On mine are all the people whose curiosity inspired me and whose passion is to learn together

What holds us back are not our gender or even biases but the unhealthy long hours locking all of us in an archaic division of labour

There has been much attention over the years on how the LEGO Group works with its super fans. The growth mindset behind the approach is key.

Inclusion depends on removing toxic masculinity from society, workplaces and homes. International Men's Day shows what we can do...

Photo by Nong Vang on Unsplash What makes Elon Musk stand out as an innovator? Is it his audacious goal of going to Mars? Or his determination to challenge t...

Creativity is how we reinvent ourselves and protect our livelihoods from becoming automated. Back in the age of enlightenment learning was about human dignit...

How might brands lead the way and role model responsible business? Richard Straub, founder of the Peter Drucker Society Europe, brings together a great argum...

What does it mean to be authentic as a business, when the very fabric of society is becoming ever more polarised? The world agenda has shifted. The staple he...

Can ecosystems be engineered or are they by default out of control of individuals? Can companies be founded on the explicit intent to nurture ecosystems of v...

Power is changing hands. Connectivity is changing how we communicate, the kinds of products we find valuable and the services that we prefer. For a long time...

Recently I sat down with a friend who was very excited. She had applied to the MIT Media Lab and couldn’t wait to hear back if she had been accepted. An acco...

Someone asked me a while ago about how we can control the LEGO brand given that it has such a vibrant community? I tried not to laugh, because the person had...

Couple of weeks ago I had the opportunity to nip back to my native Finland for a good proper ‘Släkt Fest’ – Family Party, as my uncle, now the oldest of all ...

Companies and leaders everywhere is shifting more and more from the traditional command and control way of leading, towards networked collaboration. The pace...

Last week I had the pleasure to be at the Front End Innovation Europe conference, to give a key note on moving towards an eco-system of value creation with c...

Take global warming or government regulation as examples – these are all very complex topics, collections of variables where solving the problem cannot be ac...

Assuming you have a smooth running innovation machine – and you work from solid consumer insight – how come things can still go wrong? Interestingly, cogniti...

Some years ago I came across an excellent paper by Juan Pablo Valencia and Taryn Westberg at the London Business School, where extensive investigations were ...

A friend recently postulated that having budget constraints can encourage better innovation than those with lots of money to burn as this provides a framewor...

Reading the excellent book by James Surowiecki on the Wisdom of Crowds, one of his examples when talking about the power of convention: seating in public pla...