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Business, Inspiration, Leaders, Professional

From Corona Crisis to Opportunity with Optimism

Meet Louise Opprud Jakobsen, futurist specialised in new technology, digitalization, NeuroScience and innovation explain our endless and wonderful capabilities to adapt to changes and adjust to the future.

When we push the pause button in a machine, it stops. But for human beings, we actually start to rethink, become inspired and crave for learning. Like now, when the economy has frozen, the machine has completely stopped. But for us humans, we have to take this time as an opportunity to think and use it in a very constructive way.

Working with technology, Louise shares ways to be relevant. To her, extreme flexibility is a core strength that we all need to muster. Disruptions within technology are always there, and that’s why we need to develop the ability to adapt and adopt new ways. We have to be radically creative.

Crises are opportunities to find new strengths. Louise remembers mentors saying, never waste a crisis. So how can we not waste this crisis? What can we learn from it? How can we gear ourselves to stay relevant amid this?

As humans, we are more flexible than we realize. But we won’t until we’re forced. History and the more recent events in the past months have shown us that we are capable of digitizing and rebooting our economies and societies.

Our brains may not be wired for lots of change; most of the time, they are happy with habits and everything familiar. So taking an entire curriculum from analog to digital real quick is huge, seeming to be next to impossible. But we’ve done it in the last two months! This demonstrates our ability waiting to be tapped. And Louise encourages us to embrace this opportunity.

Who may have a difficult time adapting?  Those that haven’t got that core balance and strength, use your resources to take the pivot and refit to the current situation. Build optimism in your core. The question should be: ‘How can we make it?’; not ‘Can we make it?’. There are always new ways if we just keep looking.

As Louise worked in Neuroscience, she discovered that creativity is all about optimism. If we are happy, we are 300% more innovative and therefore, resilient. And we can shift our brains to being happy–by igniting thoughts of gratitude, hope and thankfulness. And this is the exact same mindset that we need in facing this crisis and opportunity.

Connect with Louise here.

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Pioneering Leadership with Sustainability

Everything in the world starts with a deep understanding of the inner perspective. This is how Lars Borgmann, pioneering Leadership Developer and Consultant, specialized in “The DNA of Sustainability” explains personal leadership influenced by therapy– a tool to maximise the opportunity this crisis is presenting.

We tend to look at sustainability as an outside or external matter but inner or internal sustainability actually demonstrates how interconnected we are to each other and to our world. And seeing this super interconnectedness is very critical. Lars explains this lens with this example: people in different places getting infected with the virus VS our earth getting sick and infected. But nothing in the mainstream conversation focuses on the immune system and the strategy of building the inside to effect the outside. DNA is not just something we inherit, but also something we shape and reshape.

So for Lars, instead of getting occupied with panic media, we must take the time to reflect on our sustainability and resilience as a self-leadership tool.

Working with different organizations, Lars saw some recurring issues: we built up a society where people feel under stress from complexity, from the minutes and seconds and from the underlying fear and difficulty coping with and adapting to massive changes. And our Earth is screaming at us: we need less, we don’t need more. We are on the same boat.

Throughout his extensive experience in pioneering leadership, Lars observed that everyone loves development as long as we don’t have to change. Because we are afraid to move into the unknown. So how to be part of the solution? By confronting fear.

Take in and let go and trust that the more we let go, the more comes for us to take in. Embrace the new consciousness and create from there.

Connect with Lars here.

Business, Inspiration, Leaders, Professional

Staying Agile and Steady amid the Corona Crisis

Change and disruption was the name of the game in this era, but corona virus crisis?

Set a positive outlook towards the changes happening around us with Tune Hein, author, keynote speaker and  consultant specialised in disruption and change.

To him, this crisis might be a huge disruption but actually makes room for a lot of innovations. A lot of exciting things are coming up–if we only capture these changes and developments to deploy them and bring to our normal life after the crisis. It’s a great time to stop and think and reflect!

In his experience consulting for various business, private and public organizations, he shares that organizations have actually been finding a lot of surprises. And as leaders, we must be mindful of these and take these developments as the new normal.

In his book Disruption, he explains how the digital business model has been a must-have for everyone. Going digital does not necessarily decrease or lose relationships, it can actually increase real-time relationships and our sense of community. And these prove to be true very recently.

If we wonder, why organizations become better at executing in times of crisis? He explains it’s because goals, processes are made more simple. We unload complexity, bureaucracy, among others, and see things are a lot better in SIMPLICITY. So leaders must ask, how do we maintain this even after the crisis?

Tune, who have extensively worked on bridging leadership gaps, sees that a lot of people are now supporting each other; a break from the competitor mindset– something that makes us feel a lot better despite the crisis. People are showing more compassion, something that might have been lacking in leadership relationships for so long.

For leaders, take this time to reflect and find clever solutions and the right road map forward.

What is the leadership that we’ll need post crisis? It’s the combination of being agile and steady at the same time. Shift the traditional driver for business from fear to purpose. Stop the autopilot. Think and capture developments for your organizations.

Connect with Tune here.

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How Corona can Change our Inner and Outer Leadership

Meet serial success entrepreneur, CEO and “Business as a Love Affair” enthusiast Martin Bjergegaard for a talk about how the COVID19 crisis can become a quantum leap, for leaders, businesses and humanity.

Martin discusses alternative ways to cope with the current crisis and finding opportunities in its midst– by engaging with an inward and positive outlook.  He points out how to take advantage of the situation to learn and maximize various collaborative platforms and tools to connect and reconnect with yourself and other people.

As CEO himself, Martin Bjergegaard highlights the positive gains that the business sector can achieve from this situation, giving stress to the necessity  to realize and feel the real needs of its community and the prospects of resetting the business and look forward to new door openings.

Like how he positively tackled business in his endeavors, he takes up the beauty that has been created by this situation as somewhat an opportunity to start making everyone equal. Learning, growth and inspiration push us to recognize the grace in the catastrophe.

His challenge: do not miss this precious moment and stay present!  Allowing ourselves to be authentic and to uplift everyone is an urgent undertaking for a quantum leap, for leaders, businesses and the rest of humanity.  

Connect with Martin here.

 

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