Intercultural Synergies

12/04/2020

11/04/2020

-Alexander Den Heijer

19/03/2020

During these times, many existing systems, processes, and policies across sectors will be questioned and ultimately seen as invalid. New solutions will be needed as more of the world wakes up to these realities.

So, we and others who sense this as a defining moment for our generation push on as strong as ever, co-creating bridges to a new and better world.

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Photo by Felipe Giacometti on Unsplash

16/03/2020

Li Edelkoort: This is not a financial crisis but a disruption crisis.

"Unfortunately in this disaster there is no immediate cure," she added. "We will have to pick up the residue and reinvent everything from scratch once the virus is under control."

“And this is where I am hopeful for: another and better system, to be put in place with more respect for human labour and conditions. In the end, we will be forced to do what we should have done already in the first place.”

“The impact of the virus will be cultural and crucial to building an alternative and profoundly different world.”

The coronavirus epidemic will lead to "a global recession of a magnitude that has not been experienced before" but will eventually allow humanity to reset its values, according to trend forecaster Li Edelkoort.

11/03/2020

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9LCwI5iErE&feature=share&fbclid=IwAR0KVpNYzx_PE1kTQTcqv_t5X4z4SLjWrGdmncLTu318O5zFq9jKp44_tW0

http://www.ted.com Benjamin Zander has two infectious passions: classical music, and helping us all realize our untapped love for it -- and by extension, our...

07/03/2020

Humans are hardwired to dismiss facts that don’t fit their worldview

https://theconversation.com/humans-are-hardwired-to-dismiss-facts-that-dont-fit-their-worldview-127168?fbclid=IwAR0c6ZbUNHRas9yGvUmFczcZ1imqjw8Q9Kq-x0vbfSdf2GGuJOheymlVrTo

Whether in situations relating to scientific consensus, economic history or current political events, denialism has its roots in what psychologists call 'motivated reasoning.'

27/10/2019

Very well said.

12/07/2019

Best of all, it just might be the easiest of all intelligences to develop.

25/05/2019

"Leadership coaching offers a way out of that painful predicament. How? By giving people an opportunity to learn new approaches that will make them better leaders, better colleagues, and even better people. Coaching is about communication, active listening, asking empowering questions, and ultimately shifting the focus to the person or team being coached. It’s about inspiring creativity, new ways of thinking, and removing blocks. It’s a way to bring other perspectives into the room. Using coaching is a way to address complex challenges that typically need to be solved over a period of time, like shifting organizational culture."

| MIT Sloan Executive Education

12/04/2019

22/03/2019

Ueshiba Morihei, 1883-1969 (Photo credit: Wikipedia) The Japanese martial art, aikido, keeps appearing in my life. First I read that Paulo Coelho, author of The Alchemist, studies aikido. Then I spoke to the director of Naropa's Authentic Leadership program, and she said that an aikido master presen...

22/03/2019

While this seems pretty obvious on an individual level, it is just as valid on a collective and/or societal level. Some societies have remained stuck for many decades, even centuries!

23/01/2019

“Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.” This quote from Plutarch is as true today as it was two thousand years ago. Still, t...

18/01/2019

17/01/2019

An amazing and inspiring testimony revealing the crippling power of blind spots and the magic that can unfold once you muster the will to turn the camera around as it were, and illuminate those blind-spots, challenge those limiting beliefs and unfounded assumptions that keep you chained in a dark spot.
This lady could have shortened here suffering significantly had she at some point retained a qualified coach who could have helped her addressing her blind spots. So many of us prefer to suffer, and suffer and suffer, curating horrible pictures in our minds and cultivating toxic self-dialogues, before taking that one crucial decision to reach out for professional assistance.

12/12/2018

A cross-cultural perspective on problem solving 😜

Everyone has their own way of doing things.

29/09/2018

Dr. Otto Scharmer is an action researcher who co-creates innovations in learning and leadership that he delivers through classes and programs at MIT, MITx U.Lab, the Presencing Institute, and through innovation projects with organizations in business, government and civil society around the world. H...

10/09/2018

Already as a kid growing up in a multi cultural setting with four languages I noticed that the different languages I spoke would set me in different mind frames. To this day I contemplate in a different language depending on the subject and my communication style tends to differ depending on the language I communicate in.

01/09/2018

A cartoon by Kaamran Hafeez.

17/06/2018

„Die Toleranz ist für mich nicht etwas Westliches......“

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqVfukhjDz4

Die Globalisierung hat mittlerweile die hintersten Winkel des Globus erreicht, doch noch immer ist nicht klar, inwieweit sie Segen oder Fluch darstellt. Zwei...

13/06/2018

Culture eats strategy for breakfast! (Peter Drucker)

Relationships, communication, decisions, individualism, and change.

10/06/2018

One of the primary reasons why so many change endeavors fail, be it on a personal, organizational or societal level, is that we hardly ever dive deep enough to the fundamental dimensions of transformational change.
In order to bring about sustainable transformational change, we need to first and foremost self-reflect and address our blind spots. As MIT Professor Otto Scharmer puts it “The blind spot concerns not the what and how - not what leaders do and how they do it - but the who: who we are and the inner place or source from which we operate, both individually and collectively”
(a repost)

One of the primary reasons why so many change endeavors fail, be it on a personal, organizational or societal level, is that we hardly ever dive deep enough to the fundamental dimensions of transformational change.
In order to bring about sustainable transformational change, we need to first and foremost self-reflect and address our blind spots. As MIT Professor Otto Scharmer puts it “The blind spot concerns not the what and how - not what leaders do and how they do it - but the who: who we are and the inner place or source from which we operate, both individually and collectively”

10/06/2018

07/06/2018

Continuous adult learning and development in motion!..............

06/06/2018

Interkulturelle Integration, nach wie vor ein vernachlässigtes und missverstandenes Stiefkind Gesellschaftlicher Politik.

26/05/2018

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26/05/2018

In today’s dynamic markets, leaders need very different mindsets--three primary mindset shifts are critical to leading agile organizations.

07/05/2018

About Ability and your Response, about Believing in someone and making someone Believe in His/Herself, about Gratitude,... in short:
Very much worth watching!

25/04/2018

Authenticity trumps logic.