Jørgen Vig Knudstorp (CEO LEGO Group) says about this book: First of all
I want to thank you Martin, because you took the time and energy and
used your intellect to write this book; a book which you asked me to
write a few comments about. Seldom have I to such a degree identified
myself with the storyline of a non-fictional book and seldom during my
recent readings have I thought - "this, this is me" or "this is exactly
how I felt and reacted" - rightly or wrongly, for good or for bad. Just
as often I thought - "but that's exactly what I do but it's not
working", or "God, my team and my management are really "deteriorating"
or "maintaining" instead of "developing". Just as often I thought "but
that step 2 with the self-esteem based characteristics, that's what
others have made fun of and said I did wrong", even though it felt
right. This is definitely the way forward in future management instead
of hanging on to and being stuck in the past. The main message for me
has been the importance of emotional and relational management of teams
and the organisation alongside the rational and contextual. The central
point being how the relational is just as much a discipline and
experience that is hard to learn properly in line with the professional
and contextual. The book maps out my next ten years as a leader and
makes it evident that a gut feeling is actually an ability of its own. I
find that there is so much material here and so much more to think
about. This book is just the beginning of much more insight. I've gone
back and looked in my notes where I've written: "Christ, this is really
amazing, it's just so me to be me. I'm best when I'm just me. The better
I become, the more I'm just me and the other way round." In an article
in the daily Børsen about myself, the title "This Kierkegaardian
self-acknowledgement" was used. So I would like to say thank you so VERY
much. This book has done me an enormous favour and will be one for many
more leaders. Jørgen Vig Knud
