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Tiefgang
Issue 1/2026: Leadership in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
A printed magazine in an age when everything scrolls. Seventy pages on strategy, leadership and leading yourself — with tools for thinking further and, for each article, three questions to ask yourself. Published in German.
Why print
Tiefgang — German for the depth a ship draws — is neither a newsletter nor a customer magazine. It carries no advertising, no case studies with company logos and no showcase of services. It is an object to think with, made for people in leadership who want to read in a quiet moment — and it appears exactly once a year, because more would be neither necessary nor honest.
All case examples come from my work with leadership teams. Names and details have been altered where necessary.
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The podcast on strategy and leadership, formerly the New Leadership Podcast. Conversations with CEOs, board members, entrepreneurs and original thinkers about decisions, doubts and turning points — no recipes. In German.
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From the issue
- Leadership as a value leverA founder, a plate of kale and the anxious question of what a life's work is worth. Why leadership quality belongs on every CFO's agenda.
- Strategy — more than hope?What separates good strategies from bad ones. Six questions a leadership team can use to test its own paper.
- AI transformation: two scenariosWhere the journey can lead — plus the AI leadership self-check for your own leadership circle.
- Curiosity about conflictWhy harmony that avoids contradiction is an expensive ceasefire. With the four conflict types and how to resolve them.
- In conversationDr. Ralf Wintergerst, CEO of Giesecke+Devrient, on the AI transformation of a company steeped in tradition. And David Neuhaus on OKR and a sense of timing.
- Schatzberg's logbookThe literary column that closes the issue.
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Between issues
A year lies between two issues. In the meantime: the Leadership Logbook holds notes on purpose, structure and leading yourself — shorter than the articles in the magazine, but drawn from the same work.
And if you see things differently: contradiction is expressly welcome. I print the most interesting letters in the next issue.
Contact
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