Hi, I am Daniel Hauck, welcome to my website.
If you are looking for a short description of me, my areas of interest are: PEOPLE and TECH.
30 second version
I am a director of tech at the largest music retailer in the world, I run a coaching business, and I build products in the time that remains.
On this blog I write about all of that, plus you can find my products.
Longer Version
I am tech guy, I started as a sysadmin, became a software engineer, turned into a manager, now I am serving as the director of tech at the world's largest music retailer. For more information on my professional journey you can check out my LinkedIn profile.
Next to my career I build software products and I help people discover their potential.
In my tech career I had good and bad examples of leaders and mentors. As I wanted to be a good leader I wanted to learn everyting about leadership, management, coaching, psychology, ... After I started writing about it and releasing my first book (The New Manager Survival Guide) I also started coaching new and seasoned managers as a side gig.
After a while I stopped (except for long-term clients) because I wanted to focus on building out some ideas I had in mind. With that I also stopped writing, as building and running a SaaS company next to a director position wasn't sustainable.
Now after a couple of projects - and hitting my head into the wall multiple times - I've found my way and also discovered that distilling my learnings in writing helps me a lot.
This writing you will find here on this blog, alongside updates about the different products I build.
If you are looking for a clear niche and strategy here I can't help you. It's all between PEOPLE and TECH.
What else?
I live in Southern Germany in the middle of nowhere with my spouse. I like to hike (yeah, typical German) to flee from my screen, I like to lift, I like to make pizza with my spouse, I like to read, I like write.