Entries Tagged as 'Leadership'

How many people can you be close to?

November 3rd, 2011 · 2 Comments · Leadership

A while ago I read an interesting book by Robin Dunbar in which he postulates a maximum number of people with whom one can maintain a stable relationship. Dunbar’s number put’s that figure at around 150. According to Dunbar human beings are physiologically limited to this amount of relationships, no matter if we are talking […]

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How to make teams really work

October 25th, 2011 · No Comments · Leadership

I recently delivered a leadership programme in Stockholm in which we had people from fourteen different countries. Almost all of them had to manage what we call “Remote Teams” in which the members are spread all over the globe. We did an activity that required the participants to analyse deeply what really worked for them […]

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How to work across cultures

October 17th, 2011 · 2 Comments · Culture, Leadership

I recently worked in Singapore making it the 20th country in which I have delivered Leadership development programmes. But you don’t have to go to another country in order to manage cultural differences for in some of the courses for Electrolux that we have delivered in Stockholm, we have groups of 24 participants that were […]

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