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Thoughts on leadership, strategy, transformation, and navigating a world with AI.
Scrum Guide Expansion Pack 2025 – my first impressions
Where the 2020 guide was held to a minimum, the new pack stretches across roles, artefacts, events, theory, scaling, AI and an appendix on adaptive strategy. It’s declared community-driven, meaning updates will be released much like software patches - small, frequent, and based on real-world feedback.
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...
Delegation: Create clarity and freedom with CROW
Delegation is a core discipline for leaders, but also one of the most challenging. Many leaders fall into the trap of “drive-by delegation”, rushing to hand over a task without clarifying the frame around it. It may feel efficient in the moment, but it often results in the leader having to spend time later cleaning up misunderstandings and mistakes. That is both frustrating and time-consuming for both parties.
Case: How to balance structure and freedom?
Over the past two years, I have worked with an organisation that wanted to find a better balance between freedom and structure in its agile ways of working. The challenge was to create a framework that ensured cross-organisational coherence without suffocating team autonomy.
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...
Insights from HBR's 2023 Daily Management Tips with ChatGPT
On workdays, I get an email from Harvard Business Review with their Management Tip of the Day. As we embark on a new year, I got curious to see what we can learn from the approximately 250 tips I received in 2023. To help me with the analysis, I exp...
The Irony of Scaling Agile from a Teal Perspective
A friend recently pointed me to a [very insightful 2018 post](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/un-safe-any-speed-rethinking-scale-agility-sam-mcafee/) by [Sam McAfee](https://www.linkedin.com/in/smcafee/) where he critically examines the trend of scali...