The Corporate Corner

Mats interviews Mike Kubena, former member of PwC Global Strategy Council and CEO of PwC Central and Eastern Europe. A truly inspiring and thoughtful man on a reflective journey. Mike’s journey started from San Antonio, Texas, where he grow up, and started his career and moves to where he left, as a 26 year old, to embark on a very successful career that took him to Russia and Eastern Europe.  We discuss:  Cultural differences in t...

Meet Shuchi Tandon. She has a unique story. She grew up in India and moved to Prague, Czech Republic to study university and there she started her first job for the development center of the German Stock Exchange in Prague. After that she moved to New York, USA and started to work as a consultant for Goldman Sachs and then moved on to work as a software developer for the insurance company, Geico. 

We discuss how it was to ...

In this episode Ariel and Mats are back small talking about various recent experiences.

Ariel and Mats talk about their reality over the last few months, the podcast launch, podcast as a media and they as well extensively discuss recruitment from both sides of the equation.

Podcasting has been a challenge.  Yet, has played an important role, creating some balance during the unexpected delay in finding the next rig...

Katri Lampinen from Sweden, an expert on stress related questions at the workplace is our guest today. She talks about how the holiday season is creating sky rocketing figures in the long term sickness leave after the December holidays in Sweden. 

She also reflects on some causes on why people are so stressed and what can be done about it at the workplace, both for managers and employees. 

Finally she gives some t...

The Corporate corner meets with Tony Schiavo a Wall Street FinTec CTO.

We look at Tony’s career that took him to several Wall Street banks and how he was part of transforming the electronic trading systems in these banks for the last decades. 

We talk about the challenges of managing people, how to lead by influence and the difficulty of having to lay people off.

Tony talks about how he took a year off from Wall Street to work on the ...

In this weeks episode we meet David Dostal, a German entrepreneur who values freedom above anything else in life.

David was born in Germany the year after his Czechoslovakian parents flew the communist regime in Czechoslovakia and this has tainted David's life in his quest for freedom.

We talk about his dream of setting up his own company and how he, as a 25 year old, succeeded with that in Switzerland afte...

Mats & Ariel are back talking in The Cororate Corner, this episode.

They share TCC’s first reviews on Apple Podcasts (yeah!) with the listeners and also share some more suprising feedback they had from their first episodes.

Ariel shares her view on how each of us have a unique story to share regardless of which position we have in the hierarchy of society, and that we all tend to focus on the more famous...

This week Mats talks to  David Sobeski in a conversation that lasted for nearly 3 hours so it will come in 2 parts. In part 1 we cover: 

David talks about how he grow up in an American middle class family in Pennsylvania on the US East Coast. He talks about his early interest for computers and how he got his first computer as an 8 year old and started to program very early. 

David is also sharing the experience fr...

This week we are back with David Sobeski and Part II of the talk with him. 

David talks about his interpretation of the Oprah Winfrey theory and how it can be applied in management. 

He tells us how he is using 1 on 1 walks with his direct reports to get out of the confined environment that is the office space and how that changes things. 

We talk extensively about the difference between US and European w...

In this episode Mats goes solo, for the first time. 

Mats talks about the suffering he sees around him, in daily life, and how often it is linked to the person that is directly managing someone.  As well, he talks about the importance of the direct line manager and how that person can make all the difference. 

Mats reminds us that speaking your mind is important and expresses that most of the time he is not doing ...

Mats and Halee Fischer-Wright talk about the book she co-authored, The Tribal Leadership.  

Halee explains what is a tribe and the 5 different stages that individuals and corporations cycle through. 

Stage 1 - Life Sucks
Stage 2 - My Life Sucks
Stage 3 - I am great you are not 
Stage 4 - We are great and better than them
Stage 5 - We are creating something for a higher purpose and LIFE IS GREAT

In this episode Mats sits down and talks with Monika Hilm.

Monika is a Swedish international hotel manager, book author and driving force in the happiness at work movement. 

They talk about Monika's book, "PUT YOUR PEOPLE FIRST and the rest will follow" that she wrote while taking a year "off" and where she outlines her management ideas and how to create a Happy Hotel environment. 

 Ariel
shares ideas, tools and solutions to business and life decisions, through. Intuition.

In Northern California words like Intuition, Conscious business and meditation were as common as bread and butter, or maybe I should say rice crackers and tofu.  No, seriously, it was part of the norm.  Yet, to the regular business world beyond West coast borders, with some exceptions, you rarely heard much about these things, ...

This week, we meet Melissa Hahn from California.

Melissa has made her career in the beauty and luxury goods industry working mainly in marketing and sales for companies like Chanel, L'Oréal and Levis to mention a few.

Her career has taken her to the Caribbean, Panama and Chile and of course California.

We talk about the difficulty to sometimes be appreciated for your work when you are just do...

In today's episode Mats is going on an exploration of targets, target settings and the bell curve. 

Have you got your targets? Have you made the targets for your staff?

The corporate target settings for individuals is a cumbersome, administrative process in many places and often something that just have to be done. 

Very few are getting their real motivation and drive from these targets written on a ...

Today’s guest is Bert Muhleman. Bert is a non conformist who has shied away from the
corporate life and privileged travel, instead, meeting with other cultures and keeping a free soul and spirit.

Bert shares his story and why he chose life outside the corporate world and how it is to live from job to job, from travel to travel, living life, his way.

He also talks about his last project that he started du...

Mats talks about new TCC Schedule ahead moving away from the weekly wednesday distribution and giving his view on how to stay in good shape while still in corporate. 

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This week Mats talks to Per-Erik "Perka" Holmström and we'll follow his journey that is a mixture of innovation, corporate life and last but not least Sport, which has been an integral part of Perkas whole life. 

Perka is a man with ideas and he will never take no for an answer when someone thinks that one of his ideas can not be implemented.

Stubborn, talkative and visionaire is all adjectiv...

In this weeks episode, Ariel Andersson sits down with Jan "Janko" Palenčár in a deep conversation about finding your path in life, being a servant and what it really means.

Jan was interested in computers from an early age and started programming already at the age of 8. He started to work as a software engineer but quickly realized that he wanted something more out of life, that his path was meant to be in...