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  • Management Innovation: Extreme Management Makeover

    Stumbled upon this great blog post by Gary Hamel in the WSJ. Extremely relevant if your business is a service business run by first-level employees. It’s based on the work of Vineet Nayar at HCL Technologies (HCLT). It’s now all documented in this great book Employees First Customer Second: Turning Conventional Management Upside Down If… Read more

  • We are as gods and might as well get good at it

    Check out Raw Dawson’s blog post of today with superb video TURNING INTO GODS – ‘Concept Teaser’ from jason silva on Vimeo. Indeed today it is entirely appropriate for us to be thinking in terms of human transformation, and the power we have at our disposal. The cycle has swung back, and once again there… Read more

  • Heretic Team Glue

    Last week we had a great team off-site. We arrived late afternoon in the fantastic location of Chateau de la Poste, close to Namur, Belgium. Built in 1895, the Château de la Poste was the residence, for more than forty years, of Princess Clementine, daughter of King Léopold II. It later was sold to the… Read more

  • We are what we choose

    Yesterday – in one of those uncontrolled mixed moments of vacation, winding down, browsing, boredom – I did a health check on one of those “how-old-will-you-get-if-you- keep-this-lifestyle” sites.   The answer was 75   The test told me that I could extend this by probably a year or so, if I gave up all the… Read more

  • Social Currency: My Personal Identity

    Recently came across this great site by Dan Robles. One of his latest posts Will Social Capitalism Replace Market Capitalism? (Parts 1&2) included great video material on how social currency can change industries. His forecasting example is the airline industry. And it’s even not so far fetched. What if you could “Time-Share” seats in private… Read more

  • Creative juices everywhere

    These days, when i kick-off an innovation workshop, i ask the participants “tell me about your hobbies/interests when you were 16-18 years old”. The answers and the resulting effect are surprising. First, it opens up people in a way they are not used to. The come out of their “i-am-at-work” comfort zone. Some people that… Read more