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Creating the Future – Keynote at ICT Hub Belgrade

Using business model innovation as a tool to create a meaningful future. How you can shift toward purpose-driven profit, a culture of authentic relationships, and activate individual leadership across the organization.

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Worried about your year-end results?

Don’t be. It definitely won’t help and might make things worse. The good news is, there are things you can do instead.  Worry actually comes from the old German word for “wuergen”, which means to choke. And when you are choking, no oxygen is getting to your brain so your thinking is negatively impacted, and […]

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#CreationLeadership – A guide for Transformational Times

The massive transformations already underway in our world will require a whole new level of leadership. We summarized some of our teachings around this new kind of leadership in our “Introduction to #CreationLeadership”. It is meant to serve as an introduction on how we now need to approach creating reality: embodied, with emotional and cognitive […]

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Why Purpose is crucial for Intrapreneurship

“We would have quit a long time ago if this was a normal company project,” he said and looked at me with pride. He was one of a group of intrapreneurs we supported through an intrapreneurs bootcamp for one of our clients. His team had picked quite a challenge to work on, a challenge that […]

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The Future of Talent — Selecting, Developing and Engaging High-Potentials in a Shifting Organizational Context

Entrepreneurs have become the heroes of current business lore, and many companies realize that they need more entrepreneurial spirit in their organizations and future talent pools. But not everyone is cut out to be an entrepreneur. It would be foolish to think that you can turn all of your employees into entrepreneurs. Most people are […]

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Future of Work Scenarios — and the capacities that will make you thrive

March 1 marked the annual World Future Day. Organized by futurist organizations like the Millennium Project, the Association Of Professional Futurists, and the World Future Studies Federation, futurists from around the world participated in a twenty-four hour call following the various time zones to discuss latest insights into future dynamics. I had the pleasure and honor of co-hosting […]

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AI + Intrapreneurship = Future of Organizations?

“The most exciting breakthroughs of the 21st century will not occur because of technology, but because of an expanded concept of what it means to be human.” — John Naisbitt, futurist and author Much has been written about AI, and how its continuous advance into our lives seems inevitable: Andrew Ng, Google Brain and Coursera co-founder and Stanford […]

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Meaning not Mechanics — A human approach to Organizational Transformation

Businesses large and small have traditionally struggled with organizational transformation. This is not surprising. There are two major factors contributing to these struggles: Organizations have mostly focused on the mechanics of transformation instead of the meaning Organizations have neglected the deep personal impact transformation has on people’s lives and the significant emotional investment that is […]

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Five Key Tenets of Cultural Intrapreneurship

In my last article I made the distinction between structural or procedural intrapreneurship and cultural intrapreneurship.  Structural or procedural intrapreneurship is focused on the business or product that is the outcome of an intrapreneurship initiative, while cultural intrapreneurship focuses on using intrapreneurship experiences as a tool for long-term culture change toward the future of organizations. […]

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Toward embedding a Culture of Intrapreneurship

The basic concept of intrapreneurship is simple: Intrapreneurship is the act of behaving like an entrepreneur while working within a large organization. Intrapreneurship means that individuals in your organization look to the future and develop and test new ways of serving your customers beyond your current business model. It starts with an individual and later […]