Author: Isabella Mader

The Winter of Revisiting Thucydides

Great-power rivalry today may be less about who rises fastest than about who controls the systems everyone depends on. From rare earths to AI infrastructure, strategic chokepoints are reshaping the logic of global competition.

Seeing Fault Lines Before They Break

Systemic erosion is messy, slow, and boring — until suddenly it isn’t. Current geopolitical and financial developments suggest that executives are well advised to reassess assumptions about stability, market behavior, and institutional resilience. A combination of tariff-driven inflation and rising financing costs can rapidly move even large economies out of equilibrium if trust erodes.

Gibt es 21st Century Skills für Executives?

„Wenn es 21st Century Skills für Management gibt, dann ist es die Fähigkeit, die Gesamtsicht eines Eigentümervertreters auf das Business zu haben“, sagt Andreas Renner, Direktor der Steinbeis Augsburg Business School.

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