Letting go would be my first answer. But it's not that simple. For more than thirty years I've built or advised companies. International trade, software development, marketing, strategy. One thing always led to the next. I kept learning more. How organizations, markets, people work. And also why at some point they stop working.

Over time the patterns became increasingly clear. In offices, in organizations, in entire markets, power structures and dynamics developed that nobody really planned. Over the last twenty years, technological innovations have fundamentally changed how knowledge is created and decisions are made. I saw how convictions turned into constraints, and a central question wouldn't let go of me again: What is the insight we gain from all of this? Is it a gain?

Nobody can answer that in general terms. The path to insight is always personal. For me, it works best through exchange with people and writing. Since my school days. I learned by writing. I only became truly aware of it later. By now it takes up an ever-growing part of my work. This is how complex topics become tangible for me. And I've found, for others too. As an advisor, in sparring, as a mentor.