The post-coronavirus new normal reality is here but it is not yet evenly distributed.
Johan Norberg talks about the misfits, rebels and innovators that push the reluctant society into progress, the role of entrepreneurs and why this is a scary moment in time.
October 25, 2020Second-order effects (or consequences) can impact your business and result in massive changes in your business model or operations. If people avoid physical proximity what are the implications that are harder to see at first?
September 15, 2020Watch out for power law and the global competition. It’s not a level playing field for everyone. The best thrive and the rest survive.
August 6, 2020Radical changes in customer behaviour because of external circumstances like coronavirus or new behavioural habits can kill your value proposition almost instantly.
August 5, 20202020 is the year that killed many old business models. Most of the businesses have not realised it yet.
August 4, 2020Fundamental changes in user behaviour and external circumstances require full-stop moments to question everything and rebuild your operations based on the new realities and needs of the market.
August 3, 2020
Venture capitalist Sakari Pihlava talks about the future of the SaaS business model, how to make a career in VC, the dangers of pricing and what to do with YouTube.
June 21, 2020
Stefan Björkman explains the investment climate ahead of us, reveals his management secret, talks about a good company board, and what’s the purpose of glue in business.
June 7, 2020When it’s time to move on and leave the unreceptive environment behind?
June 2, 2020Whether you want to learn about various innovation stories or understand better the interconnected nature of the innovation system Ridley shines light to the crucial area of our existence. Who wants to go back thirty, twenty or even ten years?
June 1, 2020
Hampus Jakobsson talks about living in the moment, the biggest challenges for humanity, who are the most interesting people and why hearing is important while cooking.
May 31, 2020There are ways to have a virtual experience with your browser that is more than just sitting in a zoom-call.
May 28, 2020One of the challenges is to make the investors not to wait for each other but commit to their amount as they come. This is a balancing act where the demand and supply meet the closing skills of the founder.
May 25, 2020
Richard Georg Engström talks about how to make films in Scandinavia, navigate unknown and uncultivated opportunities, what is impact and what it means to be happy.
May 24, 2020It may also be worthwhile to consider whether we should lower our firewalls a notch. We are all learning to communicate and reach out to people in this new situation. Not all people are trying to scam us.
May 20, 2020All business is H2H, human-to-human. All your decisions are value judgements consciously and even without acknowledging them.
May 19, 2020Video is taking over face-to-face meetings. A small step for a business person but a huge leap for all business practices.
May 18, 2020
Ville Tolvanen talks about finding your audience, how to deal with trolls and why virtual activists are the future leaders.
May 17, 2020Virtual everything and virtual first is something very serious and urgent. You cannot appreciate it fully unless you’re immersed into the new and unfamiliar. It takes courage and humility. Errors will be made and they are for all to see.
May 15, 2020Sometimes it’s healthy to do short sprints and consciously do leaps that don’t feel natural. This is one of those times. What feels like a brave thing to do now seems obvious and lame in retrospect. It’s just a matter of perspective.
May 14, 2020The future of business travel may be more local and earthbound. It’s more comfortable to travel by car, train or boat in short hauls provided that you’re keeping within the green zones such as Baltics. Trust is a high currency now among people, nation-states, and companies.
May 13, 2020There’s no reason to favour someone just because they are a few kilometres away from you. Or limit your reach just because it’s convenient or familiar.
May 12, 2020Some of the gains and productivity progress achieved may have been temporary victories if they are not fought over. Habits take a long time to form and the lockdown period may not have been long enough for that.
May 11, 2020
Taavi Rõivas talks about his experience as the youngest prime minister in the EU, the future of nation states and his latest movie role.
May 10, 2020It requires friendliness and encouragement towards small and fragile. It expects thick skin and moral backbone to resist the temptation of favouring incumbents and old solutions. It accepts the fact that something new is strange, different and unfamiliar
May 8, 2020The whole process of going through the different stages of the coronavirus crisis has shown weaknesses, stress points, structural, managerial, political and systemic challenges or mere blunt misconducts and ignorance in our society.
It has shown that we are not prepared for something that is unexpected and requires immediate coordination and cooperation on a large scale.
Second-order effects are category-defining, paradigm-shifting and changing the course of many product categories, habits and values for good.
They are big changes that may seem to approach slowly but yet their coming is a certainty, it’s just a matter of time: objects in your horizon may appear further than they are.
May 6, 2020Post-coronavirus new normal is taking shape. It’s easy to overestimate the short term and underestimate the long term consequences.
May 5, 2020
Christopher Lingle talks about his long experience of working around the world without a permanent place of residence. We also cover economics, monetary policy, human liberty, trail running and where to find good coffee.
April 27, 2020
In this episode we cover topics ranging from cyborgs and AI to politics, and the future of humanity. Christopher Peterka also reveals why rosé helps in book writing.
April 27, 2020