Dear readers and followers of my blog,
unfortunately unknown assholes had hacked my blog several weeks ago and I can only write posts here again since it has been successfully recovered these days.
What has anyhow called my critical attention since the beginning of this year was the fact, that lots of arabic and russian language comments had appeared in my posts, which I always always immediately deleted. No idea, whether this had to do with the hack.
Anyhow I have – thanks to my good friend Phelipe Santos from my incredibly creative Brazilian digital marketing supporters from Amplia Soluções ( https://ampliasolucoes.com.br/home/) – overcome this nightmare.
Team meeting at AMPLIA`s headquarters in Extrema, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Just to give You an update on how I have been doing since my last post here in my blog. I continue fully busy as General Manager of the Brazilian subsidiary of the – in terms of global market and technology leadership – leading German power transmission components supplier RINGSPANN (https://www.ringspann.com/en). Our Brazilian team continues to grow strongly and we are highly successful with the extension of our market participation allover Brazil.
RINGSPANN do Brasil – the best team in the world – together with my colaborators Maura, Celso, Elisvelto, Guilherme, Leandro and Renato.
For this reason I have recently decided, to finish my former contract as exclusive comercial representant of the also – in its segment – leading German industrial company Poppe + Potthoff Maschinenbau GmbH. Priorities needed to be defined and I have always been fast and consequent in doing this.
What else important to report here? Well, my wife and I managed to – as every year – “flee” for 1 week over my – this time 69th – birthday to the breathtakingly beautiful small holiday resort Trancoso in the South of Bahia, Where we – despite mixed weather – enjoyed a wonderful time.
Live can be nice as well – wouldn`t You agree with me?
Not to forget – our 21 year old son Gabriel Hepp de Brito (https://www.linkedin.com/in/gabriel-hepp-de-brito-369b67295/), who initiated his studies of economics at IBMEC in São Paulo, continued these at UC Berkely (https://www.berkeley.edu/) during the last two semesters and who is now moving to New York (https://www.nyu.edu/) for finishing his studies there until the end of next year, came to visit us together with his Californian girlfriend Giovana (her father is American, her mother is Brazilian and she was born in Hawai) over his university vacations for doing an four weeks internship at a M&A boutique in São Paulo.
Gabriel & Giovana – the future is Your`s!
Two weeks ago a great South African friend of mine, Sodhie Naicker (https://www.linkedin.com/in/sodhie-naicker-a4492418), Non- Executive Director at DMT United Kingdom and Director at DMT Kai Batla South Africa (https://miningontop-africa.com/partner/dmt-kai-batla/), a multidisciplinary mining and engineering consultancy based in Johannesburg operating across the African continent and belonging to the German DMT Group (https://www.dmt-group.com/), let me know that he has just published his book “Initiate & Disrupt”.
Lazy on a saturday afternoon – in our garden in Vinhedo, São Paulo
For sure I ordered immediately a copy of it and when it arrived a few days later at my home, I had a very quick read throught it. I was amazed, because Sodhie shares in it his own lifelong extensive management experiences, especially with regards to entrepreneurial spirit and actitude.
So I decided to give this copy of the book to my son Gabriel, just before he left back to the USA. And I ordered directly ten more copies of the book, because I thought it an excelent idea to give copies of it to my young, English speaking RINGSPANN do Brasil (https://www.ringspann.com.br/pt/contato/brasil) team mates and to several other young friends.
My enthusiasm for reading and for literature in general has started early in my life at the age of six or seven years and occupies me – without ever losing its fascination – to this day.
Since many years I love to read diferent books simultaneously and in the diferent languages – German, Portuguese, English, Spanish and French – which I have learned in between.
Actually I am reading diferent titles – coincidentially most of them in portuguese versions.
I like to read different stuff – ultimately I have become very interested in philosophical and anthropological titles
But I also like very much to read national and international newspapers and magazines. Especially during my breakfast I enjoy quick looks into several German, Brazilian, Spanish and American and French newspapers. Articles which interest me more deeply, I use to read in peace in the evening.
Several of these newspapers and magazins (Economist, New York Times, El Pais, Le Monde, Valor Económico, Estadão, Veja I have subscribed – all others I only use for reading the freely available content
Good enough for today. Job done!
Before leaving I decided to share this beautifull Jimmy Cliff video, which fits perfectly to Sodhie`s book: https://youtu.be/Dx1FszqYhVU?si=UX9QbXiPN3HyAOj9
Hope to see You – soon? – again here in my blog.
I wish all of You – wherever You might be right now around the globe – a relaxing weekend!
