Radical Improvement through Transparency and Collaboration
Last month we held our first Scrum Master Advanced course, next up is another addition to the course catalogue, the corresponding Product Owner Advanced course. This training will be held …
Thurs. May 20. 2021, at 7:00 PM CET/ 1:00 PM East Coast, USA. Duration 1 hour Presenters: Paul Norton and Anne Due Broberg We shamelessly stole part of our title from …
Without sales no company can survive, so why is the Sales Professional so precarious an occupation? By rethinking sales management, is it possible to improve performance and create truly sustainable …
In Douglas Adams’ brilliantly funny novel, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, the computer “Deep Thought” was asked about the meaning of life. It considered the question for 7.5 million …
Introduction The arguments in favor of developing a team approach to customer facing functions are compelling, but saying it one thing, doing it quite another; the magnitude of the change …
Den 3. juli 2020 var der en artikel i finans.dk, med titlen “Halvdelen af danskerne føler, at de laver ligegyldigt arbejde”, den handler om en undersøgelse foretaget af konsulenthuset Balisager …
We are continuing our summer school 2020 in order to spread the knowledge about Scrum, Agile, Lean and other resilient patterns. The format is a short presentation of an interesting …
The current management paradigm is broken beyond repair. As the 21st Century progresses it becomes increasingly clear that the top-down hierarchy of control based on power, known for centuries, doesn’t …
We are about to start opening up society again after working as if we were on another planet for two months using solely online tools. We have had to very …
In 1929 the German author, Erich Maria Remarque, wrote the novel “Der Weg Zurück” or “The Road Back”, about German soldiers trying to return to civilization after the nightmare and …
We are entering the second month of Corona lockdown, with almost no ordinary activity, increasingly facing a world with little resemblance to the previous one. Inspired by the image above, …
Sudden drops into Chaos It has been a month since the Prime Minister of Denmark (Mette Frederiksen) ordered the country to lock down. I was at a blues concert when …
This week our media has made some observations, reflections and revelations of unusual situations and reactions which are worth noting and which I cannot avoid seeing from the perspective of …
General Stanley McChrystal (SMC), who from 2003 led the Joint Special Operations Task Force in Iraq, wrote a book called “Team of Teams” in 2015 about his learnings in Iraq …
In Denmark we have a phenomenon that we call “Black Sun”. It happens in the fall when thousands of starlings gather in the marshlands of Jutland and prepare for their …
Normally we think of agility as man’s best friend jumping through hoops and performing other tricks, however Agile is also a modern way of organising work and achieving better results. …
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Cornerstone of the Cathedral of Saint Paul in Macau (1602). The original uploader was Iidxplus at Chinese Wikipedia. 2018 was a year with many challenges, debates and excursions around the …
“Forgive me, Father, for I have sinned! It’s been a while since my last confession.” This sentence is the prologue to many a surprising new development in movies and novels. …
During the heat-wave over Europe this past summer, I realized that the little grey cells of our brains seem to suffocate and become slow and lazy in such conditions. It …
One of my favorite cartoonists is Mort Walker, who passed away earlier this year after almost 80 years of producing comic strips. His main contribution is the cartoon Beetle Bailey, …
The term Agile is used in many ways, but at the very least it covers different sets of values, patterns, principles and methods to cope with working in environments of …
No, this is not about the American hard rock band with the numerous internal fights and frictions, normally spelled “Guns N’ Roses”. It is instead about the quite surprising fact, …
Often we find that it is the borderline areas of concepts that really define their true nature. So it is with complexity. Dave Snowden has once again, true to his …
Throughout most of the history of human civilization and society, mankind has had the understanding that we only have limited insight into cause and effect in the world. People have …