
Besides integration and breaking up of platforms, there’s the option of them collaborating. This would help avoid possible downsides.
VP, Google Chief
Internet Evangelist

Headwinds in business:
fragmentation will slow us down.
Tailwinds in business:
connectedness of people and ideas.
Corporate President & CSO
Samsung Electronics

Embrace the paradoxical nature of leadership. It’s as much about setting the direction and connecting people with purpose as it is about listening.
Professor of Leadership & Management
Harvard Business School

Babies are also not born right after production. We need patience. That means the leaders need to shut up and listen to others first.
Co-Founder
Pixar Animation Studios

It’s too easy to say we can’t change the world, because we can.
Business Model Innovator
Co-Founder Strategyzer

In a world of temporary advantage innovation, technology, strategy and ecosystems are coming together.
Professor
Columbia Business School

I’d like to keep some of my problems. A world of solutions is too convenient and may inhibit growth.
Founding Publisher ada
HandelsblattMedia Group

Responsibility and impact work together.
CEO, WLJ Advisors

Maximizing shareholder value is a zero-sum game. We don’t want to create a walled garden, we want a rainforest.
CEO and Chairman of the Board of Directors
Haier Group

Find a challenge so big that it demands more than you can deal with and find others to jump in and help you do something about it.
Executive Director
MIT Leadership Center

If we are not building people-centred systems, none of this matters.
Founder, Future Today Institute

Ecosystems can be an open-ended metaphor for collaboration, or, precisely a new governance form.
Professor, London Business School

Culture is a byproduct of leadership.
PTDO Chief Management Officer
US Department of Defense

The real challenge with ecosystems is implementation, not design.
Academic Director Executive MBA HSG
University of St. Gallen

Any change in the workplace that doesn’t change structures of domination, cannot be called progress.
Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour
INSEAD

No longer is the value of a firm in its assets but in its network of relationships.
Deputy Dean & Professor
London Business School

For changing culture and mindsets, you need to speak up, challenge and be challenged. When is the last time you felt truly challenged?
Professor of Leadership and Dialogue
Hult International Business School

Domination is not the answer.
Balance is.
CEO of 20-first

With one foot we are in legacy and with the other in digital. Management needs to consider both worlds.
Group CEO
Giesecke+Devrient

Ecosystems are not a phenomenon of digital companies. People are central to helping with the challenges of ecosystems
Managing Director
Austro Control GmbH