Some insights to my practicle team creation & leadership experiences accumulated during the last 25 years

Hi everybody. Are You alive and fresh again, so that Your eyes can safely make their journey through my 3rd post

? I mean, right now it is saturday morning here in São Paulo and last night was friday night, so it might be a little too early still for at least some of You ..... Don`t worry, You`re excused. I know You.  Leave my post besides and read it in 5 hours. 

Let me please at first give You some important general comments about my blog. When I started this blog exactly 3 days ago, I did not really read or understand a lot about the technical features of the blogger tool and the google functionality. 

I just identified it quickly as one of the leading tools for people running blogs and after having played 5 minutes with it, I decided, that it`s very easy to use it and that therefore I`d like it. Anyhow I did not want to become much more than a pure user of this tool. 

All the details, how it`s built and works etc. were truly spoken not at all of my interest. But after having done my first 2 posts and after having received a lot of fantastic feedback from wonderful people allover the world, I have been made aware of some general deficiencies, which definitely have origin in my very basic blogger tool know how. 

Many people would like to become followers of my blog directly here in blogger/google, but we couldn`t find out yet, how to enable this. Others found difficulties to place their comments directly into my posts in blogger. I am really ashame for that, but must I admit, that I have not the least clue yet, how to get this fixed. Why not do some "crowd brain funding" and appeal to Your experience with regards to these purely technical system questions? 

Maybe the one or other of You can easily give us blind fish the right hints, how to become a follower of my blog in blogger/google and how to access easily my blog posts for reading and commenting from anywhere in the internet. For all those, who for whatever reasons prefer this, You can also just follow me in linkedin and find my daily blog posts there as well. 

But I wouldn`t love, to find my blog in blogger soon looking the same as a graveyard. This refers to the joke, where 3 people participate in the burrial of a person and – standing at the open grave – one of them says to the others “I can`t understand this. He had more 80.000 followers”. 

And this little story leads me already to sharing with You a really  important learning experience, which I have made during the last 25 years of my career in general management  functions as Plant Manager, Managing Director, CEO and President for first class german industrial companies like Henkel, ElringKlinger, BOS, IWKA/Oystar, GEA Heat Exchangers and now - already since almost six years - for Vulkan at different places around the globe. 

What I can state clearly so far is, that as a General Manager nobody nowadays, in the modern, professional world, expects You to be an expert in all business dimensions related to Your function and company. 

With todays complexity, high velocity and dynamic of our businesses, to be true, hardly anybody would even be able, to accomplish this. This can still work only, when people start very early in a company and climb up the career ladder there during long enough years, maybe all their life long. 

But I think, even this management model has more and more become very seldom and rare in our modern industry world . So, how to become able to dominate such multiple functions within the general business responsability safely and without permanent risk of heart attack, alcoholism and repeated divorce? 

The only, but really easy and secure way, to master this challenge, is to find the right, qualified, experienced and trustful people, each of them an excelent expert in his area of responsability, to form a strong and highly motivated team with all of them, to give each of them authority, resources and support enough for becoming able, to do his job efficiently with high productivity,  and to constantly motivate and inspire this whole team for seeking ceaselessly new challenging targets and outstanding results. That`s it. So easy - please read the sentence again and confirm each single constraint mentioned.

I have personally already had the luck and opportunity, to learn this in practice during more than 25 years in several totally different – all of these global leaders in their business segment– industrial companies of totally different structures, sizes, company cultures and in totally different industries, market segments, global locations and cultural, economical and political environments. 

Thus I have gained plenty of good (and bad) experience with setting up such strong, highly motivated and excellently performing teams, which gives me really extreme pride and satisfaction. With this background described, I am showing You In this post a picture of my current management team, together with which I run successfully our fantastic and highly successful - even in Brazil and despite the Covid-19 crisis - company Vulkan do Brasil (200 employees, global product development & engineering center for our industrial division, highly efficient, lean, agile factory, 3 different aggressive sales divisions with different sales area responsabilities; for our main Division Vulkan Drive Tech (industrial, mechanical power transmission solutions and services) we have been named responsible from out of our company in Itatiba, São Paulo, and our sales & engineering offices in Rio de Janeiro, Bogotá, Colombia, and Mexico City, for Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean and all South America. 

But don`t worry. I wil definitely not (ab)use my lovely blog for doing boring company propaganda. Anybody interested in more details about our familly held, globally acting german Vulkan Group, our more than 3000 products for practically uncountable applications in all different kinds of industries, can look up such information by himself on our corporate webpage www.vulkan.com or just contact me directly by email, on the fone or whatever other communication channel. If necessary, You can find my contact data in linkedin. OK ? You`re fine with that? Not sleeping again yet? Here still? 

While writing this new post, I am listening to piano concerts from good old Mozart, one of my favorite classical music composers. But instead of making me relaxed, Mozart makes me quite angry right now. Due to this damned Covid-19 crisis, I needed to finally cancel my wife`s and my own holiday trip to Europe, originally scheduled (flights, rental car, hotel, entertainment, leisure activities in the south of Germany, Vienna, Prague, Budapest and Dresden, all already firmly booked since a year ago) for july. 

One of the highlights of these unbelievably beautiful vacations should have been our attendance of a Mozart concert in the famous Vienna Opera House. Oh shit..... Gone now. Forget it.  Hope we can re-take all these fabulous plans next year once again. Please cross Your fingers for my wife and me. 

One more crazy comment. People normally can`t believe when they drive in my car with me and hear my mostly playing music playlist, which mixes Rolling Stones titles with Mozart piano pieces. 

This is a a very stimulant combination of power and equilibrium, of speed and slowness......You might want to try this out by Yourself one day. 

Let me know, whether this made You feel as delighted as it does for me. Thank You for having accompanied my blog once more today. We`re a strong and motivated team now, agreed ? 

I count on each of You guys ! Wish You lot`s of fun, relaxation, time with Your family & friends and whatever else You have planned for this weekend. 

Don`t forget, to look up my post number 4 tomorrow. And please – follow me in blogger and linkedin and give me plenty of comments. If just positive ones, no problem. 😎 

Greetings from my faithful assistant and companion Luke as well. And please remember: After action – Satisfaction. Bye for today.......See You back here again tomorrow.