Focus on the NEW

Throughout my professional career, I've been involved in change projects.

From introducing computer systems to manual bank branches in East Germany in 1990 as an apprentice, to establishing internet banking with over 100,000 new customers monthly at Germany's largest incumbent bank in 1999 as a manager, to developing the world's first API-based open banking platform in 2015 as a CEO, and even transforming a universal bank into a consumer specialist as a supervisory board member – change is a constant.

This holds true on a personal level as well. Transforming from an amateur athlete to a banker, from being single to being married and a father of two, requires embracing new realities and adapting personal habits.

It's said that changing a character trait takes 5 to 10 years, and changing an organizational culture takes even longer. My experience confirms this. It requires daily discipline and routines. Besides discipline, what do these professional and personal changes have in common that allows for efficient and effective mastery?

For me, it's "Focus on the NEW."

Don't fight old habits or processes. Instead, focus on nurturing the desired new habits and processes day by day. Over time, they will naturally replace the old ones.

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