Lars Kolind
| Lars Kolind | |
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| Born | 5 May 1947 |
| Nationality | Danish |
| Education | Cand.scient. |
| Alma mater | Aarhus University |
| Website |
www larskolind |
Lars Kolind (born 5 May 1947) is a Danish businessman. Kolind holds an M.Sc. in Mathematics from Aarhus University from 1972 and a B.Comm. from the Copenhagen Business School from 1977. He is adjunct professor of leadership and strategy at Aarhus University Business School (Aarhus School of Business) since 2000.
Kolind was executive vice president of Risø National Laboratory from 1981 to 1984 and Chief operating officer of Radiometer (company) from 1984 to 1988. For ten years (1988–1998), Kolind served as Group CEO for William Demant Holding A/S, which owns hearing aid manufacturer Oticon. Kolind carried through a financial turnaround of Oticon 1988–90, and in 1991 Kolind changed the company by designing and implementing the so-called "Spaghetti Organization", which has been featured as one of the first knowledge-based, almost paperless organisations in the world. Kolind left William Demant Holding in 1998. Kolind's work in Oticon has been featured in articles and books including Tom Peters' Liberation Management and Per Thygesen Poulsen's Think the Unthinkable (in Danish: Tænk det Utænkelige), both in 1993. Upon Kolind's departure from Oticon, professor Mette Morsing from the Copenhagen Business School co-edited the book Managing the Unmanagable for a Decade (with Kristian Eiberg) in 1998, which also discusses Kolind's works.
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