When everything depends on one person, everything depends on one person

Why hero-culture is a leadership trap

Oct 26 • 

Thomas Rauch

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Stop being customer-driven. Start being customer-centric.

The difference between hearing your customers and truly understanding them.

Oct 18 • 

Thomas Rauch

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From "Permit A38" to Progress: cutting bureaucracy without losing control

A hands-on guide for leaders to identify bloated routines, simplify them radically and see measurable gains in decision speed and innovation capacity.

Oct 9 • 

Thomas Rauch

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September 2025

Escaping the Meeting-Tourism Trap

Why we drift into too many meetings (and stay there)

Sep 28 • 

Thomas Rauch

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Done > Perfect: Why people overdeliver and how leaders can break the cycle

Turning overcommitment into clarity, accountability and results.

Sep 21 • 

Thomas Rauch

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We still fear decisions, even when no one remembers why

The "monkeys and bananas" myth and what it reveals about decision-making in organizations

Sep 14 • 

Thomas Rauch

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OT Change and Incident Management: How to avoid the Titanic moment

Why OT needs structure more than ever and what ITIL can (and can’t) teach us about handling change, failure and recovery in industrial systems

Sep 7 • 

Thomas Rauch

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August 2025

The Dead Internet Theory: Red Pill or Blue Pill?

Why today’s web feels more like machines talking to each other than people connecting and why it matters for everyone online.

Aug 24 • 

Thomas Rauch

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React like Maverick at the Edge, plan like Mission Control in the Cloud

How Smart Factories combine local speed and strategic oversight

Aug 17 • 

Thomas Rauch

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The 10 Commandments of Industrial Digitalization

Digitalization doesn’t start with tech. It starts on the shopfloor.

Aug 2 • 

Thomas Rauch

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July 2025

ChatGPT loses to an Atari 2600 in chess... and that's perfectly fine.

Understanding LLMs starts with knowing what they’re not.

Jul 17 • 

Thomas Rauch

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HolOps: Bridging the IT/OT divergence like McClane and Farrell

A practical mindset for running connected systems across departments, domains and disciplines.

Jul 6 • 

Thomas Rauch

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