It’s been a while now that I have stopped holding business meetings in my office. People in office meetings almost always behave as if they were mentally paralysed. They anxiously wait until it’s their turn to talk. They play with their mobile phones like old Greeks with their Kombolo. And the air in most offices is sickening. I decided to held walking meetings instead. Whenever there is something to discuss that takes more than let’s say 20 Minutes, my colleagues and I leave the office. We take walks in the woods surrounding Zurich. In summer, we stroll along the lake. And if we have to talk about serious matters I ask them in advance to wear proper shoes and take possibly a jacket along and than we hike through the hills and mountains surrounding Zurich. At first, most people reacted slightly amused – is this some sort of a new holistic management theory? But than they started to relax and to make observations about the landscape until quiet naturally the topic changed towards the things that we initially wanted to discuss. When you walk next to each other you never feel the pressure to voice an opinion too quickly – opinions are boring anyway. Instead you have the time to literally carry your words along. There is in fact a strong cultural marriage between walking and thinking. Today I walked with a colleague from the city center to the top of a nearby hill. We couldn’t understand each other because of the heavy rain, so we almost did not speak. Back in the office we both realized that there is no solution to the problem between us that we wanted to talk about because there was no problem.