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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 […]
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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 The idea that “the customer is always right” is outdated.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 […]
Interview with Mauro Porcini, SVP & Chief Design Officer at PepsiCo. Here is what most people get wrong about intuition: They think intuition just “happens”. It doesn’t. The reason for this misunderstanding could come from how the word is defined. Intuition is defined as “the ability to understand something instinctively, without the need for […]
A couple of days ago, I accidentally cracked the screen on my Mac so I had no computer. While it was at service yesterday, I decided to take the day off and paddle my new kayak from the store in the central of Stockholm to my island. After all – it was a beautifully […]
Interview with Lise Karstensen, Head of Nordics, Nokia Enterprise and Country Director. You have heard about Gatekeepers – as in “someone who has the power to decide who gets particular resources and opportunities, and who does not”, and Gatekeepers can be frustrating, annoying and irritating to run into. But there is another […]
One of the people I met on my trip to Singapore this week was fellow speaker YuJin Wong. YuJin speaks on the very important topic of Mental Wellbeing and he told me that one of the pillars of his speech is to talk about the need to do something creative in your life. I […]
Interview with Patricio Melo , Executive Vice President, Media/Chief Technology Officer at Davivienda. Here is an interesting observation: Believe that people will change, adapt new technology and innovate and it’s a much better chance that they will. Doubt that they will, and they will not. This lesson was given to me by Patricio Melo , […]
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