InThinking AskewbyAlf Rehn·Feb 25, 2025#1 — The Enshittification of Corporate Creativity, 2025 editionTL;DR: Enshittification is a term for how everything — from social media to your latte art — is spiraling into bland, corporate sludge…
InThinking AskewbyAlf Rehn·Dec 28, 2024The Muddle of Mediocrity in ManagementWriting and thinking about management have tended to be highly polarized along an axis of success and failure. On the one hand, we tend to…
InThe Art of KeynotingbyAlf Rehn·Sep 3, 2020Coherence Is Overrated (in public speaking)We’ve all been there. A speaker, possibly even a famous one, steps up on stage. They start out interestingly, but after a while they seem…A response icon1A response icon1
InThinking AskewbyAlf Rehn·Jul 13, 2020The Innovation Time Bomb — A Warning(If you are dead tired of preambles that remind you that there’s been a crisis and all that, and want to get to the point quicker, skip…
InThinking AskewbyAlf Rehn·May 7, 2020On the Prescriptions, Paradoxes, and Props of Entrepreneurial PassionThis text was originally written for a somewhat slapdash edited volume on entrepreneurial passion, and as is at times my way I…
InThe Art of KeynotingbyAlf Rehn·Apr 7, 2020Sex Talk and Foul Language — On Speakers Working BlueIn standup comedy, the expression “working blue” refers to using language and imagery (and sometimes, if rarely, props) that can offend a…
InThinking AskewbyAlf Rehn·Jan 14, 2020Requiem for an Innovation: What We Can Learn from the Sad Story of Laundroid, the Laundry-Folding…Our society tends to narrate innovation in triumphalist and only triumphalist ways. As we, particularly in the West but increasingly as a…
InThe Art of KeynotingbyAlf Rehn·Jan 6, 2020On Background Research, and Why Speakers Should Limit ItHow much should a (keynote) speaker research the client and the audience before giving a speech? This might sound like an innocuous…
InThinking AskewbyAlf Rehn·Jan 30, 2018Innovation as a Balancing Act: On Undersolving and Oversolving Problems (Early Draft)(This is merely the start of a longer piece on solutions and innovation I am planning, but thought it would be good to outline it here. It…
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