Complaining about Germany as a business location has been a standard element in company leaders’ speeches for months: energy prices are too high, the bureaucracy is excessive, the politicians are incompetent. There’s just one thing they don’t like to talk about: their own mistakes. After all, it’s always easier to blame problems on “the circumstances.” But politics is not the only locational risk; many corporate managers in Germany are also part of it: they oversleep e-mobility, plunge into risky takeovers or rely on Russian gas for far too long instead of diversifying their suppliers. Is it possible that failure in the executive suites is the real reason for Germany’s decline?
Germany’s manager, the secret location problem – economy
