June 1, 2008
Creativity and Leadership

Malcolm Gladwell and what you can learn from spaghetti sauce

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One of my favourite writers is Malcolm Gladwell. The last book of his that I read was ‘Blink’ which is about snap judgements and first impressions, the decisions we make in split-seconds b ...
May 24, 2008
Communication

Jagten på ægtheden – hunt for the real

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  Today the Danish daily Information brings an article on the need for authenticity by Lasse Lavrsen. He called me a few days ago when I was visiting Alberto Alessi in Crusinallo di Omegna to learn more about Alessi as I’m writing about the company and their corporate museum in my book. L ...
May 22, 2008
Authenticity Book, Design and Identity

Visiting Alberto Alessi and a life of design heritage

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Display of all items in the current catalogue of Alessi products, centrally placed in the Alessi headquarters. Entering Alberto Alessis office is like visiting a strange fusion of a writers refuge, the laboratory of an inventor and a living room full of the rich memories of a lifetime. The walls are ...
May 9, 2008
Branding, Communication

Succesful brands are driven by authenticity

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This week Nikolaj Stagis wrote a contributing article to Market, a danish magazine focusing on the topics branding, communication and marketing. This particular issue has its focus on corporate identity. Nikolaj contributed with an article on how succesfull brands are driven by authenticity, and how ...
StagisLife

My new best friend

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My incredibly nice and cool and big and new iMac! Everything about it is nice, and the keyboard is extra nice compared to the old white plastic-like mac keyboards. It’s hard not to enjoy working with this friend in front of me;-) ...
April 24, 2008
Other

Is Dubai authentic?

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Working with authenticity at STAGIS and with a fascination of the citystate Dubai, I would like to share my perspective of these two interests in a combination. For me it is natural to talk about Duba ...
April 22, 2008
Design and Identity

Femmøller, Breaking the beats

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Femmøller Efterskole is a danish boarding school located at Djursland near Århus. Stagis is helpig Femmøller develop their new identity, wich I have written a bit about elsewhere on this blog. The branding idea for Femmøller is about breaking beats. Referring to Femmøllers main subjects theater ...
April 7, 2008
Communication

Research on blog-users

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Two students – Trine and Line – from CBS are conducting a survey on the use of corporate blogs. They are trying to get a better idea of how weblogs can be used by companies and what the motives of consumers are when they use blogs. I’ve promised to help them get some answers. Follo ...
April 4, 2008
Design and Identity

Jazz Festival poster by Kasper Eistrup

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This Wednesday this year’s Copenhagen Jazz Festival poster was released. It’s designed by the danish musician Kasper Eistrup! Just wanna post the poster cause I always look forward see the poster of the year. I’m not sure if I think its a bit odd or quit nice… I know the pers ...
March 29, 2008
Creativity and Leadership

The leader as coach – releasing potential or intimidation?

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Maria just blogged about a coaching-experience here and here which inspired me to think yet again about the paradox of managers taking on the role as coaches. Coaching has been called an intimate technology (“intimteknologi”) of management. Intimate in that it is one-to-one, and has the ...
March 28, 2008
StagisLife

Socratic dialogue

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After I posted my last blog about being coached by Nikolaj Stagis, I’ve come to that idea that the experience reminds me of the Socratic dialogue, which is about getting the answers and solution ...
March 26, 2008
StagisLife

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StagisLife

A good day, looking for talent

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We’re looking for talent. We need a production manager, a person who wants to be in charge of the overall production planning and budgetting of our ongoing projects as well as coordinating a number of freelancers, suppliers and production companies that are involved in the execution of our pro ...
March 19, 2008
StagisLife

The coaching experience!

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< The experience was the opposite of what this picture symbolises! As a more or less new employee here at STAGIS, I had a brand new experience personally and professionally the other day at work. I had a coaching-session with Mr. Nikolaj Stagis as part of a normal staff development interview. The se ...
Anthropology and Culture

What is Stagis most valuable skills?

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Last weekend the Stagis team spent a Saturday afternoon at the office dedicated to improve our individual presentation of Stagis. The frame for the afternoon was to practise and discuss different ways of presenting and accentuate Stagis services and characteristics in relation to specific cases. We ...
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