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4 Glasses Through Which to See Your Work Differently
Hide Enomoto is a pioneer in professional coaching in his home country Japan and an initiator of the Transition Town movement in Japan as well as in Fujino, the community with which he currently...
Why There Is Not an Ideal Organization, Only a More Balanced Mindset
Ulrich Schoop is the Co-Founder of The Dive, a combination of a consultancy, community and movement for social innovations. In an interview, he talks about what makes it so difficult for leaders to change, the...
Why We Cannot Be Fulfilled as long as We Get Everything
Claudia Beck is a life coach, who recently started her coaching business after decades of experience as an executive in the retail and finance industries. Originally from Austria, Claudia has lived in the US, UK,...
Work is One Thing, Compensation is Another Thing
Barry Schwartz is a professor in Psychology at Haas Business School at UC Berkeley, who previously taught at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania for 45 years. He is the author of many books, the most...
The Urgent Conversation We Need to Have as a Society
When you talk with people a bit longer about what they like or dislike about their work, they will at some point say something about their actual workplace. The physical spaces, where we perform...
Clearing the Way for the New Generation
Last summer I found a co-working space called SF17 close to Munich’s beautiful English Garden to hold one of my mental training workshops. The owner of SF17 introduced me to Florian Höfling, business coach...
How to Create a Culture of Contribution
At Burning Man last year, when I talked about my search for visionary thoughts on the future of work, many people said I need to meet Shane Metcalf, an entrepreneur with progressive views in...
Why Companies Need a Purpose and Individuals a Mantra
I started to believe that great leadership exists and it is possible to live your highest life priorities within your work when I first read The Big Five for Life four years ago. The...
Communities and the Rise of New Forms of Intelligence
After a couple of rainy days it is surprisingly sunny as I am driving from Watertown to Cambridge in Massachusetts to meet Kathleen Kennedy, Executive Director at MIT Center of Collective Intelligence. Kathleen has...
Why There Is No Such Thing as a Life Purpose
It is Friday afternoon. A group of people has gathered in California for a yoga retreat. Everybody shares his/her intention for that weekend. Among us is a woman in her early 30s with a...