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Duo management in practice: How Hvidovre Municipality strengthens cooperation

In Hvidovre, the elderly and the cultural and leisure sectors have cultivated collaboration through concrete, short-term initiatives on volunteerism and communities for older citizens together with the municipality's association actors, e.g. the Senior-friendly City

Inspiration for Local Tripartite: Co-creation Success Depends on Seven Governance Factors

Targeted management of local co-creation is the way to green transition, write researchers from the project GOGREEN, who, on the basis of case studies in 28 countries, identify seven structural factors

Can 2025 make democracy alive again?

There are many opportunities to raise voting percentages, but it takes effort. That we dare to rethink the way municipalities and regions support elections in Denmark

More changes are needed than the municipal enterprise can create

Everyone owns the climate challenge. However, we see a need for ownership in general to be strengthened and for all elected officials to dare to embark on bold priorities

The cooperation in Storkøbing Municipality is cracking. It can and must be improved

Much local politics is about cooperation and common sense, but local politicians are democratically elected to disagree, and local politics is therefore, quite legitimately, also about conflict and diversity.

Track & Fan: New and Promising Actions Using Spur Evaluation

It is a good idea to track and fan what works in the public sector. Then others can learn from it and get inspiration for new thinking. But we need to be as confident as possible that what we have found is having a positive effect.

Politikerforum: Christiansborg should have trust representatives to ensure proper working conditions for politicians

There are plenty of wild problems that call for political leadership, where politicians set a clear direction and point out good and creative solutions. But how do we ensure our elected politicians burn through without burning out

Dear employee: Get involved in the strategy work

Employees play a crucial and central role in strategy work at work. Their active participation and commitment is essential to ensure that the strategy not only remains on the management board, but becomes a common concern.

It's not about following up -- it's about following along!

The daily routines and urgent tasks of the operation in many places span the legs for follow-up to development measures. This means that the expected value creation is not reaped. There is always more energy at the beginning than at the end

Can we act towards greener attitudes?

Smukfest has shown the way in 2022 and is now expanding to the festival in 2023. Between tent pegs and empty cans, we can find thought and inspiration for climate action.

Are you a wild leader?

All organizations are perfectly equipped to create the results that they create today. But if we are to find solutions for tomorrow, we must therefore take a different approach.

Do you, as a top manager, stand in the way of the strategy being realized?

The Pygmalion effect or Rosenthal effect describes the psychological phenomenon that the greater the belief and positive expectations one has of a person, the better they function — the opposite is also true!

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