30 Years – Johannes in the Middle East

“Some places never really let go of you. For a long time, Riyadh was such a place for me. When I moved to Saudi Arabia in the late 1980s, I was young and ready to take on responsibility. As Resident Manager of the only Leading Hotel of the World in Riyadh, I led 480 employees […]

30 Years: Nicole Hotzy – Death in the Fairy-Tale Forest

“Presumably, I could find a story about ARGO for every day of the year. However, Shrove Tuesday 2023 has remained particularly vivid in my memory. Again and again, the team expressed a wish to see the consultants more often in person and to consciously spend time together – especially since we were still dealing with […]

30 Years: Maria Gratzl – Honest Learning in the Open Air

“ARGO is, for me and the leadership team at LIWEST, inseparably linked with Traunkirchen and not in the sense of ‘nice hotel, pleasant workshop room,’ but because of that outdoor exercises where, after five minutes, every participant realizes: Ah! Okay… so this is how we really work together when things get uncomfortable! 😄 We showed […]

30 Years – Eva Plambeck and the Diary

“In early 1999, a colleague told me about his friend Dieter Bernold and ARGO. I then reread the Argonauts saga and even went to the office address at the time, Heiligenstädter Straße 51, to get a feel for the surroundings. Afterwards, I wrote in my diary on May 1, 1999: ‘The interview went well – […]

30 Years – Robert Kirschner and the Drama of Resemblances

“It takes a great deal of sensitivity to confront someone with the fact that you’ve noticed certain similarities between them and other – often prominent – people. When I first met one of our ARGOnauts, my mind immediately wandered between Lt. Frank Drebin from The Naked Gun and Capt. Roger Over (Airplane!). While I waited […]