The changes currently taking place have shaken up companies. According to Nicole Brandes, International Management Coach and partner of Zukunftsinstitut, companies are in a situation somewhere between stability and disruption. It is all about meeting the challenges of tomorrow’s competitive market, and most senior executives regard “progress as going from  A to B“, said Nicole Brandes. “Maybe it makes them happy but it is not sustainable.“ From her long-term experience she knew that “behind success lies emptiness and helplessness.“ He who sets off into the unknown unleashes energy.

Once upon a time discoverers set off into the unknown and were thought of as mad, was how Nicole Brandes, a partner of Zukunftsinstitut, began her keynote at the ITB MICE FORUM. People like James Cook or Jacques Piccard explored the world, and people and societies had time to take in new information and get used to it.