Adults Can Have Fun with LEGOs Too

Gary Cokins
Gary Cokins|January 20, 2008

My international tours giving seminars on Performance Management for SAS customers take me to unusual places. When I visited the executive team of LEGO, the toy manufacturer, at their world headquarters in Billund, Denmark, the company was recovering from some financial issues that were challenging management to look for new [...]

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Green or Greedy? Environmental Performance Management.

Gary Cokins
Gary Cokins|October 18, 2007

I am not a tree-hugger type of environmental activist. I am more of an “eyes straight ahead” business type. I try to influence organizations to improve performance through integrating methodologies that apply measurements, price and cost information, dashboard feedback alert systems and the like. But still, there is a part [...]

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Disciplined Denmark Does the Performance Management Deed

Gary Cokins
Gary Cokins|October 4, 2007

Have you ever been to Copenhagen? I recently presented at a business conference there. It wasn’t the abundance of bicycle traffic, not even the three-wheel carts carrying children that caught my attention. It’s the discipline. Danish cyclists, as well as pedestrians, patiently wait at traffic lights along with automobiles. Their [...]

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