Dr. Horst Blumenstock

Management means ensuring success in constantly changing economic and technological environments. It means identifying opportunities, gearing an organization to clearly communicated goals and staying on target: When advising leading, innovative mid-sized companies from various sectors, I frequently come across these three fundamental factors of success.

Executives who work by these principles combine performance with responsibility. Furthering and recruiting leaders with such qualities has been the key to success at all stages in my career.

These include posts in industry, financial services and, for more than ten years, my responsibilities as head of human resources of the Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group with its international portfolio of newspaper, magazines, book publishers and electronic media.

Today, I have the opportunity to pass on my professional experience as member of advisory boards of SMEs as well as Professor of Management at Nürtingen-Geislingen College of Business. In the education of management students, as head of the EU Project “Employee Flexibility” and in particular in the selection and assessment of executives, I continue to promote this yardstick for good corporate governance: Sound personnel decisions highlight the competence of top management, clarify the values of a company and determine its productive ability.