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Menno Lanting
Trendwatcher Menno Lanting is an expert on the impact of the fast-changing world, innovation, technology, disruption, digital transformation and leadership.
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About Menno Lanting
Menno Lanting is regarded as the ultimate expert on the impact of digital technology on leadership, business and the way we work. He is a much sought-after speaker and consultant. More than 100,000 people have read his bestsellers Connect (Management Book of the Year 2011), Everybody CEO (Longlist for Management Book of the Year 2012), The Smart Organisation (2013), Lead with a Tweet (2013) and Oil tankers and Speedboats (2015). For the latter he interviewed 100 inspiring and innovative entrepreneurs and leaders all over the world, on their view of business, cooperation and leadership in the networking era.
The main theme of his oeuvre is ‘adaptability’: being able to transcend what you learnt during your training, or even what you built your career on, the business models you believed in, or how relevant you deemed your (public) organisation to be and which you perhaps had thought would remain intact for decades to come. The goal is to raise yourself and the organisation to the next level.
The world is changing: old laws and models are increasingly proving to be redundant, new ones are being developed on the go. Digital technology seems to make the world smaller and smaller, while all those connections simultaneously create ever more complexity.
Organisations we thought would remain relevant for decades, are crumbling before our very eyes. Nowadays, consumers and citizens are interconnected so well, that information, news and trends spread globally in the blink of an eye. This means organisations need to bring new products and services at an ever increasing speed. This calls for more innovation and smart organisations, and consequently more experiments.
The key requirements for innovation are the right people, the right technology and the right corporate culture. New types of organisation will be born, but so too will our view of leadership change radically. Today’s knowledge worker is more independent of organisations than ever before. This calls for the skill to work together virtually and the ability to showcase one’s own skill and knowledge set through online networks. Leaders will no longer be appointed, but instead be chosen based on what they bring to their network.
”Things change, change things”
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Diana C Robertson Ph.D., Associate Professor, Organization & Management
"Dear Walter,
Thank you for speaking to my Ethics in Business class. Your talk came at the perfect moment in time. At this point in the course, we had addressed individual business ethics issues, and also the responsibility of multinational corporations operating overseas. However, until you spoke to us, we had not discussed issues of how cultures shape perspectives on ethics. Your talk was able to weave the themes of cultural differences and ethics together in a thoughtful and thoroughly interesting manner.
When I asked the students for their comments on the class, students uniformly said that it was fascinating! They enjoyed your stories and the messages conveyed in the stories. During the class session after yours, students alluded back to your examples, citing parallels between the case we were discussing that day (Levi Strauss in China) and Pepsi's relations to the community.
I am most grateful for your contribution, and hope there will be further opportunities to work with you. I also hope to travel to India one day!"
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Menno is a sharp analyst
Menno is a sharp analyst, who truly understands the difference between important and crucial. Besides that he is a very good writer and communicator.