Markus F. Peschl

“What if we were to think of education as opening out into a terrain that is ever-unfolding? What if it were a way of studying with the world we inhabit, rather than making studies of the beings and things we find there?” (Ingold 2022, ii). From Knowledge Transfer to Co-Becoming: Why Education Needs a Radical … Read more

In our previous post, we have talked about the importance and nature of joy. We also said that to make work joyful, it’s necessary to bring purpose back to work. As we have seen, joy (eudaimonia) is not just about feeling well, having fun, or satisfying superficial needs. Rather, joy is about engaging in meaningful … Read more

Have you ever wondered why it’s so hard to innovate? Most activities in our work environments are highly standardized, we have to follow rules and processes, and we have established agreed-upon routines to accomplish certain tasks. These processes create the expectation that if you have certain competencies, there are certain methods that must be applied … Read more

Put yourself in the following situation for a moment. You have arrived at the end of an innovation process or a design thinking workshop, you clap your hands, and the smile on your face shows the other participants the success of this creative process. But ask yourself, how often has an unspoken feeling crept up … Read more

When people talk about joy, they often have in mind a rather superficial form of happiness. But we are not going to talk about mere happiness or fun at work. For us, joy is not so much about having a pleasurable moment or a happy experience. We think of joy similarly to how Aristotle saw … Read more

Today’s challenges, rapid and unpredictable technological progress, and the socio-economic upheavals of our time require a completely new understanding of education. The traditional education system is mainly geared towards conveying knowledge from the past. What is needed, however, is a system that looks at people in their entirety and enables them to discover the constantly … 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 the final blog post … 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 Before we get into the topic, … Read more

This is an excerpt from a draft of an article that will appear in 2022 in an anthology on human(e) learning spaces by Christine Kohlert, published by Springer. Innovation deals with the future by intervening in our environment and shaping it. But if we don’t just want to optimize existing solutions or innovate incrementally, we … 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