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The world would have been a worse place with a balanced Steve Jobs

A War of Leadership – Vertical versus Horizontal Organizing

With great interest and concern, I have witnessed the protest movements in Tunisia, Egypt and the rest of the Middle East during the last month.
For the average Tunisian and Egyptian, the first and last though during the day for too long has probably been related to the pain they experienced with the way their [...]

The Intelligent Eye – The Art of Leadership When Facing Challenges

Over the last years, we at Fram have occasionally used art as a way to provoke managers to think in new ways about important business challenges.

Balancing different forces when dealing with complex challenges

Link to Speak by Adam Kahane on youtube

What we stand for

Achievements in matters that matter
Fram is devoted to the art and science of moving important and complex matters forward.
We support and guide leaders and their organisations towards important and remarkable achievements in situations where the terrain is less charted. This may involve the journey of taking the company to the next level of performance, finding [...]

Prosperity without growth

I’m late into the game. Late into the game of understanding the fundamentals behind economics.
During my four years of master level studies in economics and business administration, we never really dealt with the ecological fundamentals underpinning the economy. And I didn’t realise back then that they were missing.
I started to wake up to these fundamentals [...]

Too much of a challenge – keeping track of mental health

At Fram, we support leaders and group of leaders in mastering complex challenges. Challenges that often are at the frontier, that is not being part of the normal running of the business or the organisation.
These kind of challenges put extra demands on the mental condition of the leader. These extra demands often mean that the [...]

Sparking corporate change with metaphors

I recently interviewed each top manager of a company about their macro and business environment as part of their strategy process. I was using the PESTEL-framework (Political, Economic, Social, Technological, Environmental and Legal Factors) as a basis for most questions, but I also folded in the following question:
“Describe your company’s capabilities by means of and [...]

The Wisdom of Crowds

The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nations, published in 2004, is a book written by James Surowiecki about the aggregation of information in groups, resulting in decisions that are often better than could have been made by any single member [...]