by Florin Lungu | Apr 17, 2026 | The Flabby Middle
When I was working in engine development at Renault, I watched five teams ruin a perfectly good engine. Each team had a legitimate goal. The performance team wanted maximum acceleration. The emissions team needed to limit that acceleration to meet pollution standards....
by Florin Lungu | Apr 16, 2026 | The Flabby Middle
My first week at Volvo, nobody told me what to do. I don’t mean they forgot. I mean the onboarding was: “Just follow this guy, Lars, and do what he does.” That was it. No brief. No structure. No explanation of what the role actually required. Lars...
by Florin Lungu | Mar 30, 2026 | The Flabby Middle
I’ve been coaching leaders in Sweden and Denmark for over a decade. In that time I’ve sat in hundreds of rooms where executives described what was broken in their organization. And then I’ve sat with the middle managers who were