With the holidays nearing, you might finally find time to sit down with a good book. We have compiled our reading list to help you pick one for the long winter evenings. We asked our colleagues to recommend inspirational books for leaders and to explain their choice shortly. Let the selection below expand your mind…
Authors: Oliver Lukitsch & Markus Peschl This is a blog post in a series in which we introduce you to our guiding principles – principles we apply to ourselves and other organizations in their pursuit of radical innovation and change. This time around, we take a look at a centerpiece of our organizational thinking: latent…
Author: Oliver Lukitsch Blockchain technology has been used to supercharge financial markets. Yet, currently, the downsides of crypto investments are more visible than ever. We seem to witness a bursting bubble. Has the crypto hype thus been debunked? Or, once the fog lifts, will we learn which blockchain promise really holds water? A bursting bubble…
Author: Markus Peschl & Oliver Lukitsch Before we get into the topic, we want to make you aware that the current blog post belongs to a series in which we introduce the guiding principles of theLivingCore. These principles guide our work with our clients, and we apply them to ourselves too. If you like what…
Author: Thomas Fundneider 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…
Author: Lena Müller-Naendrup Strolling around in small, provincial villages and towns across Europe has become increasingly depressing over the past decades. Deserted local centers with empty, dusted shop windows and little daily activities to observe have created the characteristic picture of contemporary village life. The city’s promise of economic and cultural prosperity, social attachment, and…
Author: Michal Matlon In 1991, the Heineken Treat and Information Centre opened its doors to visitors. It was located on the site of a former brewery in De Pijp district of Amsterdam, close to the city center. Initially, it offered tours of the brewery and presented the history of the brand to its visitors. Over…
Author: Markus Peschl and Oliver Lukitsch This is a blog post in a series of articles about our guiding principles. We continually revisit these principles, apply them to ourselves and other organizations in their pursuit of profound innovation and change. This time, we’re taking a look at a notion we consider essential for understanding how…
Author: Markus F. Peschl 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…
Author: Oliver Lukitsch There is no doubt that joyful work is better than joyless work. However, not everything with the label “joyful”, “passion”, or “happiness” lives up to its promise. Often, joy is seen as a means to an end, rather than a goal worth pursuing on its own. There is a major pitfall for…
