Do you remember when looking at popcorn popping, the small moment when a corn is about to pop? We call it the popcorn-moment. We have all experienced it. A moment in time where we finally understood something, started to wonder or even saw the light of something new. This is our collection of popcorn. Written, recorded and curated directly for you to consume and enjoy.
May you experience a lot of popcorn-moments.
By Thea Tolstrup Bramming, Erik Korsvik Østergaard and Puk Duerlund Falkenberg, 2nd of December 2023
The 15th Global Peter Drucker Forum in Vienna took place November 30th to December 1st 2023. It was for Puk and Erik their fourth visit to the conference, and for Thea her first. We went there to get inspired by great thinkers, top leaders and the few practitioners that where speaking at the forum.
By Erik Korsvik Østergaard, 26th of October 2023
Today’s episode examines whether culture shapes the organization, or the organization shapes the culture and the importance of trust within this dynamic.
The guest for this episode is Antoinette Weibel.
By Erik Korsvik Østergaard, 11th of May 2023
Today’s episode focuses on the topics of self-management and principles of the progressive organisation and how these innovative ideas can be applied and benefit both employees and management.
The guest for this episode is Rhea Ong Yiu.
By Erik Korsvik Østergaard, 6th of April 2023
In this episode, Erik Korsvik Østergaard has a conversation with Jeppe Vilstrup Hansgaard, CEO of Innovisor, a small consultancy focusing on organizational network analysis and change management, about signal number 10: Social Network over Social Media.
By Erik Korsvik Østergaard, 6th of April 2023
Today’s episode is a little different as our usual host, Erik Korsvik Østergaard is the one getting interviewed. The discussions is about a number of subjects including social capital, social contracts, the ideal sizes for teams, co-leadership as well as teal working practices and how it functions within an organization.
By Thea Tolstrup Bramming, 30th of March 2023
Ever been disillusioned by company values just being a poster on the wall? Struggle translating what you believe in into ways of working in your company? If yes, it is no surprise
The Culture Canvas is a framework for intentionally designing a tangible organizational culture where what we say is what we do.
By Erik Korsvik Østergaard, 16th of February 2023
Today’s episode focuses on fragmented organizations. We discuss what tools organizations should adopt and the importance of organizations having a unifying mission.
The guest for today is Nathans Evans.
By Tore Nielsen, 31st of January 2023
There’s a fog of uncertainty that clouds the future — and it makes it very difficult to predict. Just think about the many uncertainties of a normal day in your life.
However, there are ways to navigate the fog…
By Erik Korsvik Østergaard, 26th of January 2023
Today’s episode focuses on innovative approaches to money in the modern organization discussing topics such as hiring, salaries and bonuses.
The guest for the episode is Tom van der Lubbe.
By Erik Korsvik Østergaard, 5th of January 2023
Today’s episode is about how to create decision-making mechanisms for the modern age and asks the question, who decides, who decides?
The guest on this episode is Ted Rau.
By Erik Korsvik Østergaard, 15th of December 2022
This episode of the podcast is about organizational design from a perspective on stability to adaptability.
The guest on this episode is Joseph Fuller.
By Erik Korsvik Østergaard, 30st of October 2022
The theme for this season is to investigate the futures for organizational design.
Why is it so relevant these years? How do we handle money and decision making? Is the organizational design a mirror of the leadership culture? Are organizational designers the heroes of this decade?
By Tore Nielsen, 29th of September 2022
“What if the 1914 assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand had failed?”
History is full of moments that could have gone very differently. Change one minor detail, and all events following would unfold in ways that dramatically change the world we inhabit today. What possible worlds might we have experienced?…
By Erik Korsvik Østergaard, 18th of September 2022
“Futures thinking” is a complex thing with at least three answers to its nature. There might be more angles to this, but here are the most frequent answers people look for, then they ask me what it is: A popular, a scientific, and a practical answer. So, is there a good, a bad, and an ugly answer? All the answers are valid, but …
By Tore Nielsen, 16th of September 2022
In April of 2022, we shared the first issue of Futures of Work during our aptly named release event: April Day! We thought we might give you an idea of what the document is all about. We’d also like to give you some inspiration…
By Erik Korsvik Østergaard, 15th of September 2022
Do you wan’t to have a cobot that helps and support you in your work? Or do you prefer that we all have a cobot and they can work together and coordinate between them?
By Erik Korsvik Østergaard, 8th of September 2022
Futures thinking has nothing to do with fortune telling or supernatural forces. It is very much rooted in the present, in embracing and understanding our approach to assumptions and anticipation, in flexing our imagination, and in a facilitated conversation about…
By Tore Nielsen, 1st of September 2022
WHEN AND WHERE WILL WE WORK IN THE FUTURE?
That’s the question Tore Nielsen asks in his article about scenarios within hybrid work – and now in a BONUS episode of our Podcast: the Good Morning April podcast.
By Erik Korsvik Østergaard, 30th of August 2022
Increasingly I have heard leaders and organizational key opinion leaders voice their concerns about “a clear fragmentation of our organization”. Work-from-home and hybrid workstyles has shifted the workplace bonds from consisting primarily of distant…
By Erik Korsvik Østergaard, 22th of August 2022
This episode of the podcast is about what affects the future of leadership and the characteristics of leadership in the future.
We asked Google and Bing to finalize the sentence “the future of leadership is …” and they both answered “kindness”.
By Erik Korsvik Østergaard, 20th of July 2022
Tune in to hear about what’s on the Asian business leaders’ minds here in 2022 and the role of ancient Asian philosophy in a modern workplace.
The guest on this episode is Virginia Morris.
By Erik Korsvik Østergaard, 6th of July 2022
This episode of the podcast is about the trends and futures of work as seen from an HR perspective.
The guest on this episode is Perry Timms.
By Erik Korsvik Østergaard, 25th of April 2022
This episode of the podcast is about the trends and futures in the startup environment.
The guest on the podcast is Lisbeth Chawes.
By Erik Korsvik Østergaard, 5th of April 2022
This episode of the podcast is about futures thinking – and the approach and toolbox.
The guest on the podcast is Carsten Beck.
By Erik Korsvik Østergaard, 16th of March 2022
The fourth episode is about the future of organizations: The mechanisms, the culture, the structure – and a bit on how to get there.
By Erik Korsvik Østergaard, 22th of February 2022
This episode is about building a modern business unit with self-management inside an otherwise traditional corporate organization.
The guest on the podcast is Vivek Menon.
By Erik Korsvik Østergaard, 22th of February 2022
This episode of the podcast is about the trends within the futures of work, in 2022 – and about the nuances and differences in those approaches.
The guest on the podcast is Timm Urschinger.
By Erik Korsvik Østergaard, 22th of February 2022
This podcast episode (English) is the very first in the season. Our aim is to inspire and equip you to explore your own future of work, and we hope you will subscribe to the podcast.
Good Morning April is your partner in futures literacy and organizational design.
Together we apply and combine Futures Thinking, Futures of Work and Progressive Leadership to create a new way of working.