Fluidity – The Growing Need Of Organisations Today
Organisations are facing increasing a dilemma in how they organise and manage within their systems and structures. They are being forced to deal in …
Organisational Culture
Crisis communications in the time of COVID
In 2019 something strange happened to the world. The Covid 19 virus struck. While much of the virus dynamics and its aftermath will go down in the anna…
Psychology skills for leaders navigating through the waves of the corona crisis
Being challenged in life is inevitable, being defeated is optional. COVID-19 is forcing world leaders to practice crisis management in its purest and …
The spirit speaks
After a busy day of e-mails, zoom meetings and a zoom delivered workshop on how to create high performing teams, I retreated to my usual decompression …
Psychology skills for leaders navigating through the waves of the corona crisis
Psychology skills for leaders navigating through the waves of the corona crisis. Being challenged in life is inevitable, being defeated is optional. C…
Agile Management: What you should know about Management 3.0
Known as Agility or Agile Coaching, the concept of agile management was born in software development companies in the early 2000's as a response to the…
The Dark side of innovation – Killers of Innovation Part 3 – The Team and the Individual
Co-written with fellow Future Shaper, Sabine Simon. Margeret Heffernan, Professor for Practice at Bath University and Entrepreneur, points out that „F…
Constructivism: The Philosophy of Education
Educators are completely able to use constructivist learning theory to help their students understand their previous knowledge. If you are a current ed…
The dark side of innovation – Innovation killers: The Organisation
Co-written with fellow Future Shaper, Sabine Simon. Curt Richardson's perspective that "Failure is a part of innovation - perhaps the most important …
The Innovation Wheel
There is a lot of talk about the different stages of the innovation funnel. But are we not forgetting about something? I am thinking about the driving …
A pathway towards building your dynamic innovation capabilities
To build a pathway in order to enable more dynamic innovation capabilities one needs to go through Nine Stages. These nine stages are, in my opinion, …
Time for a new C-suite officer?
I am only half jesting! We have seen the rise of the Innovation officer, The Chief Digital Officer and the Chief Data Officer. We have heads of sustain…
The Naked Intrapreneur 3 – Building a Community of the Willing
I have given my own sweat, tears, passion and commitment to the journey of intrapreneurship. I have despaired, almost given up, felt I’ve failed, and s…
Fostering sustainable collaboration with insights from neuroscience
Organisations have to master dynamic changes both on the outside and on the inside. The role of collaboration becomes increasingly important in today´s…
How to be a Game Changer
I have spent most of my working life seeking innovative solutions to challenging problems. It’s a passion. And, working with some of the most talented …
Covid-19: Keep Calm and Stay Strong
You can’t just ‘carry on’, well not as normal anyway. The impact that the Coronavirus pandemic is having around the world is like nothing we have seen…
There’s a big, fat cat outside. The power of motivation
When my dog, a Jack Russell Terrier named Oliver, does not want to go outside to the backyard, I must yell a motivational sentence: “There’s a big, fat…
Inject some humanity… please
In every office, in every business, and every industry and public service across the country, people go to work every day. As they enter the building…
The Agile Manifesto Re-examined
The birth of the manifesto Recently, Per-Magnus Skoogh (co-founder of Agile Extreme) invited me to meet Arie van Bennekum. Arie is one of the …
Culture does not eat strategy for breakfast
Are culture and strategy interdependent, interrelated, or intertwined? Does anyone really know? I often envision culture and strategy sitting in the m…