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April 7, 2018. How can we defeat the villain of terribly bad, boring or just plainly ineffective talks, presentations & pitches? Presentation literacy is the core competence of the 21st century. Nearly everything leaders & entrepreneurs do involves communication, and often it involves presenting ideas in front of groups and trying to persuade other people of their ideas and the need for change. At the upcoming workshop at Factory Berlin on Tuesday April 17, 2018...
March 21, 2018. How can we understand Trump, Le Pen, AfD reps & other right-wing populists? Christopher Kabakis talk at TEDxWHU on how to defend our open Western societies & democracy from a communications point of view just got released - have a look and share if you like with others who’d like to understand populism better, how it works and how to deal with it effectively…
Feb 17, 2018. "New Leadership, New World. - Leadership in times of digital change". This was the the theme of this year's LEAD Academy Community Summit on Feb. 16, 2018. Executives taking part in the Curriculum, alumni and trainers came together at the Kalkscheune in Berlin to learn about and discuss ideas on new leadership and network across sectoral boundaries. LEAD presented their new self assessment tool for executives - the "8 roles model" for different leadership roles…
Jan. 19, 2018. Infinity's Speaker Coach Patrick Liebl has created a new platform to share life experiences in short stories - in not more than 301 words. Have you experienced something in your life that you would like to share with the world? Not because you are looking for admiration but because you want to give other people the opportunity to learn from your experiences? Is there a life lesson you learned...
Dec 10, 2018. We are happy to announce that Infinity Institute's founder Christopher was invited to give a TEDx Talk at the upcoming TEDxWHU "The Day after Tomorrow" on Feb. 3rd, 2018. Christopher will speak on how to deal with right-wing populists effectively from a communications point of view. In his talk "Talk like Trump" he will examine what explains the rise of populism in the West in recent times, analyze how the populist narrative framework works and...
Sept. 13, 2017. How can we understand how populism works, especially right-wing populism? As part of our workshop conducted in cooperation with LEAD Academy on Sept.9, 2017 we developed a framework that contrasts how populists / the new nationalists operate compared to liberals (in the sense of classic liberalism) or "globalists". Our research distills three levels of intentionality of desired change that can be distinguished, or put more simply: three "movements"....
July 2, 2017. Infinity Institute is, like TED, committed to spread “ideas worth sharing”. Most discussion around disruption today centers on the negative aspects of technological change. Martin Stuchtey & Per-Andres Enkvist’s new book “A Good Disruption – Redefining growth for the 21st century” is a notable exception. In this book the authors envision a new growth model and argue that disruptive technologies now at our disposal will enable us to solve some of humanity’s largest problems, from environmental degradation over social inequality to...
May 19, 2017. There is a great new initiative to support newcomers in Germany who come from countries like Syria to enable them to be successful entrepreneurs - it's called Ideas in Motion and Infinity Institute supported the first cycle of the program and thus 8 newcomer entrepreneurs with free pitch training in May 2017. Ideas in Motion is the first Berlin-based business incubation program to be co-designed with and for newcomer entrepreneurs. The 5 month program...
May 11, 2017. In cooperation with LEAD Academy we are organizing an all-day workshop on June 17, 2017 on how to defend the open society against its enemies that have gained popularity recently across the Western world - the neo-national populists. The aim is to develop communication strategies and to collect stories that help us to deal effectively with them - be it in talkshows, debates....
March 10, 2017. How can we understand what is happening politically in the world currently? In a brand new format called TED Dialogues Chris Anderson interviews Yuval Noah Harari, author of "Homo Sapiens" and "Homo Deus". The historian with a knack for the future explains the political turmoil the world - and especially the West - has been facing recently...
Feb 13, 2017. What does leadership in the 21st century mean, in a world of rising speed, higher demands from more stakeholder groups and a more critical public sphere? What are the key challenges of leadership in the digital age and how best to address them from an organizational change perspective? These and other questions were discussed at LEAD Academy's Intersectoral Leadership Conference in Berlin on Feb 12, 2017, with a...
Jan 10, 2017. Particle Physicist & CERN researcher James Beacham's TEDxBerlin 2016 Talk on progress in science and how we explore unsanswered questions in science was put on TED's website and prominently featured on top of it for about a week. His talk has received more than 1 million hits since then, and we are especially proud...
On Dec 7, 2016, Infinity Institute's founder Christopher Kabakis was invited to give a guest lecture at VU Amsterdam (Free University Amsterdam) to a group of 80 mostly Master's students in Organizational Development, as part of...
In cooperation with LAJE, an innovation space in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo, Patricia Cotton and Christopher Kabakis are offering a 2x3h workshop on "Creative Leadership and the Power of Story" in Sao Paulo on June 23 and 24, 2016, and an intensive class in Rio of 1x3h on June 28, 2016, to the same topic.
