Leadership 2.0 Dirk Verburg

‘We live in a world of organizations - and we do not understand them’ This is one of the statements Henry Mintzberg, one of the leading thinkers in the field of Management, made when I interviewed him for my Leadership 2.0 Podcast about his latest book ‘Understanding Organizations…Finally'.During our conversation, we discussed the following topics:The importance for organizations to get their structure ‘right’How Henry’s thinking about organizations has evolved in the last 40 years, and what ...

In this episode, I am interviewing Professor Eugene Sadler-Smith of the Surrey Business School about the role of intuition in decision-making processes.During our conversation, we discussed the following topics:1 What intuition is and what it is not2 The two types of intuition3 Adopting an Ambidextrous Mindset4 How to take important decisions in business5 Carl Jung and Intuition6 Why the intuitive mind is a slow learner7 Values and ethics in decision-making processes8 Final Thoughts - AI and ...

Scenario thinking enables organizations to establish possible visions of the future in the form of scenarios. This enables decision-makers to think through the different ways in which the environment of their institutions could evolve in the future, based on different sets of assumptions.One of the companies that is best known for its scenario-thinking activity is Shell. For decades, Shell’s scenarios have supported the decision-making of Shell leaders, academics, governments, and busin...

In this episode, I am interviewing Vlad Gheorghiu about mental health in the workplace, a highly relevant topic.Why? The World Health Organization estimates that 12 billion working days are lost every year due to depression and anxiety. This costs $1 trillion in lost productivity.McKinsey research showed that ‘60 % of employees have experienced at least one mental-health challenge at some point in their lives’. According to the same study ‘Failing to address the effects of mental health ...

In this episode, I am interviewing Eugene Sadler-Smith about hubristic leadership. A highly relevant topic in the light of the corporate scandals we faced in the last two decades, as well as the current geo-political tensions we are seeing around us. None of these would have happened without hubristic leaders.During our conversation, Eugene and I discussed the following topics:03:00 The meaning of hubris05:05 Examples of hubristic leaders in politics and business11:00 The origins of hubr...

Everyone is an expert in leadership development, or at least has an option about it! For this reason, I decided to interview Professor Ayse Yemiscigil.Ayse Yemiscigil, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior at Fordham University’s Gabelli School of Business and a Research Affiliate with the Human Flourishing Program at Harvard University. In February 2023, she, Dana Born, and Horace Ling, published an article for HBR.org of the Harvard Business Review titled: 'W...