Archive - SI-POW

Dubai - What if your country acted like a venture fund?

Reflections on how Dubai's government operates like a venture fund, using profitable business ownership to drive national prosperity without relying on…

Aug 7 •

Steffen KONRATH

#08 Psychological Safety – The True Catalyst of Collective Intelligence

Why Real Innovation Begins Where Fear Ends. Rethinking Psychological Safety as a Strategic Prerequisite, Not a Perk

Aug 7 •

Oliver Hoffmann

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Steffen KONRATH

July 2025

#07 Motivation as Inner Architecture - Beyond Incentives and Willpower

Why authentic motivation emerges from coherence, not carrots and sticks.

Jul 25 •

Oliver Hoffmann

#6 Attention as a Strategic Asset – The Currency of Cognitive Work

Rethinking productivity: Why attention, not time, is your most finite resource.

Jul 10 •

Oliver Hoffmann

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Steffen KONRATH

#5 The Myth of Teachable Resilience – And What Organizations Really Need to Understand

Resilience is not something we install into people. It is something that emerges — or fails to emerge — depending on the conditions we create around and…

Jul 3 •

Oliver Hoffmann

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Steffen KONRATH

June 2025

#4 Emotion as Infrastructure – Rethinking What Powers Human Work

When organizations speak of emotion, they tend to do so in the margins. Rarely, if ever, is emotion treated as what it truly is.

Jun 26 •

Oliver Hoffmann

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Steffen KONRATH

#3 Cognitive Capital – The Most Mismanaged Asset in Modern Work

We praise mental labor but design work that depletes the very minds we depend on, ignoring the hidden cost to our most vital resource: cognitive…

Jun 18 •

Oliver Hoffmann

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Steffen KONRATH

#2 Beyond Skills – Why Inner States Will Define Performance

Leadership’s New Frontier: The Architecture of Inner Experience

Jun 8 •

Oliver Hoffmann

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Steffen KONRATH

#1 The Future of Work Is Psychological - And Why That Changes Everything

The future of work is psychological. This is not a metaphor. It is a structural insight.

Jun 4 •

Oliver Hoffmann

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Steffen KONRATH

May 2025

Dear Reader ...

"Psychology of Work," also from a semantic perspective, is what the acronym "si-pow" stands for. si-pow explores the psychological foundations of modern…

May 27 •

Oliver Hoffmann

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Steffen KONRATH

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