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Dennis Gotta

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avid traveller, curious about technology, life and the digital world

Munich and beyond
Joined March 2007
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Dennis Gotta
6 years
Halbtags Job. 12 Stunden.
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6 years
Abbreviation of the day: CFO, Chief Fixing Officer vs. CCO, Chief Complaining Officer #DutchHumour
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6 years
Dunning-Kruger effect: the least competent people often believe they are the most competent because they lack the very expertise needed to recognize how badly they’re doing.
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Dennis Gotta
6 years
"Every person in your company is a vector. Your progress is determined by the sum of all vectors." - Elon Musk
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Dennis Gotta
11 years
Wie nennt man es, wenn Menschen seltsame Kleidung tragen und exzessiv trinken? Köln: Karneval. München: Oktoberfest. Berlin: Wochenende.
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Dennis Gotta
6 years
Timeless insight on ... “Owning bananas”...
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Dennis Gotta
6 years
Convincing case to kill elephants in the open...
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Dennis Gotta
10 years
Disruptive Innovation outside of digital in old industries like manufacturing, energy, transportation is difficult... http://t.co/p9VfiFa6l1
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Dennis Gotta
6 years
Somewhere in the waves of change, you will have to attack the sturdy silos and difficult politics or you won’t create a twenty-first century organisation. – Kotter and Cohen
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Dennis Gotta
8 years
Ca 1mio Menschen lesen dieFAZ.Damit habe man die Zahl der intelligenten Menschen in diesem Land einigermaßen erfasst
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Dennis Gotta
9 years
People are frugal in guarding their property.Yet regarding time,they are most wasteful where it is right to be stingy http://t.co/ybbbo4wgNk
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Dennis Gotta
9 years
3D printing for model building - beta testing to start soon. Register at http://t.co/brnUyLEAPt #ubimake
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Dennis Gotta
10 years
Secrets, perfect information, planning and competition - differences between corporate and startup approach http://t.co/ie5uwbX2iM
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Dennis Gotta
7 years
“Wir freuen uns sehr, dass Sie sich heute morgen für die Deutsche Lufthansa entschieden haben.” #ironie @Kartellamt
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Dennis Gotta
6 years
“Intelligent individuals learn from every thing and every one; average people, from their experiences. The stupid already have all the answers." — Socrates
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Dennis Gotta
8 years
“If you want to see German efficiency, go to Switzerland.”
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Dennis Gotta
5 months
Recruitment is like Romance and employment is like Marriage.
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Dennis Gotta
8 years
A teacher affects eternity. He can never know where his influence stops. (Henry Adams)
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Dennis Gotta
5 years
“If you fall, I’ll be there.” (The floor) via @mahlo #jaac19
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Dennis Gotta
7 years
Agile meets Management: initiative backlog, teams outside hierarchy, move fast on reversible decisions #HBR
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Dennis Gotta
8 years
I like to pay taxes. With them, I buy civilization. (Economist Espresso: Quote of the day)
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Dennis Gotta
6 years
How did you go bankrupt?" Bill asked. "Two ways," Mike said. Gradually and then suddenly." (The Sun also rises, Hemingway)
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Dennis Gotta
5 years
Cheers to 2019, and to working hard at work worth doing
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Dennis Gotta
7 years
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Dennis Gotta
6 years
Die Überraschung ist sogar der Grund, weshalb es Führung gibt. Für den Alltag reicht Management. Aber in der Krise/Veränderung brauche ich jemanden, auf den ich mich verlassen kann, der sich festlegt, entscheidet. (Reinhard Sprenger)
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Dennis Gotta
5 years
Pre-Mortem: ask planners/executives to imagine that it is months into the future and that their plan has been carried out. And it has failed. That is all they know; they have to explain why they think it failed.
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Dennis Gotta
7 years
Talk is cheap...
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Dennis Gotta
14 years
"Try never to be the smartest person in the room. And if you are,I suggest you invite smarter people-or find a different room." Michael Dell
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Dennis Gotta
7 years
As long as you live, keep learning how to live.
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Dennis Gotta
10 years
On what happens when you begin to codify how a startup is made... http://t.co/6Zpbs7hkBY
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Dennis Gotta
6 years
Tough but true: “The real values of a firm are shown by who gets rewarded or let go.”
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Dennis Gotta
7 years
When a flower doesn’t grow, you better fix the environment in which it grows, not the flower itself.
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Dennis Gotta
5 years
Culture is the worst behavior which you tolerate in your organization.
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Dennis Gotta
6 years
Quite an exciting challenge: transforming our often rather traditional companies by adding a ‘digital’ mindset #digitaltransformation
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Dennis Gotta
3 years
Consider your job description a starting point: the bare minimum of the expectations
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Dennis Gotta
11 years
Overdue rant on the inflation of "innovation". #hbr http://t.co/53Jwfw7wBA
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Dennis Gotta
14 years
Thinking about games ... "Is life becoming one big role-playing game"? http://bit.ly/ahtE3Y (via @novaspivack )
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Dennis Gotta
6 years
On not communicating
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8 years
Confucius says...
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3 years
"Whenever you are stuck searching for the optimal plan, remember: Getting started changes everything." – @JamesClear
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Dennis Gotta
11 years
The moment you realize how many people actually attend an event? The queue for food... #DisruptBerlin
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Dennis Gotta
9 years
The hidden cost of watching “Gangnam Style”... http://t.co/myP76HiEoU
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Dennis Gotta
5 years
Pessimists are usually right, optimists are usually wrong, but most great changes were made by optimists (via @tomfriedman )
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Dennis Gotta
13 years
Ultimate threat by social networks is to middle managers: no longer needed to convey messages up&down the organization? http://t.co/pbXFsLb
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Dennis Gotta
5 years
“The power and gas division will be renamed gas and power on April 1, reflecting the company’s new structure. “
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Dennis Gotta
9 years
Open communication. Can't wait for Slack etc. to become new standard http://t.co/DvyNrPJuTF
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Dennis Gotta
8 years
Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish. (Marcus Aurelius)
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Dennis Gotta
6 years
On keeping a steady drum beat:
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8 years
Hoping for the best, expecting the worst...
