“We need a Bureaucracy Reduction Act,” says Joe Kaeser, multi-supervisory board member and ex-Siemens CEO, in conversation with Sebastian Matthes in this week’s Handelsblatt Disrupt. From insights into the characters of Wladimir Putin and Donald Trump to the urgent need to get away from over-analyzing problems to operationalizing solutions to economic challenges ranging from the US Inflation Reduction Act to positioning Europe vis-à-vis the US and China: Mr Kaeser shares his thoughts and many a personal impression in a podcast episode recorded at the #WEF23 in Davos – and is yet one more impressive voice in the chorus of business and economics insiders calling for Germany to urgently wake up.