The currency of the 21st century
Why should you care about trust in the workplace? Because if trust is not given attention and a culture of distrust start to form, it has the power …
Leading Change
Failing to Succeed
Despite a flurry of business books offering the entrepreneur advice on how to succeed, failure is the single most important goal. Being successful in l…
The Ivory Tower
Since the invention of the modern university in the 12th century, higher education institutions have always responded to fundamental changes in socie…
Transformation without predictive analytics
A crisis always transforms the “how” and the “what to some extent”. To which extent will organisations transform the “how” to meet the “what for” and…
Practising adaptive leadership
If we want to avoid endless hardship, conflict and ecological catastrophes, we must become ecologically literate – and deeply so. The future is, you mi…
Getting out in front of change: The champion’s role in innovation
The best innovation in the world may be left to die on the vine if an organisation is not ready to take the risk required to accept and implement it. I…
Servant leadership’s role in driving change
Servant leadership is an effective means to motivate, influence and transform. The servant leader's emphasis on other's well-being bolsters success rat…
Tallest towers and endless seas: The motivating power of visionary purpose
It’s the job of a good leader to remind people of the big picture. But why do so many companies fail to translate their guiding principles into action?…
Change and culture – the new competitive advantage
Change is happening faster, it’s more complex and far reaching than ever, yet the failure rate of organisational change is around 80% . In this busy an…
Towards meta intelligence
The world as we know it is changing rapidly. There is no getting back to the old. In this thought piece Ron Immink unpacks the lessons from a book call…
The fool on the hill
Just because a story is accepted as factual by a majority of people, does not make it the truth. Some research on Covid-19 indicated we were being sold…
Fanning the flames of post-pandemic fictions
If exploitation and greed remain our driving ambitions, and if the chasm between the poor and the wealthy widens much more, we will either face revolut…
Masculine & Feminine Empowerment at work
Diversity is key for innovation, but despite an increasing number of women in the workplace, we - both men and women - are still abandoning feminine tr…
Fostering sustainable collaboration with insights from neuroscience
The biggest challenge for organisations today is to master dynamic changes both on the outside and on the inside. The ability to collaborate effectiv…
Policies for the Digital Age
The digital world is here, however the regulatory framework is still behind and needs an update. But just using the old thinking about policy creation …
Opportunities in the Noise
The World Health Organisation has belatedly declared the current outbreak of novel coronavirus COVID-19 a pandemic. It can be argued they were slow to …
Transformation and innovation: There is no quick fix: Part 2
Creative destruction is a reality for most and although much can be done to be prepared, the steps you decide to take might not be the holy grail to en…
Transformation and innovation: There is no quick fix: Part 1
Leading innovation and transformation has become an integral part of the established organisation's day to day running activities. Doing this requires …
Create Order from Disorder by Unlocking the Initiator in You
I appointed one of my most innovative employees as product owner of a very promising new idea. He had to oversee prototyping and testing prior to launc…
Is reality real?
Let’s imagine a group (either in the company, family, friends, etc.) that would manage reality as a single and common reality, where the purpose, open …