It relates to the  professional path of my beloved dad. He remained loyal to his first employer for almost 40 years. A midsize company where he started his  professional journey at the amazing age of fourteen. Textile industry, Germany.  Success story in the 1960s and early 1970s. Then disruptive change evolved. When it hit my father’s company unprepared, it was too late. 10 years of suffering
business, 10 years of creeping death – that I observed as a child and teenager – ended in bankruptcy. I saw my father suffering. It was not his job and not his pay grade to initiate the turn. He was a victim, a passenger on a sinking ship.

My learnings: Become strong. Become independent. Once you sense things going wrong: stand up, articulate your opinion, and take action! If I am being honest, my dedication to “KAIROS” is also rooted in these learnings.  KAIROS was the Greek god of the moment, while his friend CHRONOS was the god of sequential time. In rhetoric, Kairos is known as a decisive moment, a passing instant when an opening appears which must be seized with force if success is to be achieved. Taking influence, giving impulses, raising hands, and stating an opinion which is not mainstream – this does not happen without a decisive moment, without the little instant where you make the decision
“I do …”.

For me, “Kairos 2’19” is the perfect physical expression of the decisive moment, the power that it can unfold, but also the courage it takes to do so. “The point of power is always in the present moment”, a wise friend once said to me. He’s so right!