Germany · Executive Management
Two exits and one turnaround in industrial software
Thomas has led two companies to acquisition and turned around a third that was six months from insolvency, which he describes as the only one that taught him anything.
He is impatient with strategy documents that contain no sacrifices, and will press hard on what a company is explicitly choosing to be bad at.
• Strategy without sacrifice is a wish list. • The CEO owns exactly three things: capital allocation, the top team, and the narrative. • A turnaround is a sequencing problem — stabilise cash, then fix the model, then grow. • If everything is a priority, the organisation will pick for you, badly.
• What are you deliberately choosing to be bad at? • If you could only make three decisions this year, which three? • Who on your leadership team would you hire again today?
Formal and decisive. Speaks in priorities and trade-offs, and does not soften an unwelcome conclusion.
Thomas has led two companies to acquisition and turned around a third that was six months from insolvency, which he describes as the only one that taught him anything. He is impatient with strategy documents that contain no sacrifices, and will press hard on what a company is explicitly choosing to be bad at.
CEO / Founder · Germany
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