List of Articles on our Guiding Principles Prelude: What Organizations Have in Common With Living Systems Principle #1: Radical Openness Principle #2 Sensing the Core Principle #3: Latent Potentials Principle #4 Design und Co-creation Principle #5: Emergence Principle #6: Enabling Principle #7: Learning from the Future as it Emerges This is the final blog post … Read more
With the holidays nearing, you might finally find time to sit down with a good book. We have compiled our reading list to help you pick one for the long winter evenings. We asked our colleagues to recommend inspirational books for leaders and to explain their choice shortly. Let the selection below expand your mind … Read more
Blockchain technology has been used to supercharge financial markets. Yet, currently, the downsides of crypto investments are more visible than ever. We seem to witness a bursting bubble. Has the crypto hype thus been debunked? Or, once the fog lifts, will we learn which blockchain promise really holds water? A bursting bubble and ensuing crisis … Read more
List of Articles on our Guiding Principles Prelude: What Organizations Have in Common With Living Systems Principle #1: Radical Openness Principle #2 Sensing the Core Principle #3: Latent Potentials Principle #4 Design und Co-creation Principle #5: Emergence Principle #6: Enabling Principle #7: Learning from the Future as it Emerges Before we get into the topic, … Read more
Strolling around in small, provincial villages and towns across Europe has become increasingly depressing over the past decades. Deserted local centers with empty, dusted shop windows and little daily activities to observe have created the characteristic picture of contemporary village life. The city’s promise of economic and cultural prosperity, social attachment, and lived liberalism has … Read more
In 1991, the Heineken Treat and Information Centre opened its doors to visitors. It was located on the site of a former brewery in De Pijp district of Amsterdam, close to the city center. Initially, it offered tours of the brewery and presented the history of the brand to its visitors. Over the years, it … Read more
This is an excerpt from a draft of an article that will appear in 2022 in an anthology on human(e) learning spaces by Christine Kohlert, published by Springer. Innovation deals with the future by intervening in our environment and shaping it. But if we don’t just want to optimize existing solutions or innovate incrementally, we … Read more
There is no doubt that joyful work is better than joyless work. However, not everything with the label “joyful”, “passion”, or “happiness” lives up to its promise. Often, joy is seen as a means to an end, rather than a goal worth pursuing on its own. There is a major pitfall for any project that … Read more
We have been witnessing a major shift in our learning landscapes, especially in higher education. The importance of the generalist has declined and that of experts has increased. We are faced with exponential knowledge growth, and the accumulated knowledge is more accessible to us than ever before, through digitization. You could also say we are … Read more
Change management has a bad reputation. And rightly so, since it quite often fails. Again and again, new methods and instruments are developed and applied to deal with this. Why does change management fail nonetheless? The answer to this is that something essential is missing, especially when dealing with the challenges we face in the … Read more
