Innovation begins with a spark, but sparks need people and serendipity to build the better enterprises we urgently need today. This session brings together two powerful lenses on that challenge: Henry Mintzberg's lifelong inquiry into how organisations are structured, how strategy actually forms, and what communityship really means — alongside the Enterprise Design methodology, which gives practitioners concrete tools to shape enterprises as coherent wholes with intent.

Mintzberg has argued that healthy societies require a balance between government, business, and the plural sector of communities. Enterprises bear responsibility for more than shareholder returns. His recent work on rebalancing society and on the role of serendipity in organisational life raises urgent questions for anyone designing enterprises today: What does it mean to create better enterprises in an imbalanced world? How do you create the conditions for ideas to survive, scale, and deliver genuine impact without reducing everything to a plan?

In this interactive Q&A, we put these topics and your questions directly to Henry Mintzberg, connecting his thinking to Enterprise Design practice and to the central challenge of Intersection 26: going beyond the spark to turn ideas into enterprises that matter.