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Leadership
How ego gets in the way of strong leadership?
That the body and mind are programmed for primarily vertical movement and thinking, what does that mean? Well, that we...
Leadership
Hybrid co-leadership
In the post-corona era, there is a lot of talk about the hybrid workplace. How to deal with new expectations from employees to...
Leadership
Leading from a distance - leadership with "extra everything"!
Leading at a distance is about how you as a leader meet each person and your group. How can you as a...
Organisational development
Organisational culture and leadership. The ability to recognise the importance of small nuances.
There are many ways to destroy a good organisational culture. It can be corrupted by arrogance and hubris. It can be torn down...
Corporate social responsibility is a key strategic issue
In recent times, we have observed how active and genuine social responsibility is becoming an increasingly important part of today's...
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Fredrik Wahlberg
Three steps to a successful corporate culture
For a business to survive and thrive, it needs to be able to deal with unexpected changes. To flourish and...
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Lisa Arnborg
Healthy workplace - balance between relationship and performance
When companies are described as 'prosperous', people often think that the company is performing well, making money and generating returns. When the workplace...
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Corporate social responsibility is a key strategic issue
In recent times, we have observed how active and genuine social responsibility is becoming an increasingly important part of today's...
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Lisa Arnborg
Leading from a distance - leadership with "extra everything"!
Leading at a distance is about how you as a leader meet each person and your group. How can you as a...
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Lisa Arnborg
The digital workplace - where everyone leads
The most important leadership in our workplaces is everyone's leadership, everyone's ability to create job satisfaction and performance, both for themselves and...
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Managing for performance
As a leader, you often have high expectations and demands. You must be able to deliver fantastic results in your...
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Hybrid co-leadership
In the post-corona era, there is a lot of talk about the hybrid workplace. How to deal with new expectations from employees to...
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Fredrik Wahlberg
New times and new leadership
"We need to rethink leadership. Instead of isolating leadership to the manager, to the individual, we need to let go of...
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Cecilia Alwin
The importance of co-leadership
In my work as a consultant in various organisations - private and public - I often come into contact with the problem of...
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Lisa Arnborg
Walk like a leader
So, you're shut away in your office, in conference calls, in meetings, racing around with an urgent look on your...
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Lisa Arnborg
Study; Only 1% of leaders are both performance and relationship focused
A study by the Management Research Group (MRG) of 60,000 leaders over a 10-year period shows that the ability to...
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Cecilia Alwin
Leading 'above the line'
The future of leadership is not about building "horizontal" skills - i.e., the abilities, skills and behaviours needed to lead....
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Let people perform
That Sweden's municipalities are facing a major challenge when it comes to delivering the welfare of the future is...
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Cecilia Alwin
Co-leadership and leadership: Forget about leadership and focus on management!
"Firstly, we need to look at the role of managers and employees and partly redefine them and agree on their responsibilities,"...
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Lisa Arnborg
How ego gets in the way of strong leadership?
That the body and mind are programmed for primarily vertical movement and thinking, what does that mean? Well, that we...
Read more
Corporate social responsibility is a key strategic issue
In recent times, we have observed how active and genuine social responsibility is becoming an increasingly important part of today's...
Read more
Managing for performance
As a leader, you often have high expectations and demands. You must be able to deliver fantastic results in your...
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Fredrik Wahlberg
Corporate culture - today's key competitive advantage in the battle for talent
We are in the midst of a paradigm shift where the corporate cultures of the past are no longer applicable to today's problems. As...
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Juan Pablo Ortiz
The value of yes and the price of no
"Ultimately saying "yes" is the foundation of all relationships. What is flirting but a way of saying, "Yes, I see...
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How appreciation changes the world
Did you know that 80% of the total amount of appreciation a person receives in their lifetime is received before four...
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Fredrik Wahlberg
Why Sweden's municipalities need a cultural strategy
There is currently an extensive reorganisation of governance and management in Swedish municipalities. Roughly speaking, it is a counter-movement...
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Juan Pablo Ortiz
The magic (or curse) of ongoing conversations
A few years ago while reading one of Ken Blanchard's blogs I came across a simple sentence that became a...
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Lisa Arnborg
What is organisational culture?
The concept of organisational culture is derived from anthropology, which studies the conditions and determining factors for structure, order and hierarchies in...
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Stop blaming culture, take responsibility for your strategic cultural development.
"Culture eats strategy for breakfast". I (and probably many others) have often heard this expression in management rooms, sometimes as a...
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Let people perform
That Sweden's municipalities are facing a major challenge when it comes to delivering the welfare of the future is...
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Fredrik Wahlberg
Organisational culture and leadership. The ability to recognise the importance of small nuances.
There are many ways to destroy a good organisational culture. It can be corrupted by arrogance and hubris. It can be torn down...
Read more
Lisa Arnborg
Organisational culture makes a promise of organisational performance
"Culture is not in support of strategy, culture is the strategy in great organisations."
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Cecilia Alwin
Co-leadership and leadership: Forget about leadership and focus on management!
"Firstly, we need to look at the role of managers and employees and partly redefine them and agree on their responsibilities,"...
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Lisa Arnborg
Healthy workplace - balance between relationship and performance
When companies are described as 'prosperous', people often think that the company is performing well, making money and generating returns. When the workplace...
Read more
Managing for performance
As a leader, you often have high expectations and demands. You must be able to deliver fantastic results in your...
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Juan Pablo Ortiz
Two valuable lessons from 11-year old online gamers
Today my 11-year old son gave me a good reason (again!) to reflect on what lies at the core of...
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Lisa Arnborg
Summary from the ISPI Conference part 1
What happens when people from different countries, industries and business' meet in a conversation on future and performance?
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Lisa Arnborg
4 people x 4 totally different Industries = WOW
Last week, the blog was mainly about ISPI (International Society for Performance Improvement) conference and the keynote speaker Lisa Lindström,...
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Lisa Arnborg
Rome in the rain, happy eyes and feeding the amygdala with security.
We were in Rome a few weeks ago. The rain was pouring down and in the middle of the crowds waiting for the guided...
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Let people perform
That Sweden's municipalities are facing a major challenge when it comes to delivering the welfare of the future is...
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Lisa Arnborg
What do you practise at work? In life?
They say that if you want to be good at something, it takes 10,000 hours of practice. If that's true...
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Fredrik Grafström
Cultural trip at Göteborg Energi
With the help of YesP, Göteborg Energi has developed its organisational culture with great results. HR Director Arto Pikäniemi describes the journey here....
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Lisa Arnborg
The digital workplace - where everyone leads
The most important leadership in our workplaces is everyone's leadership, everyone's ability to create job satisfaction and performance, both for themselves and...
Read more
Juan Pablo Ortiz
Two valuable lessons from 11-year old online gamers
Today my 11-year old son gave me a good reason (again!) to reflect on what lies at the core of...
Read more
How appreciation changes the world
Did you know that 80% of the total amount of appreciation a person receives in their lifetime is received before four...
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On the power of good relations
It's an ordinary Tuesday morning and I'm on my way to interview two people who I'm curious about...
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Fredrik Wahlberg
Three steps to a successful corporate culture
For a business to survive and thrive, it needs to be able to deal with unexpected changes. To flourish and...
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