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“Questions you cannot answer are usually far better for you than answers you cannot question.” – Yuval Noah Harari How true … I don’t have much to add.

Employees are not part of organisations, but their environment. Systemic professionals, following Niklas Luhmann, say it pointedly: “Organisations have their own logic, their own dynamics, in which people participate, but which are controlled and developed beyond these people. Humanities scholars […]

Head – heart – hands, three levels that need to be addressed in order to make experience comprehensively tangible. Today, the focus is on implementation. A lot of work is being done with prototype construction, fast, very rapidly paced, the […]

Today was about emotion. How do you design experience so that it triggers specific feelings and moods? Entirely in keeping with the theme, to kick off we were served a somewhat sweet, palate-pleasing juice drink made of fresh strawberries, apples, […]

We are working in a multi-storey building in the harbor district. It has an industrial / loft atmosphere with wooden floors, glass, and steel. The workshop room looks out over the water in the harbor, with a freighter or two. […]

Through a number of coincidences, I came across Kaospilot, a business school that focuses on design, entrepreneurship, and social innovation and is based in Aarhus/DK. I am really curious to see how this turns out and have decided to experiment […]

A customer recently told me that he had found a way to multiply his time. “It’s like having a time machine,” he said enthusiastically. “It clicks in when I succeed at doing only one thing.” He discovered it more or […]

During a recent three-week trip to Myanmar, I occupied myself with the question of the implicit place we (i.e., executives, managers, and consultants in Germany and let’s say in the German-speaking world) mentally assign to leadership on the continuum between […]