A GREAT LEADER

Roselinde Torres, Boston Consulting Groups resident expert on leadership, outlines three simple, but crucial questions we as leaders need to ask ourselves.

To stand out and make impact through modern leadership practices and performance criteria is more important than ever. How do we take our brands and organizations leaps forward? How do we shape the future and not only react to it?

If we are still using traditional leadership practices and outdated performance criterias we may be supported by false positives. Lets make sure we are on the right track!

Roselinde Torres takes us through 3 critical questions in the below 9 minutes great video:

1. Where are you looking to anticipate change?
2. What is the diversity measure of your network?
3. Are you courageous enough to abandon the past?

Hope this makes you THINK, and we love if you share your reflections with us here!

THE MODERN CEO

I just found this interesting article by BCG discussing new trends in CEO appointments and succession plans.

Take a look at this checklist of the profile of the modern CEO and see how you are doing. You and your board should really think about how you create the CEO appointment succession list in order to take your company one step further ahead of competition, and the article gives some great examples of this.

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Good reading, and I would love your point of view too!

HOW DO YOU ENGAGE YOURSELF AND YOUR COMPANY TO MOVE CLOSER TO YOUR CUSTOMERS AND EMPLOYEES?

I just published my first article on LinkedIn, read it here.

Hope it makes you THINK. And I would love if you LIKE, comment with your own thoughts and share with your own network.

Thank you – and I wish you a wonderful weekend!

Inger

OM Å SETTE FOTAVTRYKK OG LEVE SIN STRATEGI

Hvordan setter du ditt fotavtrykk? Bilde er funnet på web

Hvordan setter du ditt fotavtrykk? Bildet er funnet på web

På veien fra late sommerdager er tiden nå perfekt for å revidere din virksomhets strategiske kjerne, lidenskap og gjennomføringsevne.

Aller først. Hva er egentlig strategi?

Det finnes mange definisjoner på strategi. Denne av Johnson and Scholes synes jeg er bra:

“Strategy is the direction and scope of an organisation over the long-term: which achieves advantage for the organisation through its configuration of resources within a challenging environment, to meet the needs of markets and to fulfill stakeholder expectations”.

Strategi krever at man tar valg om en usikker fremtid. Man må være kreativ nok til å se for seg muligheter som kanskje eller kanskje ikke eksisterer. Og man må velge noe bort.

Husk at operasjonell effektivitet ikke en strategi. Det er nødvendig, men ikke tilstrekkelig. Michael Porter minner oss så fint på faren ved å glemme riktig balanse:

”…Companies have properly invested energy in becoming leaner and more nimble. In many industries, however, what some call hypercompetition is a self-inflicted wound, not the inevitable outcome of a changing paradigm of competition… And bit by bit, almost imperceptibly, management tools have taken the place of strategy. As managers push to improve on all fronts, they move farther away from viable competitive positions…”

Å LEVE SIN STRATEGI HANDLER OM GOD LEDELSE

Kristin Skogen Lunds 5-15-80 oppskrift på god ledelse har fått mye oppmerksomhet: 5 prosent handler om strategi, 15 prosent om posisjon og 80 prosent handler om den daglige gjennomføringsevnen.

Hvordan de menneskelige “systemene” jobber sammen er “hemmeligheten” som er vanskelig for konkurrentene å kopiere.

Tenk over hvordan det indre livet i din virksomhet fungerer og hvordan dette spiller med eksterne omgivelser og kundene.

I en virksomhet jeg jobbet i tidligere var den uttalte “hemmeligheten” at bare vi klarte å gå bort fra silotenkning og samle oss på tvers av forretningsområdene mot kunden så ville vi vinne. Men det var lettere sagt enn gjort. Det handlet om personkjemi, endrings- og risikovilje og ikke minst insentiver.

Ledelsen må leve “hemmeligheten” for å lykkes!

TA DEG TID TIL “TIME-OUTS” FOR Å REVIDERE DEN STRATEGISKE KJERNE OG GJENNOMFØRINGSEVNEN

Jeg samarbeider blant annet med ledere i en spennende oppstartsvirksomhet. Så langt har den hatt positiv progresjon ved å utvikle og teste forretningskonseptet direkte mot kundene og markedet. De har fått svar og tilbakeldinger, men innser at de kanskje ikke har anvendt nok tid til å analysere resultatene og implikasjonene for strategisk retning. Altså tid for å ta seg en “time-out”!

Hvordan er det for din virksomhet? Tid for å revidere den strategiske kjerne, lidenskapen og gjennomføringsevnen?

Her er noen spørsmål å starte med:

– Hva er dagens ståsted? Hvordan setter vi fotavtrykk?

– Er vår visjon og forretningside bærekraftig og tilstrekkelig differensiert?

