July 2, 2010
Design and Identity

Leadership with drive

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During the past few weeks I have worked on an identity project for a small management consultacy firm. Heliotrop is offering team and organizational development from the perspective of the mid-level m ...
Authenticity Book, Talks and events

August Event on Authentic Identity with Noma Case Study

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On August 26 we are hosting an event for the members of Danish Design Association, primarily professional design agencies. I will give a talk on organizational authenticity and Peter Kreiner, CEO of Noma restaurant, will join us and give a brief talk on the success of Noma from a business perspect ...
June 30, 2010
StagisLife

Stay connected

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To enhance our ways of interacting with all the smart and interesting people around us, we have decided that it is time to shut down our current Stagis Facebook Group and build a brand new Stagis Facebook Page instead. All our Facebook activities will be moved to the Stagis Page, and we would love f ...
May 3, 2010
Communication, Design and Identity

I love the poster for this year’s Jazz Festival in Copenhagen

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 For the first time the artist is a photographer, and there is to variations. Artist: Søren Solkær Starbird. Copenhagen Jazz Festival  ...
May 2, 2010
Anthropology and Culture, Branding, Communication

Large effect from small strategic efforts

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90 percent of the bus drivers in Greater Copenhagen declare that “I thrive at my work place” (“Jeg trives godt på arbejdspladsen”) in a recent questionnaire given to 200 bus drivers and managers in the bus industry. The questionnaire was handed out as one of three types of ...
April 26, 2010
Creativity and Leadership

Authentic Noma Restaurant is now the World’s No. 1

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Today, restaurant Noma was announced the World’s number one restaurant. Tonight chef René Redzepi is being celebrated in London. Last year I was interviewing René a couple of times for the boo ...
April 22, 2010
Anthropology and Culture, Communication, Creativity and Leadership

Gør virksomhedens kommunikation autentisk

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DE FLESTE VIRKSOMHEDER VIL GERNE DIFFERENTIERE SIG MED ET UNIKT BRAND. MEN DE FÆRRESTE FORSTÅR AT KOMMUNIKERE UD FRA DERES AUTENTISKE IDENTITET FORDI DE BASALT SET IKKE KENDER DERES KULTUR OG AUTENTISKE STYRKER. KOMMUNIKATIONSRÅDGIVERE ER NØDT TIL AT VÆRE LANGT MERE OPTAGEDE AF KULTUREN I DE OR ...
April 20, 2010
Anthropology and Culture, StagisLife

Visiting the National Workshops for Arts and Crafts

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April 19, 2010
Design and Identity

New website for the Corporate Governance Agency

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During the Fall of 2009 we developed a new identity for the Corporate Governance Agency of the Danish Ministry of Culture. Part of this project was to develop the IA and design a new website. During late 2009 and early 2010 the site has been technically implemented and now it’s finally launche ...
April 12, 2010
Anthropology and Culture

The power of context

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I red an article in the Australian jounal ‘Open Manifesto’, written by a design professor who used to live in Denmark. The article is about one of the things he enjoyed in denmark – our well designed post boxes!? Well, apparently postboxes in New Zeland is long, narrow and the ...
Anthropology and Culture

Michael Bierut talking about clients

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2010/01 Michael Bierut from CreativeMornings on Vimeo. ...
April 3, 2010
Talks and events

The Authentic Company and the product brands – lecture in Sydney

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About two weeks ago, I gave a lecture on Authentic Organizational Identity at University of Technology in Sydney as I was invited to join a series of lectures called Future Design Strategies. Martin Kornberger (who’s just published a wonderful book on branding called “brand society” ...
March 1, 2010
Design and Identity

Less and more

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The design ethos of Dieter Rams. The German industrial designer, closely associated with the consumer electronics manufacturer Braun, where he was lead designer 1955-1995. I recently visited London Designmuseum and the exhibition of Rams' landmark designs for Braun and furniture manufacturer Vit ...
Branding, Communication

Are you ever to cool for school?

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 …no you are not! Not even after many years of experience as a leader on the job market. There are always new ways of thinking about management and new perspectives on leadership. At the moment we are working on a project for Copenhagen Business School’s master program Master of Management Dev ...
February 28, 2010
Authenticity Book, Talks and events

Risky management: Seeing something new about your company – lecture at CBS

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“Actually, I saw something new about my organization, that I didn’t see before,” said one of the participants at the end of a lecture I did at Copenhagen Business School a few days ago. She was a senior manager in a large organization and I was asking wether the model we had worked ...
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