Malte Stöckert takes the reader on a journey to the daily challenges of a middle manager and his team in a manufacturing company. You get to know Thomas on this journey. He is faced with seemingly unsolvable tasks and feels in a conflict of values that makes him doubt himself and the task again and again. Accompany Thomas on his journey to examine and reflect on his own worldview. In the end, Thomas keeps asking himself what the meaning behind it all is. This is a question that is obviously being asked more and more frequently by people in the German SME sector. The relevance of this work in the entrepreneurial context becomes impressively clear in these passages of the book. Manager Thomas develops his own approach in the course of the book. He experiences the dimensions of his actions and understands what it really means to take responsibility for himself and for his team. He learns to deal with conflict situations and also understands emotionally which tasks he has to solve. A must for every middle manager who feels driven, rushed and sometimes even superfluous. An appeal and a call for a fact-based discussion, a deep examination of oneself and the acceptance of leadership. Things that are taught far too rarely in our educational institutions.