A Primer on Measuring Employee Engagement
This week the ILF came across a truly eye-opening article on employee engagement published by Harvard Business Review. While much has been published about the impact of employee engagement on [...]
The importance of seeing the World in Shades of Grey
This week we stumbled upon an interesting article on the insight about how important it is to see the world in shades of grey. Below we share with you an abstract of the article. Manfred Kets de [...]
Great balls of fire and the power of storytelling
Richard Branson, Founder of Virgin Group, shared in his most recent blog-post his fascination for storytelling. In fact he likes to listen to other people’s stories, and telling a few of [...]
Why Real Leaders Don’t Care About Titles Or Formalities
As leadership is so important, and needs to change, how about this one? Dean Williams, author of the newly released book Leadership for a Fractured World and professor at the Harvard Kennedy [...]
Debate on growth vs sustainability ‘a waste of time’
The ILF team has been intrigued by an interview of Professor Pieter Winsemius on the ‘debate on growth vs sustainability’ published by Eco Business. Pieter Winsemius, former partner [...]
Differing Work Styles Can Help Team Performance
To the ILF it is clear that the best teams leverage diversity to come up with true innovative solutions and to achieve longterm success. A recent article on this subject published by The Harvard [...]
How we can make ethical shopping a changing force?
At the ILF we came across this article on ethical shopping by Chris Jensen, founder of Good For US. We agree, that ethical shopping needs to become a mainstream movement and therefore are [...]
Why data visualization matters
Because of its interesting implications for innovation, the ILF dedicated one of its ‘Innovators Anonymous’ meeting, hosted March 2013 by Method, to this topic. In their latest newsletter Nesta [...]
Gamification in Concept Design: A Dark Horse Approach
While reading the March edition of Brainovation’s insights newsletter on straight thinking in a non-linear world, the ILF stumbled over this rather interesting report on gamification [...]
Engage people in the design of public spaces
A recent article published by Arup caught our attention. Arup’s independent ownership structure makes it a visionary firm that allows to integrate conviction as well as the needs of clients [...]
The PancakeBot 3-D Prints Your Breakfast
We have always been absolutely fascinated by the power and potential of 3d printing, but we didn’t expect to get it served for breakfast too. This is what the [...]