When direction is lacking in work life – and why it is rarely about skills
When direction in working life becomes unclear, it is rarely about competencies.
Read what is often behind it – and how you can create clarity.
Hjort & Frøik’s blog
On Hjort & Frøik’s blog, we share professional perspectives, experiences and reflections on leadership, organisation and working life in a time characterised by complexity and change.
The articles are based on our work in and with organisations and revolve around the conditions that people and leadership work under in practice. The focus is not on quick solutions, but on insight, nuances and understanding – which can strengthen judgment, reflection and action in organisations over time.
The blog is a place for professional immersion and reflection. Here we examine the connections between strategy, culture, structure and human conditions – and share perspectives that can provide new insights into familiar challenges.
Three Professional Entrances
The blog is organised into three professional areas. You can immerse yourself in one theme – or read all articles together.
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Leadership, Culture and Organisational Development
Perspectives on leadership, culture and change from the inside – with a focus on meaning, learning and anchoring in practice. -
Working Life, Well-being and Psychosocial Working Environment
Reflections on working life conditions, well-being and mental health in organisations – with an eye to both people and task solving. -
Organisation, Roles and Talent
Professional perspectives on organisation, roles and talent – and how structure and competencies can support strategic direction and development.
All Posts
Below you will find all blog posts – across themes and categories.
When something no longer feels right – why don’t we still talk about it?
What do you do when something no longer feels right in your working life – but is difficult to explain?
A reflection on the psychosocial working life and leadership in the unresolved.
The organisational space – where leadership shapes business
Strategies are not realised in documents, but in the organisational space, where relationships, responsibility and collaboration shape the organisation’s practice. The article reflects on how leadership creates the conditions that turn strategy into action.
The Empty Chair – about taking a place in your own leadership
Drawing on our work with leaders, the article explores the importance of deciding one’s own position before strategic decisions are implemented in the organisation. The article links inner clarity with strategic impact and shows how implementation begins with leadership positioning.
The Inner Leadership Space – Reflections from Conversations in the Free Leadership Space
Based on conversations in The Free Leadership Space, the article examines the inner leadership space – where values, reality perception and judgment are shaped before strategic decisions become visible. The article links reflection and inner clarification to leadership impact and points out how sustainable decisions and organisational movement begin with coherence within the leader themselves.
Working Life in Change
The article is based on a fundamental understanding of working life as a dynamic and changing dimension. In working with working life, well-being and the psychological work environment, we help organisations create frameworks that support meaning, mental health and sustainable work communities – with an eye to both human conditions and organisational requirements.
Why Business Development Always Starts with Leadership
Business and leadership development is not just about structures and strategies, but about how leadership unfolds in practice.
In the article “Why Business Development Always Starts with Leadership” we elaborate on our perspective on the connection between business, leadership and human conditions – and why sustainable development requires more than plans and decisions.
Recruitment in a Changing Working Life – When Strategic Organisation and Talent Are Aligned.
The article is grounded in our understanding of recruitment as a strategic choice that can rarely stand alone. Through our work with strategic organisation and talent, we help organisations create coherence between strategy, structure, and people – so that recruitment, onboarding, and organisational design support both short-term results and long-term sustainability.
Leading From Within – When Attention Becomes Leadership Strength
Authentic leadership starts from within – with attention, contact and the ability to stand clearly within oneself.
In this article, Susanne Hjort examines how leaders can create more sustainable leadership in practice through awareness of their own layers, attention and patterns of action. Drawing on the Gestalt tradition and organisational experience, human insight is linked to the demands of business and the organisation.
The Courage To Lead Is About You as a Leader
The free leadership space does not start within the framework of the organization – it starts within the leader himself.
This article focuses on courage, authenticity and personal leadership development as the foundation for being able to lead with clarity and integrity. A reflection on how the leadership space grows from the inside out – and why it is crucial in modern leadership.
Leadership in a New Reality:
When Mental Health Meets Technological Transformation
Leadership in a New Reality: When Mental Health Meets Technological Transformation As mental health meets technological transformation, leadership becomes crucial to balancing efficiency and humanity. This article explores how AI, culture, and mental health are interconnected – and why well-being is a strategic leadership task. AI and new technology are not just changing systems –…
Mergers and Partnerships – when strategy must become culture and results
Mergers and Partnerships – When Strategy Must Become Culture and Results Mergers and partnerships create both opportunities and complexity. The article shows how strategy only becomes results when business, organisation and people are thought together – and how leadership is crucial to creating common direction and cultural integration. We see it often: Mergers and strategic…
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