all about enkelfähig: Recent Episodes
Scott Denton & Anke Thesing
In this podcast series we explore, together with many of its architects and key contributors, the amazing new philosophy of enkelfähig and the positive impact it will have on our businesses as well as the lives of the people working in them.
There is no silver bullet, no immediate and extremely effective solution to the particularly complex problem of balancing the agility required of a company to deal with the problems of today, while simultaneously helping it along its path towards its plans and goals for the future. But enkelfähig is about engaging in a game with no end – somehow, this agile thinking and this long-term view must be brought together.
There is a saying: diversity is about counting heads and inclusivity is about making heads count. There is a rising trend of token diversity – and maintaining the minimum of diverse hiring practices in order to tick a box is simply not enough.
Perfection is the enemy of done, but it is the pursuit of perfection that takes you one step closer to it. This week Scott sits down with Dörthe Heinrigs, Part of the HOW (Haniel Operating Way) team to talk about the concept of LEAN, its linkage to customer experience, and of course, what it has to do with enkelfähig.
When entrepreneurs sell their company, they want to know it is going to a good home. A home that will concern itself with its growth, its image, and its sustainability. The value of a company is not self-dictated— it is customer driven.
Dreaming is easy – doing is hard. To dream is to wander with eyes wide open, to do is to stumble, not knowing whether the ground will support your next step. Life, after all, is not black and white, but rather a spectrum of grays, and navigating the landscape of change isn’t always intuitive. It’s laws that guide us through our lives, but there will always be gray areas. What then guides us through them?
It’s all about perspective and from our perspective, all roads lead back to enkelfähig. In this episode Scott sits down with the CEO of Haniel, Thomas Schmidt, to discuss the importance of adopting this new philosophy as the driving value of successful, 21st-century companies.
Don’t allow yourself to be an unconscious dopamine junky being blindly dragged through life — participate instead. What if rather than simply observing you actually experienced what you do? Allow us to introduce you to enkelfähig: the art of doing business in the 21st century.
In this podcast series we explore, together with many of its architects and key contributors, the amazing new philosophy of enkelfähig and the positive impact it will have on our businesses as well as the lives of the people working in them.