Today's episode examines whether culture shapes the organization, or the organization shapes the culture and the importance of trust within this dynamic. It discusses the concepts of trust management, trust strategies, and a trust reservoir and uses a philosophical lens to explore "what makes a life worth living?". The guest for this episode is Antoinette Weibel, president at the Institute for Work and Employment Research, at the University of St. Gallen. Her research areas include tru...

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, who works as the senior catalyst at LIVEsciences, a consultancy with a mission to contribute to a more sustainable world through catalyzing success within the corporate world. Today’s host is Erik Korsvik Østergaard, Co-Founder at Good Morning Ap...

This episode is a special one, as it is part of the release of our annual Horizon Scanning Document where we reveal the signals for Future of Work that we keep an eye on. Check the Horizon Scanning Document and the details of all of the ten signals here: https://www.goodmorningapril.com/horizon/ 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, abo...

Today's episode is a little different as our usual host, Erik Korsvik Østergaard is the one getting interviewed. Erik was invited on Roche's podcast called The Dots and is interviewed by Charles Robinson, Head of Strategic Projects & Initiatives, Therapeutic Modalities, at Roche pRED. The two discuss a number of subjects including social capital, social contracts and the ideal sizes for teams. They explore the challenges of co - leadership as well as teal working practices a...

Today's episode focuses on fragmented organizations. We discuss what tools organizations should adopt to help them succeed and the importance of organizations having a unifying mission that helps dispersed parts operate in sync. The guest for today is Nathans Evans, co-founder at Peerdom and along with the hosts, discuss some of the ideas and topics they want to focus on throughout the rest of 2023. These include an interest in growth, striving for positivity, and finding...

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, Co-Founder of Viisi NV, a Dutch financial service company that offers mortgage solutions for highly educated customers. At Viissi they have worked with new ways of working for many years, and Tom shares their and his learnings and approaches on many occasions. Viisi experiments with soci...

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, a governance designer, and a sociocracy consultant, trainer, and thinker. He works to make collaborative systems, based on willingness and dignity. In his own words, “The focus of my work is sociocracy - in a joyful and non-dogmatic way”. Ted has a background in linguistics, and is the co-author of the so...

This episode of the podcast is about organizational design from a perspective on stability to adaptability. The guest on this episode is Joseph Fuller. Joseph Fuller is Professor of Management Practice and co-head of Managing the Future of Work Project at Harvard Business School. With a long career in academia, Joe has strong and well-documented insight into trends and movements within the changing world and how work is changing. Joe’s knowledge and passion is focused on tec...

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? With us is Nathan Evans, Co-founder of Peerdom, an online platform that supports you in documenting your roles and responsibilities in the organization. He describes himself as a Technologist, Neuroscientist, Music...

COBOTS, COBOTS EVERWHERE! 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? Erik Korsvik Østergaard wrote in our Horizon Scanning document on the Futures of Work an article about cobots and how they might be everywhere. In this episode of our podcast he talks with Puk Duerlund Falkenberg about his article and the signals he picked to describe these sceanrios. Download the H...

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. Tore Nielsen talks with Puk Duerlund Falkenberg about the signal he chose to inspire him imaginen four scenarios based on Signal 1: The employees takes control of hybrid work. Tore elaborates on the four scenario and on which of the four he would prefer. Which one would you prefer? An...

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”. But what do we answer? Tore said “hard”. Puk said “diverse”. Erik said “fragmented and community based”. This is what we unpack in this final episode of the first season of the Good Morning April podcast. Today’s co-hosts are Puk Duerlund Falkenb...

This episode of the podcast is about the trends and futures of work as seen from Asia. Tune in to hear about what’s on the Asian business leaders' minds here in 2022, about disruption (again!), and about the role of ancient Asian philosophy in a modern workplace. The guest on this episode is Virginia Morris. Virginia is a Founder, Managing Partner & Leadership Strategist at Bamboo Difference. Their tagline is “We help people develop the qualities of bamboo: resilient, ...

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. Perry is the founder and Chief Energy Officer of PTHR, a small global consultancy, setting out to create better business for a better world. Their organization is B Corp certified and have been embracing the 4-day work week for a long time. Perry himself is a two-times TEDx speaker and an award-winning writer on the future of wor...

This episode of the podcast is about the trends and futures in the startup environment. The guest on the podcast is Lisbeth Chawes. Lisbeth is an experienced and award-winning tech leader. She has founded and lead several startup, scaleup and grownup companies, and is active as mentor and board member too. She strives to be part of shaping the future. Her interest in the development in technology and society shines through in her engagements in software, in robotics, in women in techn...

This episode of the podcast is about futures thinking - and the approach and toolbox. The guest on the podcast is Carsten Beck, a Danish futurist. He has been working with trend analysis and scenario processes as a Director of research at Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies for more than 30 years in more than 30 countries. Carsten strives to help us understand how global and local trends shape the future for organizations, companies, and societies. His focus is how to drive proce...

The fourth episode is about the future of organizations: The mechanisms, the culture, the structure – and a bit on how to get there. This is not a classic debate about flatter and more agile organizations, but more in the line of a multitude of local variations of the organizational designs. In the episode we discuss the pluralism of futures of organizations: Diversity in methodologies, diversity in needs, diversity in how hard and fast the trends affect them, diversity in cultures – and th...

This episode 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. In the episode we present the two types of content in the podcast series, namely (a) Cornerstone content, that goes in-depth with a single topic in the melting pot of The Future of Work, New Ways of working, Futures thinking, futures literacy or change management – and (b) interviews with guests from all around the globe, ...

This episode of the podcast is about building a modern business unit with self-management inside an otherwise traditional corporate organization. The guest on the podcast is Vivek Menon. Vivek Menon has been leading the eSteering Business Unit at Danfoss Power Solutions until recently, whose purpose is to build the future of off-road steering. As a business unit with more than 100 colleagues and 15 nationalities in an international corporate business, their journey into the worl...

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. Timm Urschinger is based in Switzerland. He is Co-Founder and CEO of LIVESciences, a consultancy with a mission to contribute to a more sustainable world by catalyzing the success within the corporate world. Timm and LIVEsciences are amongst other things interested in Teal, a culture based on w...