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  • Spiral Networks

    Some days, stars are perfectly aligned, and sudden insights create these wonderful aha-experiences. A couple of weeks ago, I was sitting together with Philippe Coullomb and Charles Collingwood-boots, co-founders of http://www.wheretofromhere.asia and initiators of the Sydney chapter of Corporate Rebels United. They shared their work about “Patches and Nodes”, a G+ Community of change agents… Read more

  • Mavericks in a corporate world

    On 6 June 2013, I presented “Open Innovation Systems – Maverick Ventures in a Corporate World” during the Amplify Festival in Sydney. The Livestream of the talk is available here:   This blog post is documenting the genesis of that talk, therefore not really or only a transcript, but passing the same messages through the… Read more

  • 10 questions to self-assess your innovation efforts

    The fantastic Amplify festival in Sydney has just come to an end. What a week! The curation for this event by Annalie Killian (@maverickwoman) from AMP was just outstanding. It is very rare to such a rich set of speakers coming together for one week. This is even more exceptional if you’d know that this… Read more

  • Disruptive times call for positive, creative disruptors: Rebel Jam Update

    UPDATE: you can find the links to the recordings of all the Rebel Jam talks here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0At_G3sEqOh0YdFQ1T3ZUYWFUNW1aR1pLN3JNV0pIbUE&usp=sharing It’s easy to be an innovator and entrepreneur in start-up. Not so inside large organizations — companies, government agencies, healthcare systems.  The competencies and mindset you need to create change and succeed are different for rebels inside the… Read more

  • 9 Lessons from Rune on Leadingship

    Since my post “The End of Leadership”, the topic of Leadership vs. Leadingship keeps buzzing in my head. I further elaborated on the topic in a subsequent post “Leading from the Edge”.  As many of my readers know, the inspiration muze for these posts was Rune Kvist Olsen from Norway. Rune is fine-tuning the concept by… Read more

  • The Future is Analogue

    Last week, I attended the PurpleBeach launch event (check out the twitter stream at #purplebeachlaunch). It’s one of those events that got me again into hyper-reflection mode. I was not really sure what the launch was about – initially I thought it was about the launch of a new consultancy firm – but once on… Read more