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Inspirators

In my life I have been influenced and inspired by many people. Here is a list of people that have inspired me in my work.

Charles Savage

Sometimes you have a conversation with somebody that is sparkling with energy. It happened between Charles and I and we have been inspiring each other ever since.

Dr. Charles M. Savage is president and mentor of Knowledge Era Enterprises, Inc. (KEE, Inc.), Boston and Munich and program administrator of the AOK Knowledge Recognition Program. The author of Fifth Generation Management has a clear view on the fundamental changes that are involved with managing enterprises in the knowledge-based economy.

He was one of the inventors of the Knowledge Café technique for strategic dialogue and had been pioneering with ways to help managers and policy makers make sense of the knowledge-based economy.

Leif Edvinsson

You may have noticed I describe my personal core competencies as: Clarify – Challenge – Create. Leif Edvinsson’s book Corporate Longitude inspired to do so. In one of the chapters he asks the reader to think about what would I be their business card that would describe their ability, not their job. In today’s economy it is not at what position you are or what you do, it is your abilities that are important.

Leif Edvinsson is a master of lateral thinking and he will challenge you with new points of view that may seems strange at first, but after thinking them over, let you realise your own – traditional – assumptions.

George Lakoff & Mark Johnson

Although I have never met them personally, their book Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and its Challenge to Western Thought (Basic Books, 1999) grabbed me by the throat. After searching for over 20 years I finally found a theory that described the way I think about epistemology and ontology. My life has never been the same again. Their ideas are inspiring me every day. Their work is extremely important for the way we view are world and try to organize and manage it, including politics. Much more should be done to promote their ideas. Any suggestions?

Patrick Sullivan

Patrick Sullivan Sr. is partner of ICMG and a leading authority and author of literature on the extraction of value from intellectual capital. Since 1988, he has been helping companies extract value from their innovations and he specializes in helping companies focus on the integration of legal, business and technology strategy to allow them to more effectively manage their intellectual capital.

While most members of the intellectual capital community focus on measurement or management of IC, Patrick is interested in making money from it. This creates a fresh and new , although sometimes confusing, perspective on intellectual capital.

I am especially looking forward to Patrick Sullivan’s new book: Einstein in the Boardroom that het is writing with his daughter Suzanne S. Harrison.

Joan van Aken

Scientific research in the area of organizations and management does not have to be abstract and theoretical, it can be fun and practical. That was the clear message that I got reading the work of Prof. Dr. Joan van Aken. His design approach is aimed at creating prescriptive knowledge in a scientific way. After we met he has inspired me to join the debate about research methodology for organizational studies and to share my experiences in applying the design approach to the field of intellectual capital management.