Irreverence

Sir John Hegarty is a renowned creative leader. He is one of the world's top creative minds and an industry leader having amassed decades of successful experience and wisdom as a founder of BBH. In this lecture Sir John explores the question, "What makes an idea great?" and examines the power of irreverence in advertising.

Tent talk with Professor Hirotaka Takeuchi

Professor Hirotaka Takeuchi is the Dean of Hitotsubashi University and an expert on Japanese innovation. "Toyota is a green tomato," he explains to host Professor Doug Guthrie of the Berlin School. "They think of themselves as always growing and intentionally incomplete". In this Tokyo TentTalk Professor Takeuchi summarizes the findings of his recent study of innovation and creativity at the leading Japanese automaker. He describes the contradictions between Toyota's Kaizen system of continuous improvement and recent leaps forward with products like the Lexus and the Prius. Learn also why people are so important in new knowledge-based creative economies and how Japanese innovation created "hard" and "soft" power in the past and is now leading in "smart" customer-centric power.

Berlin School Graduation 2009

Impressions from Berlin School of Creative Leadership 2009 Graduation Ceremony and Events

Michael Davis

Short spontaneous interview with Michael Conrad.

Key points:

It transformed me into a completely different type of leader.

The difference?

My leadership now is every day based on challenging the assumptions I had yesterday and that‘s at the core of being a great leader.

Lead people to do the same thing.