Leadership BLOG

What is it about Silicon Valley? And why does it attract so many great talents? Young serial entrepreneur Catalin Voss, who got to experience that

Take a glimpse at how the renowned cyberarchitect James Law was able to grasp the hidden opportunities of tech, and to completely revolutionize the world

How do you distinguish innovation from invention? And how do you apply this knowledge to lead teams and companies?  Dr. Frank Meyer, Head of B2C

Artificial Intelligence is one of the most hyped topics of recent years. Naturally, a lot of superficial knowledge has found its way into the press

New Year’s Eve at midnight: colorful fireworks lightening the sky, popping champagne corks and smiling people wishing a “happy new year” to each other. What

Did you know? The Munich Center for Digital Technology and Management (CDTM), a joint institution of the Technical University of Munich and the Ludwig-Maximilians-University, was the

If finding top talent is your top priority for this year, you’re not alone. 76% of the hiring decision makers list attracting quality candidates as

On Saturday, August 11th we offered together with our partners at the Female Tech Leaders (FTL), a full day workshop. 26 participants met at 8 am

We asked four experts whether there is a success formula to foster innovation: Dr. Hannes Ametsreiter (CEO Vodafone Germany), Dr. Antonella Mei-Pochtler (Senior Advisor BCG), Lin Kayser (Founder of

„Courage is not the absence of fear… Courage is when you are scared shitless and you do it anyway“ – serial entrepreneur Lin Kayser about

In Berlin, spring comes with re:publica. FLI spokesperson Laura Bechthold attended Europe’s most important conference on digital culture. Inspired by different sessions, here are some thoughts

At the FLI Conference 2018, we asked representatives of the corporate, startup, academic and social business world how to leverage cross-sectorial collaborations for co-creating the

Let us present to you what we learned from a former Leader of IDEO Europe, a Cyberarchitect and a Harvard Professor during the first day

How can you innovate the future? Phil McKinney, former CTO of HP and FLI Thought Leader 2017, shares with you 5 actionable steps to become more

How to establish Europe’s biggest car rental marketplace in Europe while redefining urban mobility, and accomplishing innovative leadership? Learn how the French founder and CEO

In our interviews with thought leaders about innovation, one aspect keeps coming up: culture. But what are we talking about when we invoke an “Innovation

In preparation of FLI’s next event, the Future Lab, we have talked to the CEO of the startup MotionWerk GmbH about their first product Share&Charge,

Do you want to make business or great business? At the FLI Conference 2016 Joe Kaeser, CEO of Siemens, revealed four steps for meaningful business.

In 2015, the FLI held an interview with the financial risk analyst and bestseller author Nassim Taleb, on „Achieving True Progress“. Mr. Taleb, you are a mathematician,

How does Wikipedia contribute to true progress in the world? Jimmy Wales, Co-founder of Wikipedia, on his vision of the world and the impact of

This is what will make FLI 2017 year’s edition special The Leadership Excellence Circle took place on June 28th in the “Maker Space” of the TUM Technical

Learn how a student’s team from Munich became finalists in the innovation competition initiated by Elon Musk to co-create a new super-fast mode of transportation!

Juliana Rotich, Social Entrepreneur of the Year in 2011, reveals how everyone can leverage the power and impact of technological tools, and how to achieve

Precious leadership advice from Thought Leaders we talked to in our Future of Leadership Initiative 2014. Source: Research from the Future of Leadership Initiative 2014

The kick-off event of this year’s Future of Leadership Initiative (FLI) edition is coming. Are you ready to find out what will make this year’s

Are you interested in some personal advice of the leader of 350.000 employees worldwide? Then read here about Joe Kaeser’s input at the FLI Conference

Biomimicry, the art to imitate nature and learn from it, can help us come up with amazing solutions, technologies and innovations. Like dreamstorming (see our

Change initiatives are challenging, therefore it´s absolutely necessary that they start correctly. Not all leaders are aware of it, but change initiatives can fail even

What does leading an orchestra have to do with leading a company? More than you think.   How can a conductor possibly teach business executives

In 2015, we talked to Bill McDermott, CEO of SAP, on how to achieve true progress. Find out more about his understanding of progress –

As you may have experienced yourself, achieving lateral thinking is difficult. Yet it is much needed. We reveal to you an unusual yet simple technique

The Editor-in-chief of WIRED UK David Rowan has the answer… Last year, one of the speakers at the FLI Conference was David Rowan. In his current position, he travels

In a meta-study Brent D. Rosso et al (Michigan University) found out 4 major sources of meaning and fulfillment at work. Find out what is essential

Plato described humans as „beings in search of meaning“ – and cognitive science confirms that. During centuries however, the social origin determined the work of

An expert on psychological decision-making revealed to us some simple psychological ways of making people more open to change and innovation. Just recently we had

What if there were a common thread between all kinds of inventions and innovations who have shaped our lives? We talked to an expert about

Currently, there is a lot of hype about that topic, but who knows exactly “The Truth Behind Innovation”? Sometimes academic research is too abstract and

Everybody seems to be aware of the importance of innovation, but do you really know why it is worth to be innovative? There is no