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Category: Leadership and Management

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Death of a Salesman?

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 …

Leadership and Management / News / Organizational Patterns

Hidden treasures of radical improvement – Intrinsic Motivation

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 …

A Collaborate effort
Leadership and Management / News / Organizational Patterns / Servant Leadership

Getting started with Agile Customer Circles

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 …

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Pseudo Work in the Post Corona World

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 …

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Handling Sudden drops into Chaos

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 …

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Management is Broken beyond Repair

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 …

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What have we learned from the Corona crisis? A trap

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 …

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The Road Back – from Chaos

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 …

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Being proactive in a world of chaos, new initiatives

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, …

Leadership and Management / News / Servant Leadership

Corona and Chaos

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 …

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Strange rings in the water after the Coronavirus

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 …

Leadership and Management / Navigating the Rapids / News / Organizational Patterns / Servant Leadership

General Stanley McChrystal: Team of Teams

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 …

Leadership and Management / News

Situational Awareness and Maneuverability in Teams

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 …

Leadership and Management / News / Organizational Patterns / Servant Leadership

Working the Agile way in Non-profit Organizations

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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(Dansk) Prince2 og Scrum

Sorry, this entry is only available in Danish.

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The Leadership Cornerstones

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 …

Leadership and Management / News

Confessions of a Scrum Trainer

“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.  …

Leadership and Management / Navigating the Rapids / News / Servant Leadership

The Attraction of Classic Hierarchies

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 …

Curiosa / Leadership and Management / News

How command and control works

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, …

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Agile in 60 Seconds

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 …

Leadership and Management / Navigating the Rapids / News / Organizational Patterns / Servant Leadership

Guns and Roses

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, …

Leadership and Management / Navigating the Rapids / News / Servant Leadership

Complexity once again: Liminal Cynefin

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 …

Leadership and Management / News

Complexity – the human condition

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 …

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Reclaim and proclaim

In the previous articles (#1, #2 and #3) I wrote about how the west was lost to the neo-Taylorist managerial totalitarianism. The latest article ended on a slightly lighter note …

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Leadership on the other side of the fence

Through the last articles I investigated some of the studies and narratives about management and leadership, and how the West was lost to that particular style of management that can be …

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