I took me a while to realize the real value of a socio-professional network. In the early years as a consultant, I relied on more senior consultants for new opportunities, and during the time in IBM, I was surrounded by layers of rigid organization structure with systematic resource management and sales professionals.
In spite of this, [...]
Recently I was asked to speak at a Employer Branding conference in Copenhagen. So what is Employer Branding, and what is my take on it?
The basic idea is that companies are competing for top talents, and therefore organizations need to brand them selves to existing employees and future candidates. The concept has spread across industries [...]
Social tools and mobile devices can enrich our lives and help us organize ourselves in better ways.
But one – often overlooked – aspect of the new media reality is the steep increase in distractions and alerts. Calendar alerts. Email alerts. Social network alerts. App alerts. Task management tool alerts. SMS reminders. And so on…
Science tells us [...]
Many articles and books have been written on organizational culture and culture change. On of my favourites is Joanne Martins classic three perspectives which proposes three complimentary views – integration, differentation and fragmentation.
Although it has been demonstrated by Martin and others that organizational culture is something fluid and ambiguous, most management advisors and consulting firms continue [...]
I once worked in a company that used “Your simply the best (Tina Turner)” as their corporate hymn. Apart from the fact that it was utterly untrue, there is a certain arrogance to it -”simply the best, better than all the rest…” . As anyone with a little knowledge of organizational culture would now, the [...]
I attended the “Leading through change” seminar with Dave Snowden of Cognetive Edge yesterday. I tweeted all day and the highlights can be seen at https://twitter.com/search?q=%23SnowdenCph
So did I learn anything? I certainly think it was useful to get “the unfiltered” version of Mr Snowdens thinking directly from the source. Also, it was good to get [...]
I did a speech last week at the Danish Police Union named “fremtidens fagforening: union governance 2020″ (Danish for The future of Labour Unions).
Labour unions is a key part of democracy. The right to assemble and fight for better conditions for employees is still very relevant. Nevertheless, unions all over the western world are struggling [...]
A topic that is top of mind currently is new ways of learning, in particular applying social media #in education. My interest in this is in the role as a part time teacher at Copenhagen Business School, and as a consultant at Wemind where I am currently responsible for an initiative within this focus area.
As [...]
I was recently asked to do a speech on Employee Empowernment for a team of communicaition managers. Here are a few highlights.
Empowerment is not anarchy. Empowerment is about delegation of authority and enabling of responsible action at the right time
We are living in a complex world: Globalization, Fragmentation, Technological Distruption and Economic Volatility. The only [...]
We are launching toolturf.com today – tool wiki, community and blogs for business professionals and consultants. The idea is to provide an open forum where professionals can share methods, tools and thougths. For your convienience, we have enabled sign-up using Facebook, Linked in or Twitter. Everything is free. Looking forward to receive some feedback!
Thanks to [...]
