It is hard to predict the future. Someone once said that the Internet was a fad. Amazon hit the road a year after a futurist claimed that online shopping was irrelevant. There is room for failure when trying to predict the future. However, I dare to paint the contour lines of the future, based on the impressions I got last week at the World Economic Forum Davos 2022 summit. Obviously, the topics calling for an […]
(First published on LinkedIN in October 2021) People tend to feel comfortable with what is obvious. It has a scent of fact. It seems definite, clear, uniform. Especially when we ask for an advice in critical times, we tend to absorb the message of what we should do. Maybe our heading could be defined of (1) our blisters, (2) our passion, and (3) accepting that being a successful leader does not mean that you have […]
“It seems as if working for the Fast-Moving Consumer Goods industry has become more respected after COVID. The World has seen the importance of supply chain excellence. Of keeping the wheels running, providing governments, businesses, and consumers with necessities. This has become a present purpose for this industry. I think we all have felt it on ourselves”. The words come from Nadja Minde, Senior Consultant at Mangaard & Partners – Executive Search. Having worked within this […]
Most Europeans have the chance to work freely without any significant kind of post-pandemic restrictions. Unfortunately, we learned at last week’s gathering in the Panorama community that some continents are facing restrictions again, solely working from home. As always, it was a pleasure, full of inspiration, and fun, meeting our colleagues world-wide from 50 offices across all regions, counting nearly 400 professionals within executive search and strategy consultancy. Despite being an industry by some people […]
Mangaard & Partners had the privilege of being the facilitator at a talk show at the Danish Branded Goods Association’s 50-year Anniversary on March 8, 2018, in Tivoli Hotel & Congress Center in Copenhagen. The talk show with Mats Jansson (Chairman of the Supervisory Board at AHOLD DELHAIZE) and Chris Van Steenbergen (Chief Human Resource Officer and Executive Team Member at HEINEKEN) was very engaging and Karen-Helene Hjorth (TV2 News anchor) managed to interview Mats […]