Clay being shaped

Over the past years, human kind has invented a variety of helpful tools. What we haven’t figured out yet is an answer to the question as to why humans do exist. Edge published a conversation with Kai-Fu Lee on his thoughts about the relationship between AI and the human existence: “We are here to create”. Gathering … Read more

Living Systems and Organizations

List of Guiding Principle Articles Prelude: What Organizations Have in Common With Living Systems Principle #1: Radical Openness Principle #2: Sensing the Core Principle #3: Identifying and Bringing to Life Latent Potentials Principle #4: Designing and Co-creating Principle #5: Emergence Principle #6: Enabling Principle #7: Learning from the Future as it Emerges theLivingCore Guiding Principles … Read more

Das ist eine Glühbirne

Innovation is on everyone’s lips these days. However, the term is used in a rather inflationary way, or without much consideration. Literature on the topic provides various definitions and approaches. In order to clarify the broad concept of innovation and narrow it down to a consistent meaning, we provide a brief overview and summary of … Read more

A few weeks ago, I was asked in an interview about how to get employees back to the office. How should we motivate them? What should we add to the workplace? I think this question is wrong at its core. Why would we need to motivate employees to get into the office at all? What … Read more

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