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Your management team – boost its performance
How does boosting management team performance by 20 – 25 per cent with just 18 minutes of reflection sound to you? These appealing...
Michael Soderling
Jan 21, 20213 min read
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What is a CEO’s most important task?
After asking me this question, it felt like my supervisor stared me out and my pulse quickened. It was 2008 immediately after graduation,...
Michael Soderling
Dec 10, 20203 min read
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Your management team – make it operative
Do you know who is a member of your management team? Are you sure? Let’s continue digging out the gold nuggets from the article ‘ What...
Michael Soderling
Dec 3, 20203 min read
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Do not let change management tie you up in knots
– It will cost millions and you will have to deal with the aftermath for years to come. This ominous prophecy of mine came up in a...
Michael Soderling
Nov 19, 20203 min read
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Mysterious forces at play in management teams
At some point in your working life you have probably attended a team-meeting where you gritted your teeth and wondered what on earth was...
Michael Soderling
Oct 29, 20203 min read
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Change process and worst-case scenarios
– I can’t stop thinking… do I still have a job? We can only imagine how much courage she needed to summon up in order to be able to put...
Michael Soderling
Oct 22, 20203 min read
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Management team fireworks
Understanding why team members sometimes find it hard to access their cleverness. There are two overarching processes that take place...
Michael Soderling
Oct 14, 20203 min read
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Management Teams: Low-Hanging Fruit
Only 21 percent of managers believe their organisations have the competence to design cross-functional teams. This research finding can...
Michael Soderling
Oct 6, 20203 min read
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Patterns in 60 management teams
”You really are a pain sometimes.” ”Why, thank you kind sir”, I replied, thinking the CEO’s remark meant that I had done my job. I had,...
Michael Soderling
Sep 28, 20202 min read
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Management teams and horror stories
Today I am going to discuss how the history of a team can impair its functioning. As demonstrated in the following two real-life...
Michael Soderling
Sep 9, 20203 min read
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Managing virtual team dynamics
“We have a hard time generating energy in our virtual meetings.” This statement came up in a coaching session I was holding and it...
Michael Soderling
Sep 2, 20203 min read
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Organisational development and toilet paper
Ever wondered why individuals, teams, and perhaps the entire organisation once in a while behave in a way that none of the people...
Michael Soderling
Aug 25, 20203 min read
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The smart way to reach goals
Imagine you are sitting on a motorcycle and revving the engine while applying the brakes on the front wheel. The rear wheel keeps...
Michael Soderling
Aug 12, 20203 min read
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