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Developing Self-Confidence as a Leader
JULY 24, 2024
When I turned 26, I got a promotion to lead a team. I worked in a big company that operated in four different countries. I became the Head of Talent, in charge of 25 consultants who found people for...
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Drama Triangle Explained
JULY 23, 2024
The Drama Triangle illustrates unhealthy interpersonal dynamics involving three roles: Victim, Persecutor, and Rescuer. In leadership, these roles can impede team collaboration and growth. It’s...
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Overcoming Procrastination (and How to Help Your Team Do the Same)
JULY 23, 2024
Procrastination, a universal challenge, affects the productivity of individuals and teams in the workplace. While it’s often misconstrued as mere laziness, procrastination has far-reaching...
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Radical Candor for Effective Communication in the Workplace
JULY 23, 2024
Effective and empathetic communication plays a crucial role in the workplace, especially when encouraging collaboration, engagement, and team productivity.
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Working for the boss or working together?
JULY 22, 2024
Although a lot of people I know get inspiration from management courses and books, there’s one thing they often ask themselves. ‘What can I start with this Monday? And then do Tuesday?’ Personally I...
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Can a game change management? The French connection
JULY 22, 2024
The French, they sure are a funny lot. They like to do things their own way. Heck, they even use a different word for computer just to annoy the rest of the world. At the same time they know how to...
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Management is –NOT– about managing people!
JULY 22, 2024
By now you probably know my friend Tuomas Syrjänen and how they dealt with organizational change at his company Futurice. Elected ‘A Great Place to Work 2012’, but as you could read in these blog...
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Navigating organizational change – a model
JULY 19, 2024
Over a decade ago, I was one of three people working in an early stage startup. This company was the first to create a mobile content creation and delivery platform for wireless carriers in Canada....
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Participatory decision making – how to make decisions with the whole company
JULY 19, 2024
It’s an important topic in a lot of companies: Who gets to decide what? Democratic decision-making sounds like an interesting plan, and it is. But only as long as the company stays small, it often...
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Leadership: How To Bring Out The Best In People
JULY 19, 2024
Getting the best out of your people isn’t always easy. And for many managers (as well as workers) tips are always welcome. So when I read Victor Lipman’s article 5 Simple Ways To Bring Out The Best...
