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Articles on leadership, teams and change
Articles written by Mads Cronquist from practical experience of leadership in operations, HR, business development and crisis work. No theory without application.
Method3H – Head, Hands and Heart: From Learning to Lasting Behaviour ChangeHow reflection, practical training and emotional engagement are combined and practised over time, so that learning becomes new everyday behaviour.MethodShared High Team Standards (SHTS)How teams turn trust and ambition into concrete behaviour, mutual accountability and a stronger High Performance Pattern.MethodLeaderShopA holistic model that connects leadership, management, customer value and business – from people to measurable impact.2018Digitalisation and leadershipDigitalisation helps both organisations and people. But what competencies must the leadership readiness of the future be able to muster? Lessons from 30 years of systems, HR and operations.18 August 2014Leadership retreat or immersion?A retreat is essentially a withdrawal, and it rarely creates progress. Leaders need immersion and concrete training for their future leadership.2012Personal middle managementLeadership is personal, and everything good starts with middle managers. On character ethics, power in professional bureaucracies and why development always starts with the leader.14 February 2013Leading changeManagement creates order under complex conditions. Leadership handles change and disorder. The difference explains why so many changes stall.19 February 2013Personal, leadership and organisational blind spotsOn belief systems and hidden commitments: why we hold on to assumptions that protect us from change — and how to get help seeing your blind spots.2019When strategy meets Monday morningFine strategies are worth nothing without organisational execution capability behind them. On why execution fails, and what management must concretely change for plans to become action.2019Action learning in leadership developmentLeaders do not learn leadership by hearing about it. On action learning, changing learning arenas, a buddy system and coaching between modules — and why it shifts behaviour in daily operations.
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