My next book is going to be about the power of the mind. Everything from mind techniques, neuroscience, habits, flow and of course future trends. Placebo effect For example, if I were a Pharma company, I would seriously study placebo effects. It is very powerful. You are what you think. Some theories suggest you can
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Fast failure I always hated the notion of “fail fast” in the context of startups. The whole purpose of starting a business is not to fail. I understand the sentiment. You need to fail to learn. We work with a lot of innovation directors, and the standard question is the size of the failure fund.
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I had the pleasure of speaking at The Green Alley Awards in Berlin as patron and judge about climate change and about going circular. Here is my talk: Entrepreneurs get it I am the entrepreneur in residence for Sustainable Nation where I have the pleasure to work with lots of very interesting eco-entrepreneurs. The startups
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I had the pleasure of moderating a panel session at Entrepreneur Anonymous about the gig economy. So I did some research. The USA, UK and Dutch figures are very interesting. Figures from the USA In the USA the number of freelancers is 53 million. That is 34% of the USA labour market. Intuit estimates that this
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“Messy” will tell you that rules don’t work. Particularly in a very dynamic environment. The only thing that works are guiding principles. Hence “Principles: Life and Work” by Ray Dalio. Ray Dalio is the founder of Bridgewater. Principles Principles are fundamental truths that serve as the foundations for behaviour that gets you what you want
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Innovation trends Innovation literature talks about concepts such as increasing internal clock speed, application of anthropology, the use of serendipity, the focus on execution and the creation of a big tolerance for mistakes, which includes the need for a failure fund. I think that the innovators of the future have to consider four main things.
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Are you messy? I am very messy. So any book that suggests that messy is good, I am in. “Hence Messy: How to Be Creative and Resilient in a Tidy-Minded World” Embrace the mess The argument of this book is that we often succumb to the temptation of a tidy-minded approach when we would be
Radio Listen to Ron talk about the books that have interested him on Newstalk Radio. The shift In this episode, Ron talks about The Shift by Linda Gratton. In ‘The Shift’, Professor at London Business School Lynda Gratton takes a look ground-breaking look at the five forces that will fundamentally change the way we work
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This is an old one! This is part of a talk I did at the The Long Debate, Inventorium (part of the Dublin Innovation Festival). We talked a lot about the current state of things in Ireland (This was 2010 so things were not as positive as you can imagine!) Me at 9:17: https://vimeo.com/17798775
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I was asked to write an article for “Doing business in Kinsale”, an 80-page book highlighting why this famous town has built a well-deserved reputation as a great place to live and work. You can download it here. Urbanisation is dead You can replace Kinsale with a few other nice places to live. I do think
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