I am leaving for India in a few days. Everyone I know there has sent some version of the same message: it’s extreme, be careful. Not the usual seasonal warning. Something more urgent. More tired. Yesterday a longtime friend wrote from Banda, Uttar Pradesh — a district I know, with people I love. A record […]
A Nomad’s Compass to Change That Holds I have been carrying this for a while. In talks, in workshops, in conversations after conference sessions when someone pulls me aside and asks: but how did you actually do it? This booklet is my answer. It started with a simple question I asked myself in 2014 when […]
I have sat across from a lot of young people in the last few years. In villages. In universities. In conference rooms that were trying very hard to feel informal. In circles on the floor in Janwaar, where the rule was simple: whoever speaks, speaks for themselves. What I notice, more and more, is the […]
I came across a number the other day.Even Roger Federer lost 48% of the most important points in his matches.Almost half. It doesn’t sit well. We remember control. Precision. Mastery. We remember the points that worked.But nearly every second decisive moment — didn’t.Lost. Not because he wasn’t good enough. Not because he made a mistake we […]
This morning I watched a conversation on the war in Iran. What Vali Nasr describes about the countra and its people feels precise and grounded. But what stayed with me was something else — the way his words touched something in me that I hadn’t expected. It connects to much of what I am grappling […]
For Datentreiber’s 10th anniversary, I’ve written a guest article in which you will learn about the nine principles that enable the successful implementation of data strategies and, consequently, the transformation of business models. The new Datentreiber philosophy is “train. think. transform.” It is a holistic approach which defines data-driven strategies as the trigger for corporate […]
This is the second part of “What companies can learn from Janwaar”. The first part you’ll find here. While the first part was more about how to set-up the transformation process in order to succeed (=principles), here in the second part I summarise the main learning in form of a few rules. Combined these rules […]
This is the first part of “What companies can learn from Janwaar”. The second part you’ll find here. While the first part is about how to set-up the transformation process in order to succeed (= principles), in the second part you’ll find the main learning in form of nine rules. Combined these principles and rules […]
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!
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 […]