Re-humanize humans & re-beautify businesses

Tim Leberecht has been called a humanist in Silicon Valley, and I think that after listening to this episode you will know why.

In a world wired to shorterm-ism, what Tim brings to the table is how to recreate the beauty and longterm-ism in businesses. If you think about it, businesses and organisations is where people spend half of their time awake, almost every single day. That means that businesses hold an enormous potential for how we as humanity put our collective time, energy and resources to use. And since organisations is really nothing but the people within them, changing the mindset and behaviour of people might be the crucial link between business and climate action. I got to pick his brain on 4 ways to build a human company in the age of machines: Do the unnecessary, Create intimacy, Be ugly and Remain incomplete.

Tim is a German-American entrepreneur and author, and the co-founder and co-CEO of the House of Beautiful Business, a global think tank and community with the mission to make humans more human and business more beautiful.

His TED Talks “3 Ways to (Usefully) Lose Control of Your Brand” and most recently “4 Ways to Build a Human Company in the Age of Machines” have been viewed more than 2.5 million times to date.

Tim is the author of the book The Business Romantic and his writing regularly appears in publications such as Entrepreneur, Fast Company, Forbes, Fortune, Harvard Business Review, Inc, Quartz, Psychology Today, and Wired. His new book, The End of Winning, will be released next year.