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Dennis Gotta
6 years
Impatience with actions, patience with results.
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Dennis Gotta
11 years
Surprisingly peaceful arrangement #disruptberlin @ Disrupt Europe 2013 http://t.co/6ODuIETYjX
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Dennis Gotta
9 years
And even if you ignore all this advice: wear sunscreen... http://t.co/yn6attWkZr
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Dennis Gotta
6 years
Consistency beats correctness?
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Dennis Gotta
7 years
“Vormittags machen wir Propaganda, und nachmittags Politik.” #FJS #sch önwär’s
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Dennis Gotta
8 years
Don’t Kick The Can Down The Road
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Dennis Gotta
7 years
“First-Gear man”. Best Indian phrase so far
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Dennis Gotta
12 years
Nothing beats this rush of last minute powerpoint slide manufacturing...
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Dennis Gotta
8 years
"carbon-based errors"...
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Dennis Gotta
5 years
Anyone can find the dirt in someone. Be the one who finds the gold...
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Dennis Gotta
7 years
One man's trash is another man's treasure
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Dennis Gotta
8 years
"Man will sooner will nothingness than not will" - new need for Nietzsche's nihilism?
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Dennis Gotta
8 years
That moment when #LinkedIn suggests the job you qui a few months ago as "top job pick for you" #ai
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Dennis Gotta
9 years
Latest trend: Chinese taking pictures of Chinese family members looking at smartphones in front of monuments?
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Dennis Gotta
14 years
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@dennis
Dennis Gotta
11 years
Awesome food, great atmosphere. .. and a bargain! (@ MÁK bistro - @makbistro ) [pic]: http://t.co/YvjV40AUkz
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Dennis Gotta
11 years
Yet another inspiring Berlin breakfast... talking about, well, boring business ideas.
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Dennis Gotta
4 years
wissen, kennen, können // savoir, connaître // to know
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Dennis Gotta
10 years
Innovation always starts out as a bad idea - challenge though: bad ideas also look like bad ideas (Ben Horowitz)
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Dennis Gotta
7 years
Change Creates Information ( @avc )
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Dennis Gotta
6 years
I will (Objective) as measured by (this set of Key Results). #OKR
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Dennis Gotta
9 years
80% Hip Hop, 19% House, 1% Helene. Well ... #royaljungle
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Dennis Gotta
6 years
The stories we tell each other will lead to the actions we take.
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Dennis Gotta
9 years
"Auch die Bretter, die mancher vor dem Kopf trägt, können die Welt bedeuten"
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Dennis Gotta
7 years
"Nobody cares. Just coach your team.” (Bill Parcells)
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Dennis Gotta
13 years
Unternehmertum als Bestreben, seinen Horizont selbst zu definieren... #TNB11
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Dennis Gotta
9 years
You want to know how to paint a perfect painting? It's easy. Make yourself perfect and then just paint naturally. http://t.co/sgBQqnRNqb
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Dennis Gotta
5 years
ferd (Norwegian): Journey without an end (via @FerdOwner ) #FERDsLIST
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Dennis Gotta
6 years
Es gibt keine schlechten Mannschaften. Es gibt nur schlechte Offiziere. -Napoleon
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Dennis Gotta
11 years
Corporations execute, startups explore... #cstarts13
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11 years
Corporate Incubators as a way to "outsource failure". @pjozefak to the point. #cstarts13
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Dennis Gotta
8 years
If you want a happy ending, that depends of course on when you stop your story...
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Dennis Gotta
7 years
On travel
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Dennis Gotta
14 years
one of those days ... http://bit.ly/turningpro
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10 years
"When in doubt say you're a Canadian. People hate a lot of countries but no one hates the Canadians." (Via @PencilsOfPromis )
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Dennis Gotta
7 years
To have another language is to possess a second soul. (Charlemagne)
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Dennis Gotta
6 years
Recalling my favorite definition of insanity: trying the very same trick over and over again while expecting a different outcome.
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Dennis Gotta
5 years
Eva Menasse sieht die Öffentlichkeit vor dem Zerfall: “Die vielgerühmte Freiheit, dass sich jeder zu allem äussern kann, schafft die gefährliche Illusion, dass das Aushalten anderer Meinungen nicht mehr nötig ist.”
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Dennis Gotta
9 years
"While we enjoy comfort, we crave experience." On leaving. http://t.co/vRs7CwqkQG
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Dennis Gotta
5 months
You don’t want to meet your neighbors for the first time in the middle of the night when you house is burning down.
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Dennis Gotta
8 years
When a great moment knocks...
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Dennis Gotta
11 years
Switching skylines... up next: NYC!
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Dennis Gotta
9 years
Think of simulations as flip side to Big Data. Data science: useful when you already have large data sets. (1/2)
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Dennis Gotta
11 years
Last night at the office - making the most of it ...
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Dennis Gotta
7 years
Das Getane ist nicht so endgültig wie das Versäumte
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Dennis Gotta
11 years
The iPhone effect - sometimes you don't know what you want until you see it right before your eyes...
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Dennis Gotta
10 years
Intriguing HBS metric: bottom third academically better off financially than top third in long run?! #DLD14
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