018 my goals are clear. The first priority is to finish my master’s degree with the best student experience and make myself a rememberable name here in Newcastle. I want to challenge myself even…
Review 2017
I am back home at my working desk in Germany. Almost one year ago, I wrote on this table my aims for 2017. Reflecting on what I have achieved, I just can say – I smashed it! With having 5 profoundly empowering months at Daimler, I met great people alongside my daily routine and also took…
Reflection of semester 1
3 months has been passed, and the master program has already exceeded every expectation I had for this year. To sum up, I became elected course representative of my course for 28 students from 19 different nationalities. The diversity and their background are very breath-taking and exciting. I have a close relationship with all students, and the…
Off to Newcastle – again!
Finally! I am back in Newcastle and the first night in my accommodation. I rented a private studio in an private student accommodation. The first impression after coming back: nothing changed! I had a walk alongside the city centre and the stadium and just felt like I never been away. Just a lot wiser and…
Extrinsic motivation – Hoerbiger
From business model innovation in a international environment to a Tier 2 supplier. Yes, I am supporting as a vacationing worker the production plant Hoerbiger in my hometown. From having an average time of way to work of 1,5hours, it has been reduced to 10minutes walking or 2 minutes by bicycle. But it is exciting to…
Daimler AG – a cultural reflection
Daimler AG organisational culture is known for three things: driver for innovation and pioneering; pursuit of excellence and hierarchical decision-making process. Having said that, I experienced the change in these three fundamental pillars with the shift happening in the industry. Emerging companies such as Tesla and Chinese suppliers starting entering the future of mobility market. Tech- software companies such…
Reflection of being a ’Working Student’ at Daimler AG
Another 6 months at Daimler has been past and with that my time at GSP/RM. I cannot describe what I have learned during the time at Daimler, I would need hours just to write down the task and responsibilities I had during the past 12 months. However, I am glad to have such great working…
2017 aims
2017 is my final year of my Bachelor’s degree. By holding a conditional offer at Newcastle University, I have to finish my degree as soon as possible. My aims for this year, after having the successful year 2016, is to continue and exceed the success further. I will use my network at Daimler to build…
Review 2016
This year was the most exciting year since my graduation from school. I had a fantastic time in Newcastle and did 7 modules with first class marks; 3 societies and lots of international friends definitively the most out of it. I can also say, I have improved my English language skills and extended my vocabulary….
Reflection on Internship Daimler AG
6 months are past, and I am still at Daimler. I continued my work by being a 20h working student and supporting my team. It was the most intense and most satisfying 6-months in my work life. I had so many responsibilities and actively volunteered for any job I could take to learn a new…
Internship at Daimler AG
On Wednesday is my first day at Daimler AG as an International Business Development Intern. I had this motivational push through Kerstin Walther to apply for an internship at Daimler, of which I would benefit at a later stage in my life. The telephone-interview with two colleagues a few months back was great! I was…
Newcastle – I will come back.
I left Newcastle 4weeks earlier than anticipated. But, after submission of all my assignments I had no reason to stay in Newcastle anymore. I have also been on vacation, doing a Scotland road-trip with a friend coming over from Germany for a week. I left Newcastle without saying good bye, because I had a plan…
Newcastle – Half-time report
We have Easter break. Which means, I got one-month no lecturers and the university is not operating. I think it’s a good idea to wrap up the past 3,5 months here in Newcastle. Where should I start.. Well, I am very impressed by the University and the city! The campus is enormous, and the buildings…
Newcastle – let’s go
I’m flying on the 11th of January to Newcastle upon Tyne. A city in the Northeast of England close to the Scottish boarder. I am going to spent the next 6-months over there for an exchange semester for which I got granted with an ERASMUS scholarship. I am travelling with my course mate, from my…
Aims 2016
This year I will be experiencing my second stop and grow up culture in my life – the United Kingdom. I will stay there for 6months after 17years of absence in living. I am excited and set myself three goals for this year. First, take everything with you and make the most out of it….
Review 2015
learning outcome – Networks. Reflecting on this year with the three aims I set for 2015. I have unpredictably fulfilled all of them. I met new people through the internship and through the eye-opening realisation of the importance of networks from my best friend. I will try to maintain my network and build new connections…
IAA 2015 – The emission scandal
IAA 2015, a please in heaven for seeing the latest cars and tryouts with vast experience. I am visiting every year this exhibition, but this year is different. It’s because, it’s the first time that I have old working colleagues, representing the company on a massive stall at the exhibition – Volkswagen. But it is…
Reflection on VW Internship
DISCLAIMER: This reflection has been rewritten at 15.05.2016 as part of an assignment for Newcastle University using the STAR method (Situation – Tasks – Action – Results) Situation: 8 weeks internship at Volkswagen in Granada, Spain in Project management for a product launch event with a team of 28 VW employees + around 120 event…
New consultancy project
Consultancy made by students for microbusinesses in process optimisation and standardisation. After success pays off, my first fashion startup, I decided to start a consultancy together with some coursemates addressing microbusinesses. In our market research, we found out that many craftsmen are too busy with operational tasks, that they have no time to think about…