Being an ethical company is fast becoming a business advantage but soon it will be an imperative. I.e. you will not be rewarded for being a responsible organization, but you will be punished if you are not. However, many organizations lack a deep understanding of how to act ethically in a business context, they do not have a language to discuss it and they do not have the tools to develop ethical principles and operationalize them to ensure their businesses becomes part of the solution rather than part of the problem.
In this Amazon no. 1 bestselling anthology, edited by Rehumanize Institute’s Head of Research, Kris Østergaard, a select group of global thought leaders, incl. Rehumanize’s CEO Laila Pawlak, and experts within fields such as AI, neuroscience, leadership, culture, strategy, and innovation provides inspiration, insights, and concrete tools to help you solve near future ethical dilemmas to the benefit of your organization and to the benefit of the world.
So, you think you're ethical in your work? What if I told you that digital and a global pandemic moved the goal posts and continue to do so without our knowing or acknowledgement. Ethics@Work helps us re-center ethics for the next normal.Brian Solis | 8x bestselling author incl. LifeSCALE: How to Live a Creative, Productive, and Happy Life
Ethics@Work is a rich buffet of short essays on business ethics from the leading global thinkers in this field. In our increasingly crowded and connected world, the issue of how we can be good to each other has never been more urgent, and this book takes it on from all angles. A terrific collection.Rob Chesnut | Former Chief Ethics Officer of Airbnb, bestselling author of Intentional Integrity
Ethics@Work raises important questions regarding how we think about the future of work, humanity, and our value systems and provides excellent tools for smart decision making. Kris has s storied career in thinking about these challenging dilemmas, and in this anthology, he helps others identify and disentangle some of the most complex ones facing organisations. A must-read!Shiza Shahid | Co-Founder, Our Place, and Malala Fund
Stellar thinkers take us on a break moral journey from exponential economics through corporate activism to sentient machines. A powerful, provocative guide to our shared ethical futures.Cennydd Bowles | Bestselling author of Future Ethics
As an entirely new economy driven by artificial and autonomous emerges, what role will our traditional senses of work, ethics - and fair play - play? To what extent will these values be usurped ny processes optimized for experience and profit? How will we navigate their myriad unintended consequences? Indeed, what lies ahead in our very understanding of the term “Human Resources?” These are the questions taken head-on in Ethics@Work - a fascinating compendium of thought leaders whose insights show the clear way forward for us all.John Schroeter | Executive director of Abundant World Institute and editor of After Shock
Corporate Innovation
The link between innovation and responsible business is growing stronger by the hour. It is no longer possible to innovate without factoring in how to avoid unintended negative consequences as well as exploring how to optimize one’s positive impact.
In Kris Østergaard’s bestselling business book Transforming Legacy Organizations, you get the tools to understand how to innovate in multiple tracks at the same time, understand the immune system barriers that are holding your organization back and how to apply culture hacks to eliminate those barriers and increase your impact
Kris Oestergaard does an amazing job highlighting and defining the key issues preventing established companies to transform: the individual immune system, the societal immune system and the organizational immune system. His book is a must read if you are hoping to be the disruptor and not the disrupted in this age of unicorns.Salim Ismail | Bestselling author of Exponential Organizations
After 10 years og helping companies disrupt themselves, we are also finding how hard it is to do it ourselves at Singularity University. Transforming Legacy Organizations outlines many of the barriers we created in our journey to get here and how to break through them in order to continue to be at the leading edge of exponential change and technological disruption.Rob Nail | CEO & Associate Founder of Singularity University
Transforming Legacy Organizations is a great manual for any company looking to transform itself in the face of accelerating technology and fierce competition. Both a fun read and incredibly informative. A welcome addition to the innovation canon!Steven Kotler | NY Times bestselling author of Bold, Abundance and The Rise of Superman
Innovation is not just for the young and digital. As Kris Østergaard makes clear, legacy organizations must also innovate to create economic value now and into the future. Don’t let the size of this book fool you, for it provides a road map any company can follow to overcome the immune systems that stifle change and innovation. Follow this path in transforming your legacy organization to snatch victory from the jaws of disruption.B. Joseph Pine II | Bestselling co-author of The Experience Economy
While innovation is increasingly important, the term innovation has been so overused that practitioners are left feeling confused and unsure what to do next… Transforming Legacy Organizations is the antidote from this innovation abstraction. This book is practical, helpful, and accessible. I highly recommend it.Kyle Nel | Bestselling author of Leading Tranformation and Former Executive Director for Lowe’s Innovation Labs
Other publications
Download a free copy of Laila Pawlak and Kris Østergaard’s book The Fundamental 4s: Designing Extraordinary Customer Experiences in an Exponential World
The world’s foremost futurists reflect on 50 years of future shock, including a contribution by Kris Østergaard on what the organization of the future will look like.
