How purpose leadership can help shape the future
What does it mean to develop leadership in such a way that it no longer chases short-term goals and is controlled externally, but instead has a deeper meaning? In other words, how can you develop purposeful leadership and start shaping the future? Julia von Winterfeldt,…
Playing in the digital age
Dear friends, I like to ask you for input for my new book „Being Human in the Digital Age“? How would you answer the following questions? What do you associate with playing? What are your playgrounds? Why don’t we play (any) more? What does it…
Being Human in the Digital Age
The digital transformation was one of the buzz words at this year’s World Economic Forum in January 2019. Walking the streets there were numerous signs for special events, receptions, panels, speeches or forums on the topic. All of them had in common that there was…
Meet us at the World Economic Forum 2019 in Davos
For the fifth time we will be visiting the World Economic Forum in Davos. This year will be different and very special. Together with The Art of New we have organized two events entitled „The Art of New Business: Body, Mind and Soul of Digitization“…
Digitization as an engine for co-creating joy
In June 2018 Peter Dumont, CEO of The Art of New, and I had the pleasure of speaking with Steve Denning, best-selling author and Forbes contributor. In our interview we talked about his latest book „The Age of Agile: How Smart Companies Are Transforming the Way…
Being human in the digital age
As much as the title sounds like an oxymoron; it is not. The opposite is the case. I believe that being human in the digital age is ever more important and, thanks to technology, feasible. Digitization is “taking over our world” No doubt digitization is…
Purpose & Vision: Overcoming Trump’s Fear-Driven Capitalism, Part 2
Trump’s economic policies are starkly different from his predecessors and deviates from mainstream economics and political thinking. Take, for example, his massive tax cuts for the corporate world or his initiated trade wars. Just by looking at recent economic numbers and the booming stock market…
A Human Business Primer: Overcoming Trump’s Fear-Driven Capitalism, Part 1
This is not another attack on Trump. Actually, I don’t really care too much about Trump. What I do care about are the implications of his policies, ideology, worldview, decisions, moods, and, believe it or not, at times his tweets. And yet, it is not…
Planning is Fear. Instead, Work with Life and Joy.
I have worked in professional project management for quite a number of years. Over the last years, I have moved away from classical project management and one of its core activities: planning. There are a number of reasons for this. First of all, I believe that…