Mocha Müller

Mokka Müller (* around 1955 in Munich ) is a German publicist and essayist . She is considered an expert in information economics .

Life

From 1973 to 1978 Mokka Müller studied economics , sociology and philosophy at the University of Cologne . She was an employee of Prof. Dr. Hans Karl Schneider , the chairman of the expert council for the assessment of the macroeconomic development . In 1974 she completed a guest semester in Cape Town.

In 1979 and 1980 she made extensive trips to India, Nepal and Israel.

In 1982 she did her doctorate in Cologne with Professor Philipp Herder-Dorneich and Professor Renate Mayntz as Dr. rer. pole.

Between 1982 and 1984 she did an internship at Deutsche Welle in Cologne and Berlin.

From 1984 to 1994 she worked as a freelance author , presenter and correspondent for business and science editors at ARD and ZDF . She is a sought-after speaker on the transformation of the industrial economy into a network economy and wrote numerous columns a . a. for the Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ).

In 1994 Mokka Müller founded the Institute for Future Management in Cologne, which dealt with the economic, cultural and intellectual consequences of the post-industrial economy and society. In a kind of salon in Cologne-Lindenthal, entrepreneurs , managers , publicists, journalists , scientists , artists , collectors and gallery owners met regularly to exchange ideas on current topics from business and society. The institute moved to Feldafing near Munich in 2000 and ended its activities as a company at the end of 2008. Knowledge and content persist in Mokka Müller's work. She is instrumental in the CODE FOR CHANGE program, an avant-garde training program that she developed together with scientists and network experts from Palo Alto , New York, Vienna and Bremen.

From 1999 to 2001 she was an innovation advisor to the government of North Rhine-Westphalia .

Her book, The Fourth Field , made her famous at once. She is considered one of the most renowned German experts in the information society . Mokka Müller is a member of the World Business Academy. She lives in Munich and Paris.

job

Mokka Müller's areas of interest are widespread, her focus is on the logic of social, biological and economic networks as well as the transition from capitalism to informationalism . According to Mokka Müller, this transition will lead to new patterns and elites and calls for a radical revision of our self-image and our worldview . In an integral approach, Mokka Müller combines ideas from economics , biology , physics , computer science and philosophy. She is also interested in those forces that, in addition to reason, guide our actions and determine their course: chance , memory , uncertainty , public spirit , resonance and happiness .

Works

Books

• The fourth field. The bio-logic of a new leadership elite . ECON-Verlag, 2001. ISBN 978-3-430-16858-8
• The fourth field. Bio-logic is revolutionizing economy and society . Mentopolis Verlag Cologne, 1998. ISBN 978-3-9806549-0-6

Columns and Articles

• Management 2002: The bio-logic of the management elite . business future, 2001
• Attention, risk of infection! Süddeutsche Zeitung, December 23, 2001
• The power of virtual communities lies in their social added value . Berliner Morgenpost, June 18, 2001
• The world is shaped as we think it is . Der Tagesspiegel, 3./4. June 2001
• Bio-Logic: Survival on the Net . GDI Impulse 01/01 (quarterly publication of the Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute, 01/2001)
• Innovation: trumps in global competition . Annual economic report of the Ministry for Economic Affairs and Medium-Sized Enterprises, Energy and Transport of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, 01/2000
• Economy of ideas . Festschrift for the Ministry of Economic Affairs of North Rhine-Westphalia, December 2000
• Virtual communities as the marketplace of the future . changeX.de, 12/2000
• Lure customers with content . Süddeutsche Zeitung, January 29, 2000
• King content . Süddeutsche Zeitung, December 21, 2000
• Swarms in the future . Süddeutsche Zeitung, April 25, 2000
• What companies can learn from animals . Berliner Morgenpost, February 15, 2000
• The possibility factories of the future . Süddeutsche Zeitung, January 21, 2000
• Seduce by giving away . Süddeutsche Zeitung, November 8, 1999
• The economic value of wetware . Süddeutsche Zeitung, July 17, 1999

Essays

• Success on the net. The economy in the 21st century obeys the principles of biology
• Economy of ideas
• Bio-Logic - New Mental Software of the Elite.
• Search for meaning. New added value determines success
• From provincial nest to "micro-city".
• Boom in the health market
• Body cult - focus on the way to meaning
• World of contradictions. Living and working in a networked world.
• Border crossing. The end of the world is no more.
• Caution contagious! Good ideas and innovations spread virally.
• Competition of the good. Entrepreneurship, generosity and intuition shape the coming power elite.
• Complex is not always complicated
• The power behind the scenes. What really determines our actions.

Web links

• Website of Mokka Müller
• sueddeutsche.de
• changeX - online magazine
• World Business Academy website (English)