Dr. Rüdiger Fox is a visionary business leader and innovator who has transformed corporate thinking through his groundbreaking concept of Gross Corporate Happiness. A serial CEO with experience leading seven mid-sized companies, Fox is renowned for his unique approach to organizational management that prioritizes employee well-being, sustainability, and purpose-driven leadership.
With a background in aerospace engineering and business administration, Fox has distinguished himself as more than just a traditional executive. He is a researcher, thought leader, and change-maker who has been recognized internationally for his pioneering work. In 2020, he was awarded the prestigious Planetary Consciousness Award, often referred to as the „Nobel Prize for planetary thinking and action“, highlighting his significant contributions to reimagining corporate success. Currently serving as CEO of Sympatex Technologies, Fox is actively transforming the textile company into a leader in the circular economy while consistently challenging traditional business paradigms. His philosophical approach goes beyond profit, emphasizing the importance of creating meaningful, sustainable organizations that prioritize both human and environmental well-being.
Dr. Rüdiger Fox is a visionary business leader and innovator who has transformed corporate thinking through his groundbreaking concept of Gross Corporate Happiness. A serial CEO with experience leading seven mid-sized companies, Fox is renowned for his unique approach to organizational management that prioritizes employee well-being, sustainability, and purpose-driven leadership.
With a background in aerospace engineering and business administration, Fox has distinguished himself as more than just a traditional executive. He is a researcher, thought leader, and change-maker who has been recognized internationally for his pioneering work. In 2020, he was awarded the prestigious Planetary Consciousness Award, often referred to as the „Nobel Prize for planetary thinking and action“, highlighting his significant contributions to reimagining corporate success. Currently serving as CEO of Sympatex Technologies, Fox is actively transforming the textile company into a leader in the circular economy while consistently challenging traditional business paradigms. His philosophical approach goes beyond profit, emphasizing the importance of creating meaningful, sustainable organizations that prioritize both human and environmental well-being.
This book shows what the principles of evolution have in common with ants and the state of Bhutan. With the „Gross Corporate Happiness“ approach, it presents a scientifically sound and tried-and-tested leadership model and elevates employees from a cost factor to the most important economic driver for sustainable corporate success in the knowledge society. The work provides answers to the most burning questions of corporate management in the context of globalization and digitalization: How do I motivate my employees properly? How do I increase my company’s innovation performance? How do I create a culture of cooperation, agility and resilience in times of constant change?
Dr. Rüdiger Fox explains how intrinsic motivation becomes a business case in the economic context and breaks down the internal organizational framework that, in addition to satisfaction and „flow“, increases employees‘ ability to innovate and cooperate. Drawing on his practical management experience, the author shows how organizations can become significantly more efficient in complex and dynamic markets.
We make most decisions based on learned standards, as if on autopilot. In today’s complex, volatile world, however, the old strategies often no longer work. It is therefore time to learn to change perspectives, to slip into new roles – and to recalibrate our decisions by PLAYING. Yes, PLAYING! Because the ability to play releases exactly the skills that we need in these unpredictable times and in the future world. Rüdiger Fox impressively describes how we can playfully develop our individual and social potential. We go through different game situations in which the respective 0.1 percent joker gives us the appropriate „superpowers“. Does the situation seem hopeless and the resistance is overwhelming? Then the joker „ATHLET:IN“ helps and you unleash unimagined energy for the right cause. Are you constrained by rigid structures? The joker „COURT JESTER“ helps you to use humor to expose the mental models behind it and break the shackles. Slip into the respective role depending on the challenge and playfully discover the skills that lie within you with seven different jokers. Rüdiger Fox combines game research with anthropology to create a new way to playfully develop our personality, regain our self-determination, and maybe even save the world in the end. Because he says: Only with more creativity and cooperation in fear-free spaces can we give our lives and the world the decisive change of direction. In this way, the deep insights into our present become a wonderful journey into a human future in which PLAYING becomes the all-important skill – enriched by many personal experiences and exciting examples from all areas of life.
WHAT IF…
The human imagination has always been the decisive factor in every invention and discovery, large and small.
The same applies to the progress of our personal development – as well as the development of our teams, companies, educational systems and society. Because the greatest wealth of every person is their visionary nature.
Rüdiger Fox and Peter Spiegel, experienced and successful vision workers, show how we can playfully rediscover our visionary power in a world that is changing ever faster and make it usable for all of us.
„Developing the deeply human in us is the central task of the 21st century.“ Gerald Huether
„Imagination is what makes us human.“ Sir Ken Robinson
This book shows what the principles of evolution have in common with ants and the state of Bhutan. With the „Gross Corporate Happiness“ approach, it presents a scientifically sound and tried-and-tested leadership model and elevates employees from a cost factor to the most important economic driver for sustainable corporate success in the knowledge society. The work provides answers to the most burning questions of corporate management in the context of globalization and digitalization: How do I motivate my employees properly? How do I increase my company’s innovation performance? How do I create a culture of cooperation, agility and resilience in times of constant change?
Dr. Rüdiger Fox explains how intrinsic motivation becomes a business case in the economic context and breaks down the internal organizational framework that, in addition to satisfaction and „flow“, increases employees‘ ability to innovate and cooperate. Drawing on his practical management experience, the author shows how organizations can become significantly more efficient in complex and dynamic markets.
We make most decisions based on learned standards, as if on autopilot. In today’s complex, volatile world, however, the old strategies often no longer work. It is therefore time to learn to change perspectives, to slip into new roles – and to recalibrate our decisions by PLAYING. Yes, PLAYING! Because the ability to play releases exactly the skills that we need in these unpredictable times and in the future world. Rüdiger Fox impressively describes how we can playfully develop our individual and social potential. We go through different game situations in which the respective 0.1 percent joker gives us the appropriate „superpowers“. Does the situation seem hopeless and the resistance is overwhelming? Then the joker „ATHLET:IN“ helps and you unleash unimagined energy for the right cause. Are you constrained by rigid structures? The joker „COURT JESTER“ helps you to use humor to expose the mental models behind it and break the shackles. Slip into the respective role depending on the challenge and playfully discover the skills that lie within you with seven different jokers. Rüdiger Fox combines game research with anthropology to create a new way to playfully develop our personality, regain our self-determination, and maybe even save the world in the end. Because he says: Only with more creativity and cooperation in fear-free spaces can we give our lives and the world the decisive change of direction. In this way, the deep insights into our present become a wonderful journey into a human future in which PLAYING becomes the all-important skill – enriched by many personal experiences and exciting examples from all areas of life.
WHAT IF…
The human imagination has always been the decisive factor in every invention and discovery, large and small.
The same applies to the progress of our personal development – as well as the development of our teams, companies, educational systems and society. Because the greatest wealth of every person is their visionary nature.
Rüdiger Fox and Peter Spiegel, experienced and successful vision workers, show how we can playfully rediscover our visionary power in a world that is changing ever faster and make it usable for all of us.
„Developing the deeply human in us is the central task of the 21st century.“
Gerald Hüther
„Imagination is what makes us human.“
Sir Ken Robinson
Creating a Flow Organization to Lead into the Future
Handbook of Personal and Organizational Transformation by Judi Neal – Springer
Activating the Corporate Soul
Handbook of Personal and Organizational Transformation by Judi Neal – Springer
Future Skills – Das Praxishandbuch für Zukunftsgestalter
Zukunftsentscheidende Kompetenzen und wie wir sie lernen können – Vahlen Verlag
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