Three Inspiring Stories on New Leadership

What we can learn from the sugar consumption of Gandhi, from Netflix’s surprising resemblance to a nuclear submarine, and from the frightening team dynamics of super chickens about new leadership.

The X‑Conference on “Cor­po­rate Dig­i­tal Respon­si­bil­i­ty and Dig­i­tal Ethics” took place on Octo­ber 30, 2020. My keynote, which is now also avail­able as video, revolved — as expect­ed — around the Man­i­festo for human(e) lead­er­ship and specif­i­cal­ly around the ques­tion what (cor­po­rate) dig­i­tal respon­si­bil­i­ty has to do with mod­ern lead­er­ship. My core the­sis: Con­cepts like dig­i­tal ethics, com­pli­ance or self-orga­ni­za­tion in agile orga­ni­za­tions require all dis­ci­pline beyond obe­di­ence. They can­not sim­ply be imposed, but are based on the per­son­al respon­si­bil­i­ty of the employ­ees. In this talk, I will approach the ques­tion of how this per­son­al respon­si­bil­i­ty can be acti­vat­ed in a sus­tain­able way with these three inspi­ra­tional sto­ries about role mod­els, respon­si­bil­i­ty and trust.

Be the change that you wish to see in the world.

Mahat­ma Gandhi

Gandhi and the Sugar