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  • Trend-4: Everything important has to do Aesthetic, Moral and Spiritual advancement

    This trend is part of my five trends for human advancement. For an overview and background, check here: During my sabbatical, I had the luxury of visiting many art related expositions and retrospectives. I have been particularly struck by the beauty ànd the intensity of work from artists like Dries Van Noten (celebrated Belgian fashion… Read more

  • Trend-3: Coherence of narrative, motives, and governance

    This trend is part of my five trends for human advancement. For an overview and background, check here: As described in trend-2, patrimony is stored memory of the underlying structure of an organisation. Culture as recorded know-how. To advance humanistic organisations we need to advance this structure. Structure is more than organisational structure like hierarchies… Read more

  • Trend-1: High quality connections

    This trend is part of my five trends for human advancement. For an overview and background, check here: Calm containers – Petervan Productions 2017 Any change or advancement happens between human beings, in the relationship, in the connection and exchange. The quality of our human connections is indicative of the quality of emerging change. But… Read more

  • Five trends for human advancement

    Petervan Production 2017 – Acryl on canvas – 60x60cm 2017 was a special year for me. I decided to disconnect from corporate life for a yearlong sabbatical focusing on art creation, and reflecting on the possible role of artists to enable structural change in organisations. Over the last 10 years or so, I experimented creating… Read more

  • Petervan’s Delicacies – Week 4 Dec 2017

    Edition-110 of Delicacies: As usual, max 5 articles that I found interesting and worth re-reading. Handpicked, no robots. Minimalism in curation. Enjoy! About business blockchain platforms. Excellent analysis by R3’s Richard Brown: https://www.r3.com/blog/2017/12/04/corda-is-the-future-of-enterprise-software/ About the network area ending male dominated power structures. By Harold Jarche: http://jarche.com/2017/11/our-future-is-networked-and-feminine/ About some misconceptions/alternatives regarding profound change in organisations. By… Read more

  • Trend-2: Respect for the collective unconscious

    This trend is part of my five trends for human advancement. For an overview and background, check here: A lot of change initiatives only scratch the surface of the systems they try to change. They are tactical, short term and full of platitudes. I would like to suggest an almost Jungian analysis of organisations and… Read more