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Creative ideas aren’t born in a stark and uninspiring office space. Real estate developer Fredrik Carlström is convinced of this. At the 17th European Trend Day on 10 March, Carlström demonstrated how he creates workplaces for innovation, and how we can expect to be working after the pandemic.

What are the new challenges facing bosses in an age of working from home, and what does good leadership from home look like? International speakers provided answers at the 8th Academy of Behavioural Economics. The video recording is available online.

The world has entered a new state of paralysis, as no one knows when things will return to normal, argues economist and former GDI guest speaker Tyler Cowen in an opinion piece for the news agency Bloomberg.

The new GDI "Future skills" study outlines four scenarios for the year 2050 and identifies the skills needed for these futures. Will there still be jobs for everyone? And would it be a bad thing if there weren’t?

From a technical point of view, the future of work has long been here, writes GDI researcher Stefan Breit in an article. Due to the corona pandemic, the mind-shift is now following. Remote is becoming the standard, on-site the exception. An information graphic shows how and where we will work in the future.

Raffaella Sadun, Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, surveyed over 1,000 CEOs across six countries to answer questions about CEO effectiveness. At the 8th Academy of Behavioral Economics on 27 January 2021, Sadun will elaborate on what good leadership in pandemic times looks like.

To be as individual as possible – but also to be part of a group: What sounds like squaring the circle is what we are aspiring to today. In a study, GDI researchers describe how a combination of these opposing needs could be possible.

No need to work anymore–this dream could soon become true, thanks to rapid technological progress. In a Financial Times podcast, economist Lord Adair Turner discusses the social consequences of increasingly smart AI.

Despite enormous technological advances, productivity of the economy increases very slowly. Thought leader Lord Adair Turner explains this paradox here and at the GDI on 21 January, 2019.

Customer-oriented, keen to experiment and networked – Jan Sedlacek, co-founder of business consultancy Stryber, knows what makes successful executives in the digital age. In an interview with the GDI, he explains why this is less about skills than about the way of thinking.