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Leaders have a lot to lose

Fear of change is real. But it’s not the employees who fear change. It’s the leaders. It makes sense 👇 Research shows that a large component of fear of change is fear of loss. And leaders have a lot to lose: Status, influence, power, respect, high income. To achieve

Fear of asking questions

Have you ever held back a question or an idea because you were afraid of how your leaders and colleagues might react? If you have, you are not alone. Research from Harvard Business School shows that 70% face barriers to asking more questions at work. But what are the barriers?

Now what?

Imagine you were a senior executive who just received a mapping of the questions your employees ask each other. What would you do next? My job is to help senior executives in large companies collect and analyze the thousands of questions their employees ask each other. I help them translate

How to deal with boss babies

"When Emma wants something, she doesn't want it in two weeks or in two days. She wants it yesterday." Sounds like something you would say about a 2-year-old who wants an ice cream, right? But he wasn't talking about a 2-year-old. He was talking

“Han er et godt forbillede”

For nogle år siden brugte Yussuf Poulsen en sen eftermiddagstime på at vise min søn og hans kammerater, hvad der betyder noget her i livet. Det var ikke planlagt eller styret. Det var bare en stor dreng og hans kammerater, der benyttede en ledig stund til at spille lidt bold

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Åh nej, jeg har lige indset noget skrækkeligt om mig selv! Som ung ledelseskonsulent fik jeg at vide, at mit ultimative succeskriterium var at få medarbejderne i de virksomheder, jeg arbejdede for til at lære virksomhedens værdier udenad. Målet var, at medarbejderne kunne gengive værdierne ordret, hvis man vækkede dem

What is the purpose of AI?

AI: How we failed The Marshmallow TestWhat if AI is not about finding the best answers to the most difficult questions, but about avoiding dealing with the fact that some questions cannot be answered? Asking scientists and decision makers to deal with a question they do not know the answer

Would your organization pass The Monkey Test?

My favorite emojis are the little monkeys. And this weekend it occurred to me how perfectly they illustrate what happens when large organizations undergo a transformation. Whether it’s a digital, strategic or organizational transformation, employees go through four stages: 🙊Inactive They don’t talk about the transformation 🙈Reactive They

Want diversity? Forget being unbiased

Spirit of the Times: "What do you do to ensure that your analyzes are unbiased?" Me: “I don't strive to make unbiased analyzes” Spirit of the Times: "But aren’t you afraid that there are too many assumptions behind your analyzes and recommendations then?"

Finans: Store virksomheder transformerer sig ihjel

Det kan lyde som en selvmordsmission. Jeg er medejer af en lille startup, der hjælper store erfaringstunge virksomheder med at lykkes med deres digitale, strategiske og organisatoriske transformationer. Og så skriver jeg en klumme med titlen: Store virksomheder transformerer sig ihjel. Er det ikke at tage brødet ud af munden