The power of coincidence

 Good afternoon all my readers and followers. I am late with my today`s post because I participated all morning today in an international online conference with Vulkan Lokring (https://www.vulkan.com/en-us/lokring) colleagues from Germany, Italy, US and some of my brazilian team members. 

We had a great 4 hours long exchange and discussion of experiences and we defined altogether some new strategic development projects for our group. 

Before this conference with our North American colleagues and us South Americans, our European colleagues had already earlier today held the same conference with our Vulkan Lokring colleagues in China and India. 

Thus in the end all experiences of our worldwide Vulkan Lokring development, engineering, manufacturing, distribution and sales organisation came together. That`s clearly the big advantage of an agile organisation like ours. We are big enough to really globally attend our customers on all continents, but we are at the same time still small enough, to keep processes lean and fast and to let all global key players of all different disciplines participate actively in all relevant events and decisions.

And it is funny, because this fits nicely to an article in a german newspaper, which I read this morning. Several highly successful business people answered the question there, which had been the major factors for their successful careers. One of the concordant conclusions of all interview partners was, that the unplanned, sudden coincidence of favorable circumstances were almost always decisive for success and happiness. 

But the coincidence of favorable circumstances alone is definitely not enough for guaranteed success. Like always in live, there are several important factors more. Success and happiness are definitely also a question of readiness, preparation, analytic capacity and speed of decision taking. 

I would rather say, that preparation - means the combination of know how and experience - and analytical capacity are the 2 sides of one coin. One without the other doesn`t match. And in the same way I see readiness and the ability for taking quick - but right! - decisions as the 2 sides of the other coin. 

Many people I have met were perfectly prepared, educated, experienced, had enormous know how, but were not analytically strong enough for detecting opportunities for successful projects. And several others did not make themselfes available (= ready) for doing certain things, no matter their desperation for taking quick decisions. 

We all know these typical cases from our professional and private life experiences and I am sure, that You all know lots of colleagues or team members, who suffer from these weaknesses. But this is exactly my point for saying, that a good team of different, multi experienced, multidisciplinary people can overcome all such difficulties by joining and using the particular strengths of the individual single team members.

That`s how we practice it in our daily work and how we did today during our international Vulkan Lokring conference and - by the way - in a nicely, harmonically working familly (like mine) You normally apply the same - not outspoken or formalized - rules. 

Looking forward to Your comments upon this short insight in my today`s agenda and philosophy.

See You back here in my blog again tomorrow.