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If you have not read it yet and are looking for a Christmas present: my recommendation.
If you have not read it yet and are looking for a Christmas present: my recommendation.
"Systemversagen" by Gabor Steingart.
Steingart names five reasons for Germany's decline:
1. Meltdown at the heart of the economy
The glowing core — skilled workers, entrepreneurs, inventors — is melting. The crust is growing: today, there are seven times as many recipients of Bürgergeld income support as automotive workers.
2. The state anaesthetises the decline
The state numbs the downturn with a debt binge. Citizens do not feel the decline — not yet.
3. Only the welfare state keeps growing
The only thing still growing is social spending. Mothers' pensions, pension guarantees — politicians diligently keep building up the crust.
4. The wrong operating system
The education system is 210 years old. The industrial operating system is 140 years old. Germany was the Silicon Valley of the nineteenth century — today, we trail behind.
5. The underlying operating system: the civil-service state
If this caste hates anything, it is the phrase "cutting bureaucracy".
What you take away from the book: systems that are not modernised become encrusted and fail. That applies to nations. To organisations. To leadership structures.
❓ What encrusted structures do you recognise in your area of responsibility? And what are you doing about them?
Not tomorrow. Ideally today.
The biggest mistake you can make is waiting for others: for politicians finally to create the right conditions, or for the board or management finally to set the direction.
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