Book review

Picked up “The Zeronauts: Breaking the Sustainability Barrier”. Interesting mix of sustainability, innovation, cradle to cradle and innovation. Any type of pollution is criminal, you will be sued as an organisation and there are ways to transform your business. New gold Things we have taken for free will become the new gold. Water, waste, carbon. What […]

Intrapreneurship is a hot topic. It will replace innovation as the buzzword for the next three years. Peter Hinssen, Eric Ries and Freek Vermeulen have written some excellent books on the topic. Zone to win The one book to read if you are on the management team of a large corporation is “Zone to Win: Organising

Anthropology is the new black. Brandwashed Martin Lindstrom is the author of “Brandwashed”. My all-time favourite dark book about marketing. I think it was one of the first mentioned neuroscience as a selling tool. “Small Data: The Tiny Clues That Uncover Huge Trends”, describes how he takes an anthropologic approach to help companies rebrand and

When you read “Technology versus Humanity” you will realise how important leadership is going to be in the future. Extraordinary times need extraordinary leadership. Read that book and 4 more.  Man against machine A cracking book asking some very pertinent questions about where technology is bringing technology. We have no idea what we are playing with

In a world in turbulence, you need fitness, movement and resilience. I wrote a book about it. You can order it here. Exponential and self-amplifying technology I just finished reading a few scare books about where technology is going to bring us. As human beings, we do not understand exponential or self-amplifying. Particularly the impact

Skin in the game is the antidote to the abdication of responsibility and it is badly needed. If more people would experience the consequences of their decisions and advice, the world would look a better place. Lindy effect I am a huge fan of Taleb. I think “Antifragile” is a classic that should be read

What is the collective health of your organisation? Are you healthy? Are you treated as a racehorse? Imagine if you owned a $5 million thoroughbred racehorse. I take a bet you would pay a lot of attention to how you feed and train the horse. How much is your own body and mind worth? Are

Leadership is the new black. CEOs with lower pay run companies with better performance In “Buddhist economics”, I read that a recent study of CEO pay (value of total annual compensation) and the performance of the CEO’s company shows that as CEO pay goes up, the company performance goes down. CEOs with lower pay run

The social impact of technology As human beings, we do not understand exponential or self-amplifying. Particularly the impact on humanity. Richard Watson has written about it extensively. For example in “Digital versus human”.“Life 3.0” is not that dissimilar. We need to be careful what we wish for. Gerd Leonard I came across Gerd Leonhard as

Blue Ocean Strategy I was never a fan of “Blue Ocean Strategy”. In my view, it was a case of ‘Old wine in new sacks” (Dutch saying). It sounds too much as the new product/new market combination from the Ansoff matrix. Blue Ocean Shift Was going to give it another shot with “Blue Ocean Shift”.