Trailer from the Haniel Creative Summer School

We proudly present the first trailer on the Haniel Creative Summer School of 2011.

It was a pleasure to create this piece of educational experience that seeked to empower its participants in recreating their leadership styles and enhance it with the elements of creativity and sustainability.

Read the Guide on The Art of Creative Leadership (pdf)

We enjoyed the making of this product and want to thank the Haniel-Foundation for their support, the European University Viadrina and overall the extraordinary co-creators: Thomas Herpich, Hans-Georg Lilge, Ian Antonio Patterson, Sebastian Straube, Erik Malchow, Anna-Lena Schneider, Julia Butter, Danny Pajak and Paul Trommer and our video-editor Julian Graf for his keen endeavours on this projects.

Alexander Klebe

Sustainability meets Leadership & Entrepreneurship

the presentation given by Sebastian Straube, a fellow co-creator at the Creative Summer School of 2011, is now featured as recommended content at slideshare. A pleasure that we want to share with you.

 

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What would the world be?

Maya Angelou‘s thoughts on what the world would be like if one percent of the population became complaint free.

The Art of Creative Leadership

“How can we create a world in which we all want to live in – and make it sustainable?”

In early 2011 while the preparations for the Haniel Creative Summer School - “The Art of Creative Leadership” at the European University Viadrina took place; many questions on how we teach, combine and use knowledge arose.

The basic question was how creativity could be taught to future leaders and how their ideas could be translated into tangible and sustainable innovation.

Many great minds were involved at various stages of dialogue on the given matter, and soon the possibility of offering a summer school on creative leadership was at hand. The project developed rapidly, and with each step forward, each new “co-creator” won for the project, it became even more interesting than the original concept intended.

1. The involvement of the ideas of many, among them artists, scientists, entrepreneurs and beneficiaries,
2. The common vision: creating an educational product, which would set a milestone in the fields of Leadership Education and Sustainability,
3. The given tools: the financing provided by the Haniel Foundation and the infrastructure of the university,
4. The inclusion and development of the skills of combined potentials,
5. All came together to the creation of a product: The Haniel Creative Summer School on “The Art of Creative Leadership”

Beyond GDP: Happy Planet Index and Gross National Happiness

The GDP is not really measuring the wealth of a nation, as it is not taking account of all the factors, that affect our society – the pollution or the waste of ressources or even the happiness of the people (see article in german).

Great thinkers like Joseph Stiglitz, Nicolas Sarkozy and the most prominent on this matter King Khesar of Bhutan make room for a more sustainable approach in measuring the wealth of a society. As the ultimate aim of people is not to be rich, but to be happy. Did you know the Happy Planet Index?

My deepest concern is that as the world changes we may lose these fundamental values on which rest our character as a nation and people. It is critical that we are able to recognize Bhutanese character irrespective of how far we look back into the past or into the future. The Bhutan we see is vastly different – unrecognizable even – when compared to the Bhutan in the time of our first King. Yet, the character of our people and the nature of our fundamental values have remained unchanged. Henceforth, as even more dramatic changes transform the world and our nation, as long as we continue to pursue the simple and timeless goal of being good human beings, and as long as we strive to build a nation that stands for everything that is good, we can ensure that our future generations for hundreds of years will live in happiness and peace.

It is not because I am King that I ask these of you. Destiny has put me here. It is with immense gratitude and humility that at this young age, I assume the sacred duty to serve a special people and country. Throughout my reign I will never rule you as a King. I will protect you as a parent, care for you as a brother and serve you as a son. I shall give you everything and keep nothing; I shall live such a life as a good human being that you may find it worthy to serve as an example for your children; I have no personal goals other than to fulfill your hopes and aspirations. I shall always serve you, day and night, in the spirit of kindness, justice and equality.

As the king of a Buddhist nation, my duty is not only to ensure your happiness today but to create the fertile ground from which you may gain the fruits of spiritual pursuit and attain good Karma.

This is how I shall serve you as King.

His Majesty King Khesar, The 5^th Druk Gyalpo of Bhutan

speech from http://www.grossnationalhappiness.com/

Whale Wars

Each year, a small fleet of Japanese vessels hits the high seas in the western North Pacific and around Antarctica in the Southern Ocean to kill and collect a set number of samples under the International Whaling Commission’s sanctioned scientific permitting program. Their targets are predominantly minke whales, a species of baleen whale that averages about 26 feet (8 meters) in length. During the 2010 whale hunt, they took in 507 minke whales and one fin whale, according to BBC News. Since the IWC had reviewed permits to take in close to 1,000 whales, the haul was drastically lower than the whalers had intended. The lower count was largely due to interference from the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society.

