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  • Think Tank
  • 09.08.2022
  • Miriam Meckel, Marcus Heidbrink

Employees prefer respect to high salaries

Good leadership, respect and working from home are crucial for job satisfaction. Employers must understand these truths or risk losing their workforce, warn Miriam Meckel and Marcus Heidbrink.

  • Think Tank
  • 08.07.2022
  • Miriam Meckel

The agony of choice

Big companies know many of our preferences. But when single corporations know better what people want than these people themselves, we should become suspicious.

  • Digital Warriors
  • 04.07.2022
  • Roberta Fischli

Sexism and Hostility in the Tech Industry – She Is Speaking out Against It

Governments and the industry seldom put Google & Co. in their place. However, some of the tech companies' employees have a different attitude. Take Meredith Whittaker, an expert in artificial intelligence.

  • Think Tank
  • 10.06.2022
  • Miriam Meckel

Woke Capitalism: The culture war spreads to the economic system

The emotional debate about "Woke Capitalism" prevents a fruitful discussion. Yet it is hardly more than a new term for an old but still very timely concept.

  • Think Tank
  • 31.05.2022

Ambient Computing: The Alternative to the Metaverse

The hype around the metaverse is here. But our real world, enriched by artificial intelligence, can equally be an alternative to this virtual second world.

  • Think Tank
  • 13.05.2022

The end of thinking as we know it

If we want to keep up to speed in an increasingly complex world, we know that we need to enrich and expand our human intelligence. We can do that with the help of artificial intelligence.

  • Digital Warriors
  • 20.04.2022

Humane Algorithms: Why Deborah Raji is taking on Amazon

Nigerian-Canadian researcher Deborah Raji audits software that can destroy people’s lives, which doesn’t always go down well with the companies producing it. 

  • Creating Environments
  • 07.04.2022

It's Time Sustainability Know-How Counted as an Employee Skill

Given what we know about climate change impacts, employees with sustainability know-how will be essential to decarbonizing our economies.

  • Think Tank
  • 01.04.2022
  • Miriam Meckel

The Fragmentation of Individual Identity

In the metaverse, people will move around with not one but many avatars.

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  • Innovation
  • 29.03.2022
  • Astrid Maier

Europe’s Rearmament Could Drive a Quantum Leap in Innovation

Europe wants to rearm. It should do the same thing when it comes to innovation because innovation is the Achilles’ heel of autocrats.

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  • Think Tank
  • 18.03.2022
  • Miriam Meckel

The Tyranny of Distance

Outer space is set to become the next frontier of military competition. A new international treaty that sets limits on what can be done with weapons in orbit is urgently needed.

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  • Leadership
  • 10.03.2022
  • Marianne Janik

Hybrid Working Needs a New Trust-Based Culture

The virus has turned our everyday working lives upside down. In the new world of hybrid work, managers need more empathy and mindfulness, argues Marianne Janik, new chair of the board of management at Microsoft Germany, in this guest article.

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  • New Work
  • 08.03.2022
  • Tim Leberecht

Why we get more done when we work less

Tim Leberecht and Alex Soojung-Kim Pang, the author of "Shorter: Work Better, Shorter, and Less", talk about the future of rest and work.

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  • Think Tank
  • 04.03.2022
  • Miriam Meckel

The First Global War on Information

We must learn how to deal with the global war on information because the war against disinformation is equivalent to the war with weapons.

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