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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

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

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

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