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BUSINESS ACUMEN

Read about the richness of doing business and how you can contribute to society.

Our aim is to look for inspiring people, organisations, their concepts, documents and data to gain insight from them.

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Chapter 1 - Worldview

Worldview

• Building blocks
  • Reality
    • Universe
    • Relational Quantum Mechanics
    • Thermodynamics
    • System
    • Incompleteness theorem
  • Entropy
    • Time
      • Societal entropy
      • Business entropy
    • Chaos
    • Fighting entropy
  • Free Energy Principle
    • Markov blanket
    • Active inference
    • Surprise
    • Attractor
    • Coherence
  • Life
    • Evolution theory
    • Brain - mind - emotions
    • Consciousness
    • Experiences
    • Embodiment
    • Habits

• True and false
  • Constructivism
    • Scientific realism
  • Essentialism
    • Idealism

• Actions
  • Dimensions
    • Directions
    • Hidden layers
    • Dimensional thinking and doing
• Context
• Relevant future
  • Humanity
    • TRUST and RESPONSIBILITY
      • Cooperation
    • Personality
      • Big 5
      • Scarf
      • Riasec
    • Human development
      • Compass
• Ethics
  • Freedom
  • Responsibility

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Chapter 2 - Creation of a sustainable society

Society

• State of our world
  • Energy
    • Earth energy system
    • Cultural energy system
    • EROI
    • NEG
  • Economic system
  • Neoliberal economic system
  • Plan-driven economic system
    • Financial system
    • Economic data
  • Democracy
    • Demographics
    • Socioeconomic status
  • Polycrisis
• Forces driving sustainability
  • Renewable energy
    • Energy carriers
    • Energy storage
    • Energy currency
  • Environment
    • Biodiversity
    • Climate
  • Sustainable societal future
    • Sustainable economy
    • Sustainable finance
  • Equality
    • Fairness

Practical

• Sustainability
  • CSR
  • SDG
  • ESG
  • European sustainability legislation
  • International sustainability legislation
• Methods
  • Circular economy
• Economic sectors
  • Logistics

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Chapter 3 - Experiential Growth Method

Experiential Growth Method

• Experiential Growth Method framework
  • Dynamic forces
  • Action fields
• How to think about growth
  • Thinking Fast and Slow
  • Causal Thinking
    • Model Thinking
  • Contextual Thinking
    • Bayes Theorem
    • Systems Thinking
    • Complexity
      • Complex Adaptive System
  • Directional Thinking
    • Dialectic Thinking
    • Integrative Thinking
    • Paradoxical Thinking
    • Wisdom

• How to take action
  • Experiential
  • Growth
  • Method

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Chapter 4 - Corporate futuring

Corporate futuring

• Value realisation
• Emerging results
• Strategic cycle
  • Strategic cycle: vision
  • Strategic cycle: strategy
  • Strategic cycle: tactics
  • Strategic cycle: mission

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Chapter 5 - Organisational futuring

Organisational futuring

• Organisational transformation
• Organisational levels

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Chapter 6 - Leading into the future

Leading into the future

• Leadership connection
• Leadership dilemmas
• Leadership paradoxes

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EXTRA

In this part, you'll find short PowerPoint-like overviews.

• Experiential Growth Method Step by Step
• Corporate futuring Step by Step