The Industrial Revolution with its metaphor of the machine as guiding principle (“Leitbild”) for human production and organisation brought upon us the idea of “peak performance.” Within this worldview sits the assumption that the universe follows mechanical, repeatable laws (Newton’s “Mechanical Universe”). Therefore, productive...
Ask any practicing entrepreneur how it is going and chances are, if you catch them in an honest moment, you will either get a really excited or really concerned and stressed answer. Such is the life of the entrepreneur, because entrepreneurship by definition happens on the edge between creation and destruction. Entrepreneurial activity thus inherently carries a lot of:
– uncertainty...
I was approached two weeks ago by my dear friend Ana Seferovic with the request to interview me on the topic of sustainable, holistic business for the Serbian online magazine Breakfast. Ana supplied me with a set of beautiful questions and allowed me to muse freely in my responses. The result of this exchange (in its original English as well as translated into Serbian by Ana) can now be...
As entrepreneurs, it is important to be aware of what is going on around us, be that in our organisation, our market, our community, or our environment.
In fact, it is not only important to have an idea of what is going on but also of where things are going. After all, being an entrepreneur means occupying the space between what is and what can be. And while “what can be” for the...