Meet with Henning Weigand from Hamburg. He provides his service in Corporate Governance Risk Management & Assurance in Hamburg. Henning has a lot of work experience and has worked for many organizations. Henning is a global minded, positive and team player.
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In his role as Business Analyst in Sales & Operations Henning Weigand was responsible for the analysis, definition and implementation of business processes and marketing toolkits, leading a number of projects in Retail Sales and Marketing.
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Meet with Henning Weigand from Hamburg. He provides his service in Corporate Governance Risk Management & Assurance in Hamburg. Henning has a lot of work experience and has worked for many organizations. Henning is a global minded, positive and team player.
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Like every morning, I start my day with coffee and a bowl of Muesli. Coffee makes my day – actually I have too much of it. But alongside some ginger tea and ideally a run in the fresh air, it’s simply a great way to make the morning energized and motivated.
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Like every morning, I start my day with coffee and a bowl of Muesli. Coffee makes my day – actually I have too much of it. But alongside some ginger tea and ideally a run in the fresh air, it’s simply a great way to make the morning energized and motivated.
How do you start your day? How do you appreciate and embrace the day to achieve small or great things? An army general gave some great advice to the graduation class to – if you want to change the world - to start the day making your bed. Well, we don’t always have to change the world, but a little coffee and making your bed are a good start getting motivated.
How do you motivate yourself? In my view, people enjoy most and are best at things that interest them, things that interest you, make the biggest difference. It starts as a child in school and accompanies us through our lives. But it’s not necessarily just the big things in life such as choosing a profession or a hobby. Every day, there will be small things that get you excited, things we often don’t make ourselves conscious of. For an instant they are there, they get you excited, raise your attention, and – way too often – they are gone again right away and we forget them. I carry pen and paper with me to note down, when I experience such moments or small hours. Noting them down will allow me to make myself conscious of them and let them guide me, which I found a great way to get motivated, alongside a delightful cup of coffee...!
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Recently I have been listening to music again more. I went through my old CDs and found some good stuff that I used to love, but that kind of made it off my mind a bit in my busy day to day life. Also found some old playlists on Windows Media Player, re-discovering old tunes and old memories connected to it. When I was unmessing, I found old concert tickets of amazing artists such as Gary Moore, Queen, Muse, a Perfect Circle and Radiohead. It’s been over a year now, since last I could go to a concert, shortly before the pandemic started to hit us all. I saw John Petrucci whose signature guitar I have been having now since the 90s, just recently I found the invoice of back when I bought it in the US. Really thinking that I should be playing guitar more again – just too distracted by too many things to find enough time. Back in those days when I taught myself guitar, I played 4 hours or so every day, and spent time jamming with friends. Well, music and this wonderful Spring weather definitely made my day. Waking up, the day showed as a beautiful Spring day, and that motivated me to get out on my bike and go for a ride in the fresh air first thing. And to make the day more meaningful, I picked up my acoustic again to enjoy this Saturday of music and Spring.
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There have been many positive developments with the way we have been operating, whilst as recently as the late 1970s, 30 percent of China’s population was undernourished until Deng Xiaoping led the conversion to a market economy. The same applies to many other parts of the world: Humans live longer, humans starve less. With humans living longer and the world population having increased from 1 billion in 1804 to 2 billion in 1927 and 3 billion in 1960 to almost 8 billion today and growing further rapidly, the way we have been operating our economy cannot be held up, it is simply not sustainable on a finite planet. In my view the positive aspects of the market economy have distributed wealth into an international division of labor, with each contributing what they are best at is not talked about enough.
As with anything in this world, all has upsides and downsides. Whilst this enabled mankind to starve less and live healthier, longer, the linear business model is causing a massive issue. Our oceans are finite, our resources are limited. The earth doesn’t get bigger. We need to change our behavior to cope with this and for that education and technology are key. The packaging industry is one important player in this, so are other industries. But the packaging industry alone cannot solve it, it is closely linked to people’s behavior enabled through a complete change into circularity.
Any of these products (phones, clothes, medical packs, food packs, cars, hygiene products, housing construction material, etc) is designed by humans who make a decision on what the product is made of, how it is applied and used and how it is being run upstream to downstream through value adding supply chains. Things need to be thought through end to end, thinking from the initial planning of the product all the way down the chain beyond the use of the product. To successfully change our business model to a fully circular model, products require designing for circularity, which refers to packaging, but also any other product.
Today we – together with entrepreneurs and designers – are working to create the circular economy, changing the business model from linear to circular. As mentioned in the first paragraph above, we dig resources out of the soil, convert them into something useful and valuable to enrich people’s lives, but after using, humans simply throw these things away as “waste”. I am not a fan of the word “waste”, as in my view today’s waste is valuable raw material and feed stock as a basis to convert and create again.
Some groundbreaking fundamental for this was laid in the early 1990’s, when Germany's Conservative Environment Minister Klaus Twofer created the Green Dot. Ground-breaking environmental regulations including the law on the life-cycle economy and the “green dot” packaging recycling system were introduced by him. 30 years down the road, recycling is deeply embedded, but it needs to be refreshed by the fully circular model and a review of the collection systems, which apply to packaging, but also any other product. Re-collection of used products & packages is one key item, converting them back into raw material/feed stock and – equally important to re-think and re-design the entire end to end supply chain for circularity.
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust – everything returns to where it came from. A dying tree or any other being will lay the fundamentals of a new tree or other being. Whilst some believe, life is linear, many believe, lives are circular and every end is a new beginning. Let’s work together to ensure our business model and our supply chains follow the same principle.
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