Mette Herlitz | Karin Tenelius

Silent migration – two perspectives

November 24, 2016November 24, 2016 by Mette Herlitz

Mette Herlitz

What is happening out there? That is the name of a new popular seminar from Tuff, which is about the strong winds blowing now and about the change to a less hierarchical corporate culture that any organisations face now. A side effect, is a silent migration which happens under the radar,…

Brave enough to lead business without managers

November 24, 2016November 24, 2016 by Mette Herlitz

Mette Herlitz

(From Mick´s leadership blog) Leadership in corporations is traditionally thought of as the responsibility of CEOs to push managers to drive profit for shareholder satisfaction. As sustainable practices become increasingly commonplace in the private sector, employee wellbeing, change management, self-selection, and design thinking among other topics take center stage. Karin…

Stop motivating your employees!

May 3, 2016 by Mette Herlitz

Mette Herlitz

Stop motivating your employees! by Lisa Gill Tips from Sweden on how to be a high performing team in the 21st century Last month I spent two weeks in Sweden (and a couple of days in Amsterdam) with Karin Tenelius and Carl Erik Herlitz, founders of Tuff Leadership Training, a company…

Make it work- in teams

March 29, 2016November 24, 2016 by Mette Herlitz

Mette Herlitz

The fact that The Econimists´ columnist Schumpeter writes about ”the team-trend” in the corporate world, shows how strong this movement is. Evaluating weather teamwork is efficient by the experience of teamwork in traditional organisations as Deloitte, as Leigh Thompson does in the article, is a mistake though. The big effect…

Creating an empowering environment – a great success!

January 26, 2016January 26, 2016 by Mette Herlitz

Mette Herlitz

Last week I had the privilege to meet and have a conversation with Jos de Blok at his office in the Netherlands. Having worked with self-organised teams myself for many years, I am in awe of what Jos has achieved. More than 9000 employees and still expanding! Although I know that this way of…

The spirit of Motesbokarna

January 24, 2016February 2, 2016 by Mette Herlitz

Mette Herlitz

I am at the office of Mötesbokarna in Dalecarlia, north of Stockholm. This call center is transformed from a very old fashioned and with a strong top down management culture when we took over some years ago. Now it is run by a team that co-operates and are in charge…

Meeting up in Finland

January 14, 2016February 2, 2016 by Mette Herlitz

Mette Herlitz

A beautiful winter day in Helsinki, with 14 below outside. I have the pleasure to meet with Riina Hellström who shares the ideas and values around employee driven organsiations. Although we met for the first time, I experienced being connected by sharing experiences and mind set. She confirms the impression…

Walking down Memory Lane

December 28, 2015February 2, 2016 by Mette Herlitz

Mette Herlitz

I use the time between Christmas and New Years Eve to start to write down the stories about the companies we made employee driven. Freys Hotel, Komanco, Excosoft and the others. It is hard to travel back in time and remember 1999 when I started work with Freys Hotel. Luckily…