Monthly Archives: February 2009

February 27, 2009
Communication

Complete work of fiction?

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Storytelling is an old oral tradition and it is the core of cultural heritage. The past is a precondition for the present – there is no present, without a past. I find it reasonable to say that companies can express themselves in the present by focusing on their traditions.The other day I talked w ...
Anthropology and Culture

Facebook during business hours

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Facebook during business hours – should companies try to fight or embrace it as part of today’s communication and working form? The phenomenon of employees using the phone or the Internet during business hours for private matters is by any means not new. A study made by “IT-avisen ComON” ...
StagisLife

My music week

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I just had a great music week. Last Friday we had a nice company dinner where everybody shared music. Monday Nikolaj brought us a new amplifier (even though he was the only one who could hear the old one was broken 🙂 Yesterday Nikolaj and I browsed us through a lot of different old and […] ...
February 24, 2009
Jobs, StagisLife

We’re searching for a Communication consultant

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I've just posted a job on our website. We're looking for a communication consultant with experience from the field of corporate public realtions and journalism. For now it's a six months vacancy working on several projects. We've posted it as 20 hours a week but it could be more R ...
February 19, 2009
Creativity and Leadership

The 10.000 hour rule & more

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I finally got the chance to finish Malcolm Gladwells book 'Outliers' from 2008. I must admit that I didn't read hi's other books 'Blink' and 'Tipping Point', but I knew about him and my expectations was quit high. And I really did enjoy Outliers. The theories in the b ...
February 12, 2009
Anthropology and Culture

Talk and listen

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Last week I was doing interviews for one of our customers, to gather information for further evaluation of different authentic strengths and values. The interviews were split into two parts; the first part was an open narrative conservation, and in the second part the informants were ask ...
February 7, 2009
Creativity and Leadership, Design and Identity

Authenticity model taking off in times of crisis

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I just received a very nice email yesterday that made me very happy. A participant at one of the talks I did in the fall described how important it is to keep focus in these times of crisis and that my authenticity model was inspiring him. "…i disse tider med krise er det meget godt [&hel ...
February 6, 2009
Anthropology and Culture, Authenticity Book, Design and Identity

Value creation at the corporate museums

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I spend most of the day with Marco Montemaggi, vicepresident of Museimpresa, the association of corporate museums of Italy. Companies like Ferrari, Ducati, Piaggio, Alessi and more than 40 others all have museums celebrating the culture and heritage of the company. Marco was one of the main forces b ...
Authenticity Book

A meeting with the Ducati talebans, visiting Minoli in Bologna

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I’ve just gotten home from a wonderful day working on my book on organizational authenticity. I spend the last bit of the afternoon and the evening with Federico Minoli, former CEO of Ducati motorcycles since 1996. The last few hours going through books, pictures, drawings, videos and other memora ...
February 5, 2009
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)

Eco-websites?

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Within the recent couple of weeks a discussion about CO2 emissions from IT service providers has attained considerable media coverage. It is said that two searches on Google use the same amount of energy as boiling a kettle of water. This is worth giving an extra thought the next time you google at ...
Design and Identity

Designing design identity

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  At the moment we are finishing the last parts of our new visual identity. Next week our site is finally going online in the English version (stagis.com), and we are ready to produce our new stationary.  While I was working on our business cards I j ...
February 4, 2009
Branding, Design and Identity

Article in Protocol on corporate authenticity

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  We are launching an english version of our corporate website next week and as I was looking through some articles for the site I just stumbled on an article recently published in Protocol – a Danish leadership magazine. See it on their website here. ...