TI CEO Podcast · episode 35
Why I like heading into the weekend when something has moved forward
1-minute summary
In this episode of his CEO diary, Christoph Standl talks about why he likes heading into the weekend when something has moved forward. For him, a good week is not one where everything is done by Friday – as an entrepreneur, nothing is ever fully finished. The more important question is: what really moved forward this week? A decision, a project, a solved customer problem, progress in sales or in internal processes. With around fifty weeks a year, there are fifty opportunities to make the company a little better; until Tourismus Interaktiv's twentieth birthday in 2034, roughly four hundred such weeks lie ahead. His relationship with the weekend has changed too: sometimes it is just one or two quiet hours on Saturday morning, sometimes – as recently with the AI agent system – a momentum builds in which he works intensively on Saturday and Sunday because an enormous amount is happening. It is not about working as much or as little as possible, but about recognising when rest matters and when it pays to use a momentum. Long-term success does not come from one perfect week, but from many weeks in which the important things move a small step forward. Big changes often begin with small daily steps.
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For me, a good week is not necessarily a week in which everything is done by Friday. As an entrepreneur, nothing is ever really finished. Much more important for me is the question: what really moved forward this week? If we simply count fifty weeks a year, that's fifty opportunities to make a company a little bit better. Until Tourismus Interaktiv's twentieth birthday in 2034, there are still around four hundred such weeks ahead of us. In this episode I also talk about why my relationship with the weekend has changed. Sometimes it's just one or two quiet hours. And sometimes there is a weekend like the last one, when suddenly an enormous momentum builds and I work intensively on one topic on Saturday and Sunday. For me it's not about working as much as possible. It's about recognising when rest matters – and when it pays to use a momentum. Because long-term success perhaps doesn't come from the one perfect week, but from very many weeks in which the important things keep moving a small step forward. And remember: big changes often begin with small daily steps.