Future Day 2022 — What future can we expect?
Yesterday was future day. On last year’s future day, the pandemic was still the central theme. Now the news has shifted to humanity’s latest armed conflict — one many hadn’t…
7 “Future of Work” Trends, now that the Future has gone mainstream
The last years were a tremendous acceleration. Remote work, still considered even “dangerous” by some only a couple of years ago, has made way for the new normality of hybrid…
The importance of being held accountable in the midst of transformation— a different kind of Gender Gap
Leaders around the world, in businesses, nations and communities are responding very differently to the current planetary situation. On the one hand this has been showing how we are in…
Rapidly building remote Teams
The trajectory of the coronavirus (Covid-19) outbreak is making it increasingly likely that companies in major cities will be asked to increase their reliance on remote work. While the possibility…
Customer Focus Starts with Employee Focus
The contemporary practices of design and innovation have ingrained the importance of customer focus. Whether in Design Thinking, Lean, Business Model Canvas, or even Agile, all of our frameworks, tools,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
