Sometimes this man cannot be tamed. Then Martin Brudermüller, 62, steps from one foot to the other. He talks himself into a rage, gesticulates, stirs the air with his hands. Or he grabs the desk he’s standing at as if he needed a lightning rod for his excessive energy. He speaks directly, without any embellishments, without the smoothness that managers are taught in communications seminars today. Impatience is his greatest weakness, he once says SZ interview: “I’m full of energy and very enthusiastic. I’ve annoyed my family with that before. If I think an idea is good, I don’t want to discuss it 20 or 30 times, twice is enough. Bang, bang.”
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