Recently, our co-founder Markus F. Peschl gave an interview for the Becoming a Sustainable Leader podcast with Anna Jurgaś. They talked about the most important leadership qualities for the 21st century and how managers can put them into practice. In this blog post, we summarize the key points of their conversation. You can listen to … Read more
In the place of one of Vienna’s busiest shopping streets – the Landstraße, the order of the Elisabethines founded their convent about 300 years ago. Its purpose: a hospital for the district’s community. In addition to nursing, one of the main focuses of the convent sisters was what we would today call “community work”: they … Read more
At the heart of the traditional approach to strategy lies the assumption that by applying a set of powerful analytic tools, executives can predict the future of any business accurately enough to allow them to choose a clear strategic direction. In relatively stable businesses, that approach continues to work well. But it tends to break … Read more
Through this article, we are starting a series of interviews with our clients and partners. In them, we will together explore the insights and experiences from our previous projects. Let’s start with a quick overview of our first project in the series. Afterwards, we will continue to the interview itself. What was this project about? … Read more
How to develop a strategy? Come on, I know how to develop strategies, you might say. There are related questions which are not trivial, such as how to put strategy into action or how to design the process both bottom-up and top-down, nevertheless strategy development is an established process. So, why to deal with strategy … Read more
The question of how to compose a group of people working effectively together is becoming increasingly important. On the one hand, we are facing major societal challenges (climate crisis, poverty, income inequality), which will heavily influence quality of life, and can’t be tackled by a single person. There is a widespread belief that a group … 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 This article is one of a … Read more
Looking back at 2020, there is no doubt that we live in a VUCA world. The acronym first coined in the army is now widely applied to business and society. It describes a world which is volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous. But what do those terms mean? And how do they affect our organizations? Volatile: … Read more
Space heavily influences our well-being and our performance – this has been nothing new for a long time. Also, the fact that activities require different environments has gotten around; hence we no longer spend the whole day at our work desk. Future-oriented companies try to integrate the needs of their employees and the requirements of … 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 This is a blog post in … Read more
