You can’t predict the future. You can build the fitness to respond to it. Mind candy — fuel for strategic conversation about what’s next. A Startup Says It Grew Human Sperm in a Lab—and Used It to Make Embryos A startup says it has successfully grown functional human sperm in a lab and used the […]
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How to deal with the tidal wave of innovation. How to deal with the complexity of our converging technologies in the upcoming Intelligence Age. How to live in a world shaped by AI, quantum computing, robotics, and synthetic biology. Those are the questions. Using science fiction, Spiral Dynamics, Taoism, indigenous wisdom, nature, biocentrism and relational
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When Brian O´Kane and I wrote “Start Your Own Business,” we decided to write it as a workbook that asks the questions rather than trying to give the answers. In the case of a start-up, that is very difficult anyway, as everything is context and highly individual. The Book of Beautiful Questions Like Warren Berger,
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How do you predict the future? Recently finished two books on the subject. “Superforecasting” and “Better and faster”. In my view, it is about the information you consume every day. Rubbish in, rubbish out. Superforecasting, the art and science of prediction The book tries to describe the super forecasters (and they did a lot of
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In 2015 we tried this as a concept. A Bookbuzz MBA in a day. Based on the successful concept in Holland. We read a lot In Bookbuzz we have the best job in the world. We get to read a lot. So you don’t have to. And then we help you apply the lessons from
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The structure of the modern organisation rarely helps ignite the passion and creativity of the workforce. In short, today’s organisation structures are quickly becoming obsolete. Books We’ve covered tons of books that deal with organisations trying to get their companies to work more productively and to find a way to engage their employees more fully.
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It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts Both Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg came to Google as seasoned Silicon Valley business executives. After more than 10 years both have ended up feeling that, ‘it’s what you learn after you know it all that counts’. They say they relearned everything they knew
The employer-employee relationship is broken, and managers face a seemingly impossible dilemma when dealing with talent. The old model of guaranteed long-term employment no longer works in a business environment defined by continuous change, but neither does a system in which every employee acts as a free agent. The Alliance Reid Hoffman gets to the
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It was ‘The innovator’s dilemma’ that changed the pace of innovation forever. It was the first book that suggested that the consequence of true innovation is the destruction of your existing business model. “Demand” uses the now-famous example of the Kindle, where Jeff Bezos told a team to get out of the building and go
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