The Sea Shepherd Conversation Society sails the world seas and do everything within maritime law in order to stop whaling. They are funded by big donors and since Animal Planet runs a documentary show with them supported by the masses.

Sea Shepherd’s Mission Statement

Established in 1977, Sea Shepherd Conservation Society (SSCS) is an international non-profit, marine wildlife conservation organization. Our mission is to end the destruction of habitat and slaughter of wildlife in the world’s oceans in order to conserve and protect ecosystems and species.

Sea Shepherd uses innovative direct-action tactics to investigate, document, and take action when necessary to expose and confront illegal activities on the high seas. By safeguarding the biodiversity of our delicately-balanced ocean ecosystems, Sea Shepherd works to ensure their survival for future generations.

An example case of how media and crowdfunding can engage to fund a campaign of animal protection.

Whale Wars on Animal Planet: http://animal.discovery.com/tv/whale-wars/

Fachbeitrag Mitarbeiterführung: Orientierung geben

Was Startups über Werte und Visionen wissen sollten (von Guido Fiolka)

Im Beitrag zur Unterscheidung von Management und Mitarbeiterführung haben wir davon gesprochen, dass eine der Hauptaufgaben von Führung ist, anderen Orientierung zu geben. Führung beginnt also mit einer Vision. Eine Vision ist genau genommen die Antwort auf eine brennende Fragestellung, die ein existenzielles Problem, ein tiefgehendes Bedürfnis einer Gruppe von Menschen adressiert. Gründer glauben in der Regel eine solche Antwort, eine derartige Lösung zu haben. Ohne das sollte es ein Unternehmen gar nicht geben, denn es hätte am Markt nicht wirklich eine Chance.

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The Law of Success (Napoleon Hill, 1927)

A small lecture from one of the basic works on success from 1927, when the great pioneer minds developed great power and success.

“An interesting experiment was conducted by this author, in collaboration with the students of a well known college. Each student was requested to write an essay on “How and Why Henry Ford Became Wealthy.”
Each student was required to describe, as a part of his or her essay, what was believed to be the nature of Ford’s real assets, of what these assets consisted in detail.
The majority of the students gathered financial statements and inventories of the Ford assets and used these as the basis of their estimates of Ford’s wealth.
Included in these “sources of Ford’s wealth” were such as cash in banks, raw and finished materials in stock, real estate and buildings, good-will, estimated at from ten to twenty-five per cent of the value of the material assets.
One student out of the entire group of several hundred answered as follows:
“Henry Ford’s assets consist, in the main, of two items, viz.: (1) Working capital and raw and finished materials; (2) The knowledge, gained from experience, of Henry Ford, himself, and the co-operation of a well trained organization which understands how to apply this knowledge to best advantage from the Ford viewpoint. It is impossible to estimate, with anything approximating correctness, the actual dollars and cents value of either of these two groups of assets, but it is my opinion that their relative values are:
“The    organized    knowledge    of    the    Ford Organization………………………………………75%
The value of cash and physical assets of every nature, including raw and finished materials …25%”
This author is of the opinion that this statement was not compiled by the young man whose name was signed to it, without the assistance of some very analytical and experienced mind or minds.
Unquestionably the biggest asset that Henry Ford has is his own brain. Next to this would come the brains of his immediate circle of associates, for it has been through co-ordination of these that the physical assets which he controls were accumulated.
Destroy every plant the Ford Motor Company owns: every piece of machinery; every atom of raw or finished material, every finished automobile, and every dollar on deposit in any bank, and Ford would still be the most powerful man, economically, on earth. The brains which have built the Ford business could duplicate it again in short order. Capital is
always available, in unlimited quantities, to such brains as Ford’s.
Ford is the most powerful man on earth (economically) because he has the keenest and most practical conception of the principle of ORGANIZED KNOWLEDGE of any man on earth, as far as this author has the means of knowing.
Despite Ford’s great power and financial success, it may be that he has blundered often in the application of the principles through which he accumulated this power. There is but little doubt that Ford’s methods of mind co-ordination have often been crude; they must needs have been in the earlier days of this experience, before he gained the wisdom of application that would naturally go with maturity of years.
Neither can there be much doubt that Ford’s application of the principle of mind chemistry was, at least at the start, the result of a chance alliance with other minds, particularly the mind of Edison. It is more than probable that Mr. Ford’s remarkable insight into the laws of nature was first begun as the result of his friendly alliance with his own wife long before he ever met either Mr. Edison or Mr. Firestone. Many a man who never knows the real source of his success is made by his wife, through application of the “Master Mind” principle. Mrs. Ford is a most remarkably intelligent woman, and this author has reason to believe that it was her mind, blended with Mr. Ford’s, which gave him his first real start toward power.”

Napoleon Hill