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Wojtek Materka

Wojtek Materka

·Aug 10, 2022

Leading in an (Art)ificial World.

It’s sometimes hard to find words when we encounter something new and unfamiliar. It takes work to give name to an experience if it doesn’t fit what we have seen before. If we lack the words, or past patterns to associate with, we may actually ignore what we are seeing…

Art

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Leading in an (Art)ificial World
Leading in an (Art)ificial World
Art

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Amy Materka

Amy Materka

·Dec 14, 2020

The gift of 2020

We are sitting here planning a holiday season without grandparents, cousins, aunts, uncles, nieces and nephews. We live in France in a community of international families. Extended family close enough to drive here for Christmas is the exception rather than the norm for our circle and we were going to…

Life Lessons

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The gift of 2020
The gift of 2020
Life Lessons

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Amy Materka

Amy Materka

·Jun 15, 2020

The productivity myth: A case for doing less but being more

I have been fascinated with Keanu Reeves for a long time. I think he might be the only actor that I truly bother admiring. I love that he spanned Bill and Ted and the Matrix, inhabiting those iconic roles at the polar opposite end of some continuum with funny feel…

Personal Development

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The productivity myth: A case for doing less but being more
The productivity myth: A case for doing less but being more
Personal Development

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Amy Materka

Amy Materka

·May 3, 2020

What comes after this?

There is a collective grieving happening. A grieving for what we thought our lives were, before the coronavirus and lockdown. I am grieving something that I am finding difficult to name. Innocence perhaps? I want this experience to mean something. To mark the beginning of something important. But am I…

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What comes after this?
What comes after this?

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Wojtek Materka

Wojtek Materka

·Apr 12, 2020

When my dream job became virtual

Over the last decade I have been redesigning my life to do work that is meaningful to me. I did it by experiment. I tried many things, and deleted, erased stuff that didn’t fit. With no remorse but with trepidation. It costed me almost everything that society prizes. Recently, I…

Life Lessons

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When my dream job became virtual
When my dream job became virtual
Life Lessons

10 min read


Wojtek Materka

Wojtek Materka

·Nov 26, 2015

Making to think — a strategy style for the changing times.

Strategy is sometimes equated with something conceptual and separate to action. The language that describes it is full of cerebral words such as “thinking”, “logic”, “plan”. This is in contrast to seemingly different world of implementation, where we talk “doing”, “effectiveness”, “process”. …

Innovation

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Making to think — a strategy style for the changing times.
Making to think — a strategy style for the changing times.
Innovation

4 min read


Wojtek Materka

Wojtek Materka

·Nov 10, 2015

Drawing to think

I have a superpower. I make complex things simple. Some people read. Some people write. I doodle, sketch, draw. Whatever is in my head. Out it comes onto the paper. Why is this a superpower you ask? You see, we can know more than we can tell. We know more…

Design

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Drawing to think
Drawing to think
Design

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Amy Materka

Amy Materka

·Nov 10, 2015

Evolving dinosaurs in the age of the unicorn

Bammm. The meteor hits the earth. A few dinosaurs are killed outright. Those that avoided death by meteor happily go back to grazing or hunting unaware that a major ecological change is also happening and that their death is imminent. Sixty six million years later… It is your job to…

Innovation

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Evolving dinosaurs in the age of the unicorn
Evolving dinosaurs in the age of the unicorn
Innovation

3 min read


Amy Materka

Amy Materka

·Oct 1, 2015

Let’s make strategies that move us

It was 9 am Monday morning and I settled in the back of a strategy roadshow clutching my coffee. The CEO of the organisation was getting ready to speak. I sat down and looked around. There was a quiet sense of anticipation. Folk looked fresh and ready to listen. Great…

Strategy

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Let’s make strategies that move us
Let’s make strategies that move us
Strategy

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Wojtek Materka

Wojtek Materka

·Sep 23, 2015

Strategic change is always personal

Constantly changing environment requires more and more organisations to re-invent themselves. But to change an organisation leaders need to contend with change within them as well. — “What business are we actually in?” — I heard the CEO of a large manufacturing company ask this question of his team in the middle of a workshop. It was the beginning of a strategy review which would take them into completely new territories. …

Innovation

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Strategic change is always personal
Strategic change is always personal
Innovation

5 min read

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Amy Materka

Amy Materka

I write for myself because it is cheaper than therapy.

Wojtek Materka

Wojtek Materka

I help leaders develop and thrive in face of complex problems | Management prof @insead | Co-Founder Sapling Leadership Studio | [http://www.materka.me]

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