Group flow I am a huge fan of Steve Kotler. His book “The rise of superman” is a must-read for anyone interested in flow, productivity, performance and human resource management. It is the first time I heard about the pursuit of companies to achieve group flow. Boosting Conscious processing can only handle about 12033 bits […]
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If AI has taken over the world, would it let you know? That is the question I got from reading “The Seventh Sense: Power, Fortune, and Survival in the Age of Networks”. If you want history lessons about how power works this is a book to read. If you want to read a book of who
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I am over 50. I was alive before the internet. When I read “The Shallows”, I got concerned about what the internet does do to the brains of our children. I started to feel old. Thankfully I picked up “Originals”, where old people are more creative than the internet generation. From that perspective, “The end
Neuroscience is starting to appear in lots of books. In books about marketing, ICT, HRM, leadership, technology, etc. Surprisingly less so in sales. Even more surprising, if you know that one in nine is working in sales in the USA alone. Salespeople are ineffective The statistics are staggering. The majority of salespeople are hindering sales instead
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Tools of titans We are huge fans of Tim Ferris. He is one of our VUCA gurus. I was looking forward to his new book “Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers”. Listen to the podcasts instead Just finished the book and it has been a struggle. Not
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“Motivate Yourself” by Andro Donovan focusses on finding your purpose. As Mark Twain said, “The two most important days in your life are the day you are born, and the day you find out why.” Unless you are a lucky person, finding your purpose is not easy. Let alone living it. Tips to find your purpose
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Be sustainable “Climate change” by Joseph Romm is too important to ignore. If our planet heats up above 4 degrees, our children will not have children. At the Sustainability Gathering in November, it was referred to as a potential “Global Syria on steroids”. Sustainability will become the new black. Backed by heavy regulation, consumer demand and
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I have been reading buckets of books on future trends. I nearly missed Richard Watson’s “Digital vs. Human”. It is a cracker. Because it goes far beyond the technology and focusses more on the potential social implications of the speed of change. And we are running out of time. If you don’t believe me, try
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Leadership For a long time, I have been trying to figure out why the leadership of particularly large companies is not acting faster. They know They know the wave of creative destruction is coming. They know their business model is being disrupted. They know that their organisational model is not fit for purpose. They know
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Transform I was invited to speak at a Great Place to Work event. We have been fans of GptW for a long time. I talked about the future of work. At the event, I had the pleasure to meet Neil O’Brien. He did a cracking talk from his book “Time to fly”. A book about how
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