Book review

Leadership and strategy are hot topics for our clients. In our Bookbuzz sessions, we normally use “33 strategies of war” by Robert Greene or “The strategy book” by Max Mckeown. Fundamental questions “Why do you matter?” and “where are you going?” are fundamental questions in those sessions. Increasingly we have come to the conclusion that

Culture is too slow We were speaking at the IMEX conference and covered fours subject, culture, strategy, innovation and engagement. Amazing conference. Amazing sector. And a sector that is dealing with a lot of challenges, but also some very interesting opportunities. We were asked to brief our audience (managing a total budget of 2 billion)

Power of the mind We have always had an interest in the power of the human mind. Which goes beyond being mindful, but also moves into the paranormal, spirituality, neuroscience, hypnosis, auras, chakras, Tao, physics., science fiction, gaming and more relevant to business, performance, decision making and strategy. Vision and decision-making Core elements in business

Mindfulness Mindfulness is the new black in business. It is everywhere. And not just as part of personal or self-development, but as part of the DNA of businesses. We are doing quite some work on briefing companies about happy, mindful staff with a sense of purpose. It makes perfect business sense. Happy staff is 25%

Trend watching For me, trend watching started a long time ago with Faith Popcorn and the popcorn report. Then we had “Funky business”, “Future files”, “Megachange 2050”, “The Shift” and a speeding up of more books on the future in the last year. Books such as “The second machine age”, ‘Future vision”, “Exponential organisations” and

Frightening stats and trends We were very taken by a book called “Leading from the emerging future”, which starts with some frightening statistics (with “Frugal innovation” adding a few): We leave an ecologic footprint of 1.5 planets Food prices are expected to double by 2030 In USA 1% owns more that the entire bottom 90%

Future proofing We are increasingly asked questions about “future proofing” business by our clients. We then talk about technology trends, VUCA, speed and understanding exponential change. It doesn’t always resonate. Too much science fiction. Brett King Last week I had the pleasure of talking to Brett King, the author of “Bank 3.0” and “Breaking bank”

Marketing is now reputation management Your brand is the sum of the customer experiences. Nearly 80% of all buying decisions are checked online, using an average of 10 sources. Customer feedback is the most prominent source. Most of these customer experiences are now shared online. Resulting in word of mouth on steroids. Completely transparent. With