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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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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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The Future of Healthcare

Here a recent presentation on the Future of Healthcare from a Brightidea Birds of a Feather event in Newport Beach, California.  

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Leadership in the time of VUCA — Four Pillars for Change and Innovation Leaders

What used to seem stable has become increasingly volatile. While we have more data than ever we are more uncertain about the future than ever. In a planetary context, the world has become overwhelmingly complex. Overall, we are less clear about things than ever. So how do you lead in times of Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity […]

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The Future of Working Summit

On March 20, 2015 together with our partners from Hummingbird Labs we gathered a group of future thinkers at the Vodafone Innovation Center in San Francisco, to evolve ideas around the Future of Working. The one-day summit was focused around key future trends and resulted in a sixty page document available for download. From our partner Tirza Hollenhorst […]