While Linda and I were in Copenhagen a couple weeks ago, we did a number of press interviews for the release of the Danish translation of Beyond Change Management: How to Achieve Breakthrough Results through Conscious Change Leadership. This video interview for Børsen, Denmark’s largest and most well respected business publication, was really fun to do. The […]
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