Dear reader,
Bosses, complainers, egomaniacs – everyone knows strenuous colleagues.
How to deal with them?
Our colleague Maren Hoffmann investigated this rather everyday question – and spoke to
Rick Brinkman
and
Rick Kirschner
.
The two communication experts specialize in toxic colleagues and have identified a good dozen types of obnoxious people.
"We're not saying you can change people. But you can change the way they react to you," the two say, and recommend: "If you know how to approach obnoxious people, you can go to the belong to a few who bring out the best in these people."
Read here why people become obnoxious in the first place, how to deal with, sorry, real assholes, why it sometimes helps to talk about football and what the best lifehacks for everyday office life are.
The business news of the day:
BMW sold 2.4 million cars: BMW sold
almost 100,000 fewer vehicles last year than in the previous year.
The carmaker announced today that sales of all-electric vehicles have more than doubled.
10 percent of the vehicles sold were electric cars, this year it should be 15 percent.
Icon of the US industry splits up:
The US group
General Electric
follows the example of the competitor Siemens - and separates its business areas into independent companies.
As of today, the medical technology division is listed as
GE Healthcare
on the US technology exchange Nasdaq.
Our colleague Helmut Reich took a look at why this is giving investors hope.
FTX founder Bankman-Fried pleads not guilty:
The founder of the collapsed
cryptocurrency exchange FTX
has pleaded "not guilty" to all eight charges at a first hearing before a US court.
The US authorities accuse
Sam Bankman-Fried of
"fraud of epic proportions" and money laundering.
The trial is scheduled to begin on October 2, according to the Wall Street Journal.
What else kept us busy:
VW presents ID.7 prototype:
The
electronics and technology trade fair CES
for the general public starts in Las Vegas tomorrow, Thursday.
Volkswagen
announced in advance
that the electric ID family would get a new flagship in the summer.
The group presented a near-series study for the ID.7 in Las Vegas.
Even if the prototype still hides its final form with brightly colored paintwork, the rather conventional sedan cut is already clearly visible.
You can read more about the ID.7 and what else is moving the CES here.
Family companies create more jobs than DAX companies:
In the past ten years, the 26 largest family companies in Germany have added more than twice as many jobs as the 26 DAX companies without a dominant family in the background.
This is the result of a study published by the University of Mannheim on Wednesday.
According to this, the Schwarz Group
created most of the jobs
.
190,000 jobs were created at the group, which includes the supermarket chains
Lidl
and
Kaufland
.
The HBM winter school: Management classics to start the year
How often do your employees say what they really think?
Many companies have included diversity in their goals - and measure managers against it.
But all efforts fail if managers do not also address the culture.
Psychological security is the most important management task of the future.
Amy Edmondson from Harvard Business School coined this concept, researchers from the University of St. Gallen present new findings and show how security is becoming a success factor for various teams.
Read Part 3 of the Harvard Business Manager Winter School here.
My recommendation for the evening:
The next star in the realm of Biontech investors:
The list of
Gloria Seibert
fans is long and illustrious.
The Biontech major shareholders
Thomas and Andreas Strüngmann
, their supervisory board chairman
Helmut Jeggle
, MIG-Fonds founder
Michael Motschmann
, ex-Merck CEO
Stefan Oschmann
or McKinsey doyen
Herbert Henzler
- they all support their start-up
Temedica
since 2016. The founder - not yet 30 years old at the time - inspired her with her vision of personalized medicine: Everyone receives the therapy that not only suits their condition, but also suits their life.
She has already collected more than 40 million euros for her digital health platform - and now has an impressive list of customers.
Our colleague Eva Müller met Seibert.
I wish you a nice evening!
Yours, Oliver Hollenstein
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