Jan Höglund's Blog

Category: Workplaces

  • Craftsmanship and meaning making

    “Meaning is created through a craft approach to life.” — Alan Moore Here is the story about the transformation of Gränsfors Bruk into an innovative, sustainable, and lightweight company. It’s a story of transforming a company from a mass production-style manufacturer, to a small scale, high quality shop with skilled, dedicated, and engaged co-workers. It’s…

  • How will companies approach the management challenge?

    Here is a visionary tweet by Kenneth Mikkelsen on how companies in the future will approach the management challenge. The businesses will: Have a higher purpose beyond making profit Hire people who are passionate about this higher purpose See all stakeholders as equally important Cultivate long-term relationships with suppliers Have open doors and be transparent…

  • Book Review: Labcraft

    Labcraft: How innovation labs cultivate change through experimentation and collaboration is a book which illustrates ways in which labs cultivate change through experimentation and collaboration. The labs themselves are part of an emerging family of hybrid organizations which create dialogue, cross-pollinate perspectives, and create space for new things to emerge. The book was co-authored by…

  • Beliefs influence results

    Peggy Holman writes in Open Space Technology: A User’s NON-Guide, pp. 48—50, that different methods can work in a given situation but what matters most are the beliefs of the facilitator. “My belief (and I don’t have sufficient empirical evidence for it to be more than an opinion) is that while method may be one…

  • Creating workplaces where people thrive

    Gregg Kendrick shares his experiences on creating workplaces where people thrive in this video. The video is from the 4-day conference “Making Collaboration Real: Empowering the Workplace with Nonviolent Communication” in San Francisco, March 2011.

  • The end of hierarchy

    Here is a conversation between Gary Hamel and Terri Kelly, president and CEO of W.L. Gore, on Gore’s long-running experiment in natural leadership and managing without managers. Very interesting and fascinating!

  • Turn the ship around

    David Marquet is the submarine captain who turned the ship around by treating his entire crew as leaders, not followers. He vowed never to give an order. This is an example on how to release the passion, initiative, and intellect of everyone on the team. The submarine crew continued to do well long after his…

  • Open Workplaces

    Here is a #HRockstars IGNITE session on transforming global workplaces to open workplaces with Johann Gauthier, Suzanne Daigle, Josh Allan Dykstra, Derek Wade, Kevin O’Brien and Linda Stevenson. These persons are dedicated, being relentless in changing the way we work, not separating life and work anymore. Very inspiring!

  • Lasse Ramquist & Mats Eriksson

    Lasse Ramquist & Mats Eriksson har skrivit böckerna Manöverbarhet och Integral Management (på engelska), som båda handlar om hur man i en verksamhet skapar strategisk fokusering och engagemang på livets villkor. Detta är viktigt eftersom produktivt kunskapsarbete kräver att vi organiserar arbetet på ett människovänligt sätt.