– Hva særpreger oss i markedet – hvorfor skal kunder og samarbeidspartnere velge oss? Gjennomsyres vår strategiske plattform i alt vi gjør?

– Hvem selger vi til – og hva selger vi?

– Hva særpreger oss og vår arbeidsform? Har vi en sunn friksjon oss i mellom eller er vi for snille (et “echo chamber”) – eller kanskje for slemme – mot hverandre? Er vi rigget for å oppnå resultater i fellesskap?

– Hva er våre ambisjoner og lidenskap? Langsiktig mål (3 – 5 år) og viktigste strategiske initiativ i år

– Hvordan kan vi forbedre vår gjennomføringsevne?

Hvis du liker dette, gleder det stort om du deler videre!

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Utgangspunktet fra denne artikkelen ble publisert slik på Hegnar Online 4.8.14.

 

Your IQ may be substantially reduced when under tough stress. Spend the Easter break to recharge

I am sure all of us have experienced moments when we are not able to respond properly to employees and colleagues due to 100 other thoughts and high stress levels. Or you have experienced intelligent colleagues and bosses responding surprisingly dumb in conversations you initiate. The Norwegian journalist in Dagens Næringsliv, Eva Grinde, has a well written article about the theme, read it here. She is referring to “Overloaded Circuits” article in Harvard Business Review: “In survival mode , the manager is robbed of his flexibility, his sense of humor, his ability to deal with the unknown. He desperately wants to kill the metaphorical tiger”.

Easter vacation is approaching and we can all get a break to recharge and plan how to be smarter in communication with our teams. Wish you all a good Easter! I will be on the track in this picture 🙂

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WHAT IS INNOVATION?

In my discussions with Business Leaders, I often ask how they work with innovation and new developments to come closer to their customers. Many of the companies that are struggling in particular do not have much time for such activities. In my point of view they should TAKE the time, because they need it the most. Original, innovative thinking is exactly what could bring the company to the nice, positive numbers.

I found this great video on what Innovation is. Take a look and reflect on how you can improve your own thinking and actions.

PROUD TO BE A PARTNER IN THE CONSULTING COMPANY OF THE YEAR – CONSIDIUM CONSULTING GROUP!

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So excited to join the winning team in Considium Consulting Group!
Photo: Lillian Andersen

I am happy to join the Consulting Company of the year 2013 – Considium Consulting Group – as a Partner in September.

The successful company established in 1985 has 18 Management Business Consultants with comprehensive leadership experience from the industry. Considium’s uniqueness comes with the simple, straightforward methods to accelerate execution of strategy through new knowledge, positive energy and common goal focus. The work is done in close collaboration with the client’s CEO and the Leadership teams. Considium’s assistance to the big transformation in a leading Norwegian company led to the Consulting Company of the year 2013 title. The CEO of Considium, Siri Fürst, is among The most powerful women in Norwegian Business.

I am really looking forward to working with this winning team to expand Considium’s market footprint even more.

HOW DO YOU ENGAGE YOURSELF AND YOUR COMPANY TO MOVE CLOSER TO YOUR CUSTOMERS AND EMPLOYEES?

The world is changing fast. How do you transform to create the competitive edge?

The world is changing fast. How do you transform to create the competitive edge?

Through discussions I have had with leaders, I feel that there is a true interest for embracing Social Media and Analytics to move to a more personalized, energized and relevant dialogue with the customers and employees. However, the leaders like guidance and advice on how.

Outperforming companies and CEOs are;

– building their ANALYTICAL MUSCLE to respond with relevance and immediacy. They realize they must engage customers as individuals, and that means knowing them as a whole human being — with interests, attitudes, and life circumstances that color preferences and needs. The time of one way mass communication is soon over..

– not afraid to be present in SOCIAL MEDIA themselves. They have started to involve themselves so that they learn by doing and to experience the ocean of new communication- and development opportunities. They are role models and “Walk the Talk”. The time of “hiding” in the Executive office is soon over..

– facilitating an OPEN and COLLABORATIVE CULTURE. They are implementing new and more efficient ways to drive value and innovations across the organization. They energize and move closer to their employees every day. Information sharing and collaboration is the key to success. The time of “closed” and one way of doing business- and value creation is soon over..

When opening up, you are not inviting to chaos, however you are evolving into a new form – one better suited to the complexity and pace of business today. Can you afford to wait?

I hope you like this, and I would love if you share with your network and give your point of view!

Take a look at this link to the same article on LinkedIn that is including interesting comments / dialogues.

Inger A. Myklebust is a Business Management Consultant. She is specializing in leadership, market and business development, program and project management. Inger has leadership experience from IBM (11 years), PwC Consulting (5 years) and Orkla (4 years) among others. Connect with her here at LinkedIn, at TwitterFacebook or here at WordPress.