Personal Disruptive Innovation

Owing to the lessons learned throughout the COVID-19 crisis, it is about time to design a better world that is characterized by empathy, personal integrity, no corruption, no racism, respect for nature, working smarter, circularity, a changed role of HR, good governance, and ethical leadership. The significant feature in this better world entails SUSTAINABILITY, that is, sustainability in innovation, design, HR, leadership, diversity & inclusion, family businesses, corporate governance, and higher management education, as shown in this figure. The first rule of sustainability is alignment with yourself, to continuously perceive what you do sustainability and be aware of the influence of your behavior and actions on human beings, animals, plants, and the environment. This is personal integrity, which is the foundation of empathy and eco-design thinking. In my articles "HOW TO DESIGN A BETTER WORLD" and "Sustainability Starts With Yourself", I discussed in detail how to design this better world sustainably. In this article I will focus on sustainability in innovation. This is based on my new book "Eco-Design Thinking for Personal, Corporate and Social Innovation; How to Become a Disruptive Eco-Design Thinker Like Elon Musk". Read the excerpt of this book, which is about reimagining design and innovation. Designing a better world requires a new way of thinking.