Tiefgang — the magazine for strategy and leadership

Sebastian Morgner, founder and managing partner of MLI, spends almost every working day with people in leadership roles. Almost all of them are smart and think in a nuanced way. If their decisions still sometimes stay on the surface, it is rarely down to them. It is down to the clock.

A calendar in 30-minute blocks gives the brain no chance to go deep. Between two appointments, no thought emerges that is longer than the walk to the next meeting room.

In Tiefgang — German for “depth” or “draft,” the depth of a ship below the waterline — you will find material for your leadership work on three levels: how strategy becomes lived reality, how leadership is developed, and how you can use your own resources more effectively.

The magazine is meant for the quiet moment, with a favorite drink, when you take the time to reflect on your own actions. Boats with a deep draft sit better in the water and hold their course even in stormy seas.

We hope that you will smile as you read, recognize a few things and take away an impulse or two that makes your leadership easier, and gives it depth.

Tiefgang · the podcast

The podcast on strategy and leadership

Sebastian Morgner talks with CEOs, board members, entrepreneurs and leading thinkers about what leadership takes today: how strategies become effective, how transformation succeeds and what leadership looks like in the age of AI. No recipes, but conversations with depth about decisions, doubts and turning points.

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