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The 1789 Coffee Talk Series

1789 Team Coffee talk series

On being truly free…

Towards improving our understanding of the world around us through puzzlement, empathy and conversation

The unlived potential of corporations & why it’s not yet too late

What we can learn from running a circus

What will happen to the function of a leader in platform organizations?

I recently had a conversation with a friend about the hype and buzz of certain keywords (aka Buzzwords). I described a situation where a…

My mum grew up on a farm and her favorite animals are pigs. Now, there may be an according bias in her stories, but it doesn’t really…

Before setting foot into the business world, I had only read about organizations undergoing significant change and how many of them are…

Unternehmen stehen mittlerweile in einem ständigen Zwiespalt zwischen Volatilität, Unsicherheit, Komplexität und Mehrdeutigkeit…

From linear to exponential change

We at 1789 attend many events. And usually, one of our key messages (if not the key message) is: Innovate or die. If you fail to reinvent…

Today’s organizations are struggling. Why purpose is an impactful mean to unstruggle the struggle.

For a long time, the consumer goods sector was regarded as absolutely crisis-proof. For 40 years, consistent growth figures of over 15%…

I recently had a critical situation at work. One of my colleagues — who I always felt like is very talented and promising — was struggling…

A few weeks ago I visited a jazz bar in Prague and when I sipped a Clover Club Cocktail and enjoyed my surroundings — sitting in a small…

In the end, it all comes down to words. Whether they are spoken or not. Following Samuel Beckett’s opening quote, the long-term success of…

Remember the time you were fooling around the house or explored the world together with your friends? Remember the time when you were only…

The best way to learn if you can trust somebody is to trust them.“ Ernest Hemingway said that. The dude who wrote some of the world’s most…

Hello Professor Bouncken,

Nowadays, we are making huge progress in the field of Artificial Intelligence. Since the rise of artificial neural networks, new…

If you google the word innovation, you will get more than 500 million hits in less than a second. As we stated in our first article, the…

Really? Another blog about new work? Oh yes! Why? Because of reasons. But let’s try to be a bit more serious here: The term new work is one…