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Are you ready for 2025?

What a year 2024 has been. Full of surprises, good and bad. I hope the good prevailed in your personal and professional life. Earth hit a grim milestone earlier this year: The planet not only had its warmest January on record, but also, for the first time, its average temperature over 12 consecutive months was […]

How to develop a positive impact organization?

If you are discouraged by the poly-crisis in the world, consider improving your organization’s positive impact. Or start a company! A positive organization with a positive culture, leadership, and strategy that makes a measurable positive impact. With that, both the organization and the customers flourish. On to more applicants, better performance, happy customers, and solutions […]

How to develop a positive-impact organization?

If you are discouraged by the poly-crisis in the world, consider improving your organization’s positive impact. Or start a company! A positive organization with a positive culture, leadership, and strategy that makes a measurable positive impact. With that, both the organization and the customers flourish. On to more applicants, better performance, happy customers, and solutions […]

The world in 2035

We’re all time travelers into the future and we cannot predict what will happen over there. But if you’d like a travel guide, go with Langdon Morris’s thought-provoking book “Hello Future! The World in 2035”. Morris discusses 32 what-if scenarios to help you think about the unknown territory we’re heading into, we’ll learn eight driving […]

What will be normal in the future?

In this era of change and challenges everyone needs to prepare for what the future may bring. Or better said, for the future that we co-create as humanity. Because all organizations, professionals, individuals, governments, and communities play their part in developing the future. It’s not something that occurs all of a sudden. So, what will […]

Culture, strategy, and agility

With the pace of change accelerating, organizations must be agile and adaptive. They must respond quickly to new threats and opportunities to keep delivering results and adding value to their customers, employees, shareholders, and community. Let’s explore what that means for the strategy, structure, and culture of future-fit organizations – inspired by Gary Bolles, author […]

What’s the future we want to create?

In my exploration of what positive, future-fit organizations need I read Rob Hopkins’ book “From what is to what if – unleashing the power of imagination to create the future we want”. How can the founder of the Transition Towns movement inspire companies? Well, that’s easy. Positive organizations have a lot in common with the […]

Four forces for the future

Where is the world going? In his recent book “The Future is Back” Belgian professor Fons van Dyck explores the four driving forces of humanity – which therefore also shape our future: the human needs to explore (learn), to connect (bond), to defend, and to conquer (acquire). Those four forces correspond to the Competitive Values […]

Divided we fail, in dialogue we create the future

While we are facing climate change, geopolitical and military conflicts, and rapidly emerging technology such as AI – we’re suffering from polarization and individualism. In this time of increasing challenges and uncertainty we need dialogue, joint solutions, and efforts – but that seems further away than ever before. Inside and outside of organizations. That worries me – especially with the elections in […]

Prep your organization for 2030

Welcome to the new challenges: we are facing climate change, geopolitical and military conflicts, polarization, and rapidly emerging technology such as AI. People aren’t great at change, but we have to respond fast and everything comes at once. How future-proof are your organization and organizational culture? Preparing for the future is more important than ever. […]