This is the amount the world has spent in 2022 for world military expenditure. The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) published this data today. This is a 3.7% growth in real terms, a 19% growth over the last 10 years. US, China, India, Russia and Saudi Arabia together account…
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United States of America…
When started my business life, I worked for American companies and in the decades to follow I continued working for American companies. As a consequence, I had the opportunity to visit the US many many times (100+ times). I could visit many cities and travel the country from left to…
Is it important to be ethical and respectful?
Over the last couple of days I am following a public debate about the owner and CEO of the Springer Verlag, Mathias Döpfner. He has always been a controversial public figure and at the age of 60 he is still leading and owning one of the most influential publisher companies…
Bojan Slat – having impact
On 7th April the Ocean Cleanup non-profit organisation accomplished a milestone of 200.000 kg of plastic removed from the ocean.It all started as a vision from Bojan Slat to get plastic out of the Ocean in 2011, when he was 16. Since then, he achieved with his team to introduce…
Easter marches
A quick one: During the easter time we have a tradition across the world to demonstrate for peace. These marches are called “easter marches” and during different times they had been more or less popular.With a focus on the Ukraine war, these marches are demonstrating for peace and ending the…
Climate activists
Easter season is approaching and you and your family/friends are getting ready for vacation. You get your holiday approved by your employer, you are selecting a place to go – ie North Italy – and you start to plan. As a matter of fact, you decide to take the car.…
Climate…What I have to do with it (and maybe you…)
Over the last 10 years I fundamentally changed my view about climate, climate change and what I have to do with it.Before this time I was a solid bystander. I was able to contribute in discussions but in essence it was something that had not much to do with me…
Getting into politics
Looking across the world the established parties in many many countries are having trouble to get something done and execute their promises from the elections. Consequence is, that change isn’t progressing and the satisfaction levels of the population are not very good. Examples are manifold…UK struggling to get anything decided…
The power of moving forward & going slow
For a long time I had a mantra with a headline that goes “Cant stop me”. That was in the job, in sports, in learning, in anything I did. And listening to David Goggins these days it goes “Cant hurt me” which ultimately means that you never give up and…
Going shopping & the environment
Just a very quick one for all of us – if you go shopping into your grocery have a look where the products are coming from and just by your own judgement decide whether it makes sense to buy actually blueberries from Spain or asparagus from Peru. There is no…