Post by Jan Van den Broeck

Communicatie-expert voor toekomstbouwers. / De wereld verandert snel. Jij bepaalt koers. Nu de rest nog. / Ik help je om nieuwe ideeรซn en innovatie helder te communiceren, zodat je stakeholders mee vooruit willen.

๐”๐ง๐œ๐ž๐ซ๐ญ๐š๐ข๐ง๐ญ๐ฒ ๐ž๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ๐ฒ๐ฐ๐ก๐ž๐ซ๐ž! ๐–๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐ข๐Ÿ ๐ฐ๐ž ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ž๐ ๐ข๐ญ ๐š๐ฌ ๐š ๐ซ๐ž๐ฌ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ๐œ๐ž?ย  Lately, I've been re-reading a lot of my doctoral research on urban development in Nairobi, Kenya. ย  โ“ Why, you might ask? ย  ๐Ÿ’ก Well, between 2012 and 2016, I tried to make sense of how people dealt with uncertainty in amidstย large scale urban development,ย often marketed as sustainable and smart cities, in and around Nairobi. ย  โญ๏ธ Fast forward to today. We are living in a time of transition. Some would say crisis, but I guess that's a matter of perspective. And today, the many lessons Nairobians taught me, seem to be more relevant than ever. ย  ๐€๐Ÿ๐ญ๐ž๐ซ ๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ, ๐›๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ข๐ง๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ž๐ฌ ๐š๐ซ๐ž ๐œ๐จ๐ง๐ฌ๐ญ๐š๐ง๐ญ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐ง๐š๐ฏ๐ข๐ ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐š๐ง ๐ž๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ ๐œ๐ก๐š๐ง๐ ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ข๐ง๐œ๐ซ๐ž๐š๐ฌ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐ฎ๐ง๐œ๐ž๐ซ๐ญ๐š๐ข๐ง ๐ฐ๐จ๐ซ๐ฅ๐. ๐“๐ก๐ž๐ฒ ๐ก๐š๐ฏ๐ž ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฅ๐ž๐ญ ๐ ๐จ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐จ๐ฅ๐ ๐ฐ๐š๐ฒ๐ฌ ๐›๐ฎ๐ญ ๐๐จ๐ง'๐ญ ๐ค๐ง๐จ๐ฐ ๐ฐ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐ง๐ž๐ฐ ๐ฐ๐š๐ฒ๐ฌ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐๐ฎ๐œ๐ž ๐›๐ž๐ง๐ž๐Ÿ๐ข๐œ๐ข๐š๐ฅ ๐ซ๐ž๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ญ๐ฌ. ย  โ€ผ๏ธ Now, I want to do a little experiment. I want to transfer my anthropological research from this Kenyan metropolis to today's context of businesses and/in transition. I want to use the former as a mirror for the latter. ย  I will do so in a series of articles. In the first article, I focus on ๐ฎ๐ง๐œ๐ž๐ซ๐ญ๐š๐ข๐ง๐ญ๐ฒ ๐š๐ฌ ๐š ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐๐ฎ๐œ๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐ž ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ๐œ๐ž. ย  ๐Ÿ™ I will publish one article, every week, starting today, for god knows how long. And I would love for you all to comment on it, share your insights and ideas, give feedback, tell me where you think I'm wrong or right or somewhere in between. ย  I invite everyone to join the conversation. More particularly, I would like to reach out to Jan Leyssens, Stefaan Vandist, Lucas De Man, Fredo De Smet, Lien De Ruyck ๐ŸŒฑ, Koenraad Depauw, Nic Vermaut, Jocelijn Geurts, Siviglia Berto โœ”๏ธ, Eva๐ŸŒท Balemans, Annelies Lenaerts, Kathleen Renders, Julie Poppe, Stefan Van Ouytsel, Robin ibens, Koen Thewissen Sebastiaan de Voogd โ™พ๏ธ, Sebastiaan F.M. De Block, Jonas Kiesekoms, Sarah Parent, Wannes Van Giel, Frederik Picard, Chris Van Gils, Rik Vera, Koen Schoors, Filip Burgelman, Lieve Hauben, Stรฉphane Vanden Broeck, Els Boersma. Some of you I know. Some of you I don't. Some of you I have worked with or talked to. Some of you I haven't (yet). But I've been following all of you (for a while) and I have learned from doing so, so I would love to hear your thoughts on this. #uncertainty #strategy #entrepreneurship #impactentrepreneurship #storytelling #transition #transformation #culture #learning #leadership #sustainability #urbanism #anthropology

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