Drawing Strength from Silence

Even after COVID, the increase in people with burnout symptoms and illnesses is not levelling off. On the contrary. Mark Lockwood knows how managers can protect themselves and their teams from burnout and at the same time increase their performance and satisfaction. I’ve spoken with the teacher of self-responsibility and spiritual transformation who founded an […]

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Contentious South Africa

In November 2022 I’ve held a Design Thinking Workshop in Imizamo Yethu, a townhip south of Capetown – and it was right there, during an evening walk that I decided to do this. Here is the first text which will soon become a podcast: Please understand this as work in progress. It’s early Sunday evening.I […]

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Design Thinking Workshop in Hout Bay

On October 9 and 10 I was invited to hold a design thinking workshop in Imizamu Yethu, a township in Hout Bay, south of Cape Town. The goal was to bring various members of the skateboarding community together and find a common understanding of what they want to do with their skatepark. It was a […]

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d.confestival Südafrika – Eine Methode wird gefeiert

Dieser Beitrag wurde am 22.10.2022 in ManagerSeminare veröffentlicht. Hier ist der Originaltext: TitelFühre im Tempo des Vertrauens! VortextIn Kapstadt, Südafrika fand vom 12.-14.Oktober das dritte d.confestival statt. 350 Teilnehmer aus knapp 40 Ländern feierten Design Thinking (im folgenden DT) – ein Management-Werkzeug, das hilft, schneller, bessere Lösungen auszuführen. DT stellt den Menschen in den Mittelpunkt, […]

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Think Quarterly – A Magazine by Google

Think Quarterly is a unique communications tool that brings together some of the world’s leading minds to discuss the big issues facing businesses today. It was designed as an experiment and it started in 2011. I had the honour to contribute three articles to it – alongside editors from The Guardian and The New York […]

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Transparent is my “color” for learning

In the very early hours of April 1, 2021, I had the opportunity to interview 唐鳳 – Taiwans “digital minister”, a minister without portfolio. Audrey is deeply inspired by the early Internet and has carried the principles of radical transparency and co-creation right into her job as minister. When asked which color she would associate […]

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5 Rules to make an impact

On April 8th I was invited to give a talk at the HS Pforzheim. The topic was: How to drive longlasting (social) change (=sustainalbility). 80 students were watching online the Q&A – Benjamin Fritz, who has been to Janwaar for six weeks in 2019/2020, was asking the questions – it was fun!

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7 Rules to Disrupt Successfully

Last week I was part of a Musterbrecher-workshop (online) “Unternehmertum” (Entrepreneurship), which they condicted for their client freenet, Hamburg, Germany. My role was to share my experiences with my social experiment in Janwaar and to draw parallels between my work in the village and my work as a consultant for companies. This might seem odd […]

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“Mein bestes Training: In London auf einer Bühne.“

time4you has published a well written article about me and my work in India. It is all around “LEARNING”. And it is in German 🙁 Same holds true for the interview above. Asha wäre schon längst eine junge, zwangsverheiratete Adivasi – eine kasten- und chancenlose Frau in Indien. Doch dank des Einsatzes von Ulrike Reinhard […]

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Roadtrip to Bombay

The Nomad is a growing collection of stories, fascinations, encounters, observations, lived moments — and the quiet (and not-so-quiet) joy hidden inside them.They’re all rooted in my life, wandering freely between places, people, questions, and unexpected turns. Many of these stories eventually find their way into the book — others insist on staying a little […]

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