Matters of Consequence is a weekly podcast about interesting people and the things they are trying to change.
Each episode is a conversation with someone engaged in work that feels meaningful. Sometimes it is ambitious and highly visible. Sometimes it is small, local, or quietly radical.
This podcast is not about polished success stories or finished answers. It is about lived experience. About motivations, doubts, trade-offs, and responsibility. About what it feels like to try, to care, and to act in situations that are complex and unresolved.
There is no fixed format and no attempt to extract lessons or frameworks. The focus is on listening, curiosity, and attention. On letting people speak in their own words, and letting conversations unfold in their own pace and direction.
Matters of Consequence is hosted by Michael Hanf.
You can find the podcast at: Matters of Consequence Podcast
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Matters of Consequence is a weekly podcast about interesting people and the things they are trying to change.
Each episode is a conversation with someone engaged in work that feels meaningful. Sometimes it is ambitious and highly visible. Sometimes it is small, local, or quietly radical.
This podcast is not about polished success stories or finished answers. It is about lived experience. About motivations, doubts, trade-offs, and responsibility. About what it feels like to try, to care, and to act in situations that are complex and unresolved.
There is no fixed format and no attempt to extract lessons or frameworks. The focus is on listening, curiosity, and attention. On letting people speak in their own words, and letting conversations unfold in their own pace and direction.
Matters of Consequence is hosted by Michael Hanf.
You can find the podcast at: Matters of Consequence Podcast
Matters of Consequence is also on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/106671921
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
What does it mean to move forward in a world where disruption has become the baseline? At the Nordic Business Forum 2025 in Helsinki, the Future of Sustainability podcast explored this question with keynote speakers, contributors, and participants from across the event.
Howard Yu, LEGO Professor of Management and Innovation at IMD, explained why the most future-ready companies reject the trade-off between short-term performance and long-term transformation. “The best companies do not balance. They excel at both,” he argued. Yu pointed to industries like automotive, where software capabilities are now indispensable both for competing today and for preparing for tomorrow’s mobility. His message to leaders: identify the few capabilities that strengthen both horizons and pursue them with discipline. “Budget is not a plan,” Yu emphasized. “Strategy is about making trade-offs and scaling what matters.”
Peter Hinssen, entrepreneur and author, added a mindset perspective. He described today’s reality as the never normal, a state of continuous disruption where stability no longer applies. “In the never normal, resilience is not about bouncing back. It is about bouncing forward,” he told the audience. Using Microsoft’s reinvention under Satya Nadella as an example, Hinssen illustrated how companies can transform by letting go of what he calls “yesterwork,” the routines and processes that once delivered results but now hold organizations back. “Yesterwork is the silent killer of organizations,” he warned. For Hinssen, leadership today is about cultivating curiosity, creating reversible “two-way door” decisions, and building organizations designed to learn at scale.
On the HS Visio Live Studio stage, Riina Bhatia, Research Scientist at VTT, broadened the lens to society as a whole. She reminded the audience that seven of nine planetary boundaries have already been transgressed. Moving forward, she argued, requires redefining growth itself. “Economic success cannot simply mean ‘more,’” Bhatia noted. Instead, harmful sectors must shrink while those that contribute to well-being expand. Metrics beyond GDP—covering health, education, and resource efficiency—are mature enough to be adopted, she emphasized.
Voices from the forum floor reinforced these themes with practical perspectives. Atte Jääskeläinen, President of Finnish Innovation Fund SITRA, stressed that progress begins with honesty about where we are now. Without this, ambition risks being built on illusion. Juha Mattsson, CEO of Futures Platform, highlighted the importance of agency: foresight and signal detection only matter when leaders act on them before certainty arrives.
From the next generation, Sara Makkonen, Commercialization Associate at Aircohol, called for courage and openness. She urged decision-makers to give new technologies the space to succeed, even if that means allowing for failure along the way. And from the aviation sector, Finnair’s Senior Sustainability Manager, Tarja Koski, reminded listeners that transformation in hard-to-abate industries will require incremental steps and broad collaboration rather than quick fixes.
Taken together, these voices sketch a clear picture of what moving forward means in 2025. It is not about restoring stability or accelerating blindly into the future. It is about clarity of priorities, courage to dismantle what no longer serves, and discipline to invest in what matters most. Leaders must perform and transform at the same time, bounce forward instead of back, and redefine success to align with both human well-being and planetary limits.
Moving forward is not a slogan. It is the discipline of leadership in the never normal.
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