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At the breakfast at Hindsgavl Slot castle yesterday, they had homemade honey from their own bees, salami from animals on the farm, apple juice from their own apples and marmalade from their own strawberries. The castle is impressive, the height of the auditorium is stunning, the tech of the hotel is perfect, but it […]
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Interview with Frank Ferro, Director Insights at PostNL. In 1924 Miguel de Unamuno wrote: “Sceptic does not mean him who doubts, but him who investigates or researches as opposed to him who asserts and thinks that he has found.” One hundred years later this message is more important than ever. The root of the word […]
Interview with Nils Kjetil Vestmoen Nilsen, Digital Innovation Manager at Schlumberger. People like to talk about the need to take ‘calculated risks’ in business. But calculated risks are an illusion. The meaning of the word “calculated” is “done with full awareness of the likely consequences.” Raise your hand if you think it’s possible to have […]
Interview with Thomas Djurso, Country Manager for Cognizant in Denmark. Here is a refreshing approach to building a team: Make people connect with each other as humans, not just as colleagues. And no, I am not talking about infrequent kick-off meetings that happen way too seldom, or an after-work, which is usually some friends […]
This episode of The Creativity Suite is anonymous. Here is a question for you: If knowing the right person to make your ideas happen is so valuable, and if knowing how to correctly ask them for what you need is crucial for innovation, then why are we not spending more time helping people develop […]
Interview with Dawid Sold, Managing Director of G4S in Serbia. When the book Blue Ocean Strategy came out in 2004 it became a big hit with companies. The book is built around a metaphor of the “blue ocean” and “red ocean” In the red ocean, “companies try to outperform their rivals to grab a greater […]
This message is inspired by the word that stuck with me after interviewing creatives in South Korea: The word was “diligence”. Some people look at the economic success of South Korea and say: “It’s because they work so hard.” Or because they “work so much”. Some even say: “It’s because they work TOO hard, […]
Question: How often per day would you say you have a creative thought? 1-10 times per day? 11-100? 101-1000? 1001-10,000? For this survey, my bar for what constitutes a creative thought is quite low. I am not talking of “painting a painting” or “coming up with a breakthrough invention.” I am talking about simple everyday […]
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Interview with Tore von Würden, Country Director Denmark/Norway/Iceland for Amgen. The idea that “the customer is always right” is outdated. The customer often does not know what they want. How many mobile phone users would have said that they wanted the iPhone before it was launched, just to take a famous example. And to […]
Last night (at midnight) I delivered a virtual Masterclass on creativity for Hellomonday (I did it from a hotel room in Vienna and because Hello Monday is in Australia it meant doing it at midnight for me.) I started the virtual Masterclass by saying that the creative process makes us happy! There is a value […]