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the professional aspects. Mr. Svein taught me that you could learn more about an employee by visiting them in their home and becoming a part of their family for a day than by having him or her take a number of personality tests. Svein made a virtue of inviting his employees to his house in Nice, where we could cook together and have a good time, and we could even take our respective partners. These occasions brought us, the management team, together much more efficiently than any fancy courses I have attended could.
4. My clever mentor Flemming Ă˜stergaard (former chairman of Parken Sport & Entertainment A/S) once said that if you want to get the temperature of an organization, you need to start in the restrooms (the ones used by the employees). There you will see how the employees get along with each other. If they do not use the toilet brush, if there are empty toilet rolls on the floor, or if the toilet is dirty, etc., then you can make the conclusion that they do not have enough energy to think of others. So if you want to get to know an organization before becoming their employee or partner, I recommend that you visit their toilets and do the “toilet roll test.â€?
And remember, there are no perfect organizations. Out of a thousand companies I have worked with since 2007, I have yet to meet one where everything is under control. One could say that most of them exist in spite of . . .
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