Last year, I had the privilege of co-coaching my youngest daughter’s soccer team. I joined two young coaches and a team manager; together, we were responsible for coaching about 20 girls aged six to eight. In this post, I will share eight leadership lessons I learned that can be applied to leading both eight-year-olds and more seasoned “players”....
In 2020, 50% of the global workforce will be millennials (people born approximately between 1982 and 2004). The millennial generation is one of the largest and best educated in history, and employees around the globe are therefore trying to understand how to attract the top millennial talents and make them stay. According to a survey of 4,364 graduates...
One of the two teams now qualified for the World Cup final on Sunday in Rio de Janeiro, is not unexpectedly Germany. Since they were embarrassingly knocked out during the group stages at the European Championship in 2000, after two losses and one draw, they have only once placed outside the medals in the following...
In Denmark, we have some funny traditions. Take wedding anniversaries as an example. We celebrate 12 ½, 25, and 50 years, not that most marriages last that long these days. In all three cases, family, friends, and neighbors build an arch around the front door of the couple’s house the night before the anniversary. In...
Recently I listed to a business show on the radio and they had an almost eleven minutes long interview with a CEO of a public listed IT company. What struck me the most was, that by the end of what was quite a long interview, I still had no idea WHY the company existed, other...
The title of this post is an old Japanese proverb. Today we often call this leadership style servant-leadership and in my opinion, it still reflects the essence of great leadership. Leadership is not to be confused with management and not every Manager can become a leader, but every leader must possess good management knowledge and...
For many people, including me, it was a big deal turning 40. Entering the second half of my life made me stop and think about what motivates me. Boiled down I think my professional motivation can be summed up as a combination of three factors – challenges, inspiration and freedom. I think the same factors...
In a recent study done by the Danish National Research Centre for the Working Environment among 14,940 Danish employees including 712 in Management positions, they found that Managers are considerable happier with their work than employees without management responsibilities. The study concludes that 83% of the managers feel they get a large degree of joy...
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