Encouraged by friends and family members, I've decided to record some special moments from my professional life in the form of memoirs. They come like pages, including date, location a schematic, a picture with the person(s) involved and often with some incidental event which accompanied the mail meeting. The provide example, I attended with Urlich Gehrmann (my CFO) an American Management Association, European Chapter in London on June 25-27, 1996. The conference was an excellent venue to meet and to exchange view on various professional subjects. Baroness Thatcher lectured on Management to my great interest and I've met Benjamin Zander (director to The Boston Symphonic Orchestra) with whom we sung the "Ode an die Freude"in German language, from Beethoven 9th Symphony. Till today, I have a signed copy of the text page from Ben.
Incidentally, in parallel another big events run their course also in London. UEFA Euro 1996 tournament was taking place, on the night Germany played England in semifinals, giving 1(6):1(5) a win for the German team. Not paying too much attention to European Football, Ulrich and I were walking to a fine restaurant near our hotel, while he was chatting constantly in German to me, while I was a bit more sensitive to the shouts on the street we were crossing, hearing verbatim "kill the German bas....". The following morning in our hotel, sitting at the breakfast table, browsing morning newspapers we read that a poor Russian Tourist, german speaker, was badly manhandled by bunch of hooligans.
The blog has lost its original meaning and timeliness, but it may be a good venue bring those stories and share them.
