Book review

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”.

Military Business is starting to realise that you can learn a lot from the military. It makes sense, the military in specific have been training leadership for centuries. Learned that from https://inn-spiratie.nl/. The implication of leadership failure is also a lot more serious. Here are a few books to read: Ten rules Extreme ownership  Flow

Deep work, mastery and arts are the future of humanity. Cirque de Soleil Liana and I went to Cirque de Soleil in Malaga. A fantastic show and I was in awe. Brought to tears. Afterwards, we went for some drinks and tapas in beautiful Malaga, one of the oldest cities in the world. “The future,

I have read a few scary books in my time. “Bandwashed”, “Future Crimes”, “Climate change” to name a few. “The Ecology of Commerce: A Declaration of Sustainability” fits right in there. What is scary about this book is the picture it paints on how we are making a complete mess of our world. We are

Narrow artificial intelligence for your business AI is capturing the imagination of everyone I talk to. Most of us are concerned. It does not matter what part of the spectrum you are, (from Skynet to Utopia) it will impact on your business model. You can start by considering how narrow AI can improve your business

Our next strategic retreat is in November. You can book here. Five days to transform your business. Synchronicity Have you ever been to a place where everything you have worked on, all the hundreds of business book you have read, all the subjects you have written about, all the conferences you spoke at, all the

There is no doubt in my mind. AR and VR are hotspots, with an immense amount of applications, starting with gaming, sales, marketing, training and instruction. But it also has a long way to go. The technology definitely was not as sophisticated as I expected it to be. It is all still too clunky. The

To be the disruptor or the disrupted. You have a choice. This perspective on future trends might help. Flash Foresight I am a huge fan of Daniel Burrus. The author of “Flash Foresight“. He brings a lot of sense to trends and perspectives on the future. Particularly the distinction between hard trends (inevitable) and soft

Strategy As I am researching my next book, I  have been going through the hundreds of books we covered with our clients. You come to the startling and disappointing conclusion that the business thinking has not changed that much. It starts with Marcus Aurelius and it ends with Drucker. A lot of the core principles