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Thoughts on leadership, strategy, transformation, and navigating a world with AI.
Which AI Personality makes You most Productive?
An MIT study suggests that personality matching between humans and AI can influence the quality of collaboration. If that holds, AI becomes not just a tool, but something leaders need to factor into team design and composition.
Is AI quietly bringing Agile back?
When I look at the companies that seem to be learning fastest with AI, I do not see a waterfall mindset winning. I see many of the underlying principles that made Agile valuable in the first place.
Reflections on AI: Good Decisions Still Depend on Context
I’m currently studying Deploying AI for Strategic Impact at MIT, and one of the modules has made me reflect on something that feels very familiar. AI may improve access to answers, but it does not remove an old leadership challenge: making good deci...
Why IT Systems Fail When They Ignore Human Behavior
Many large IT initiatives fail for a remarkably simple reason: they do not fit how people actually behave. Over the years, I have seen ambitious systems with strong business cases, solid architecture, and executive backing quietly die after launch....
Why AI Strategy Is Ultimately a Leadership Problem
Before generative AI entered the mainstream, I led transformations across several insurance companies where automation of the claims process was a central element. What became clear early on was not a limitation of technology, but a leadership realit...
I Love Receiving Feedback!
Let’s be honest – most people don’t enjoy receiving feedback. Many of us feel like the person in the picture when the boss asks if we’d like feedback… We know we should say yes, all while our internal alarm system is screaming at us to brace for impa...
Empowering a New Generation: Insights from my Conversation with Maria Anker Andersen
This post is here because some topics are simply too important to keep to one language. My recent conversation with Maria Anker Andersen on the Leadership in Motion (Ledelse i bevægelse) podcast explored diversity, inclusion, and purpose in leadershi...
The Cult of Agility: How Blind Transformations has Lead Organizations Astray
Disclaimer:This post might ruffle some feathers, but the conversation is raging, and I want to share my perspective on it. As a long-time advocate for Agile, it's disheartening to see Agile getting a bad rap for reasons that entirely miss the po...
How to Determine the Pathways in Your Organization?
When Walt Disney envisioned Disneyland, he waited to observe where visitors naturally walked before laying down sidewalks, allowing natural behaviors to dictate design. This approach, mirrored by Michigan State University (main image), emphasizes ada...
Cultivating Effective Communication
In the ever-evolving complex landscape of modern leadership, the importance of effective communication cannot be overstated. It was therefore no surprise that effective communication was one of five themes ChatGPT identified when I tasked it with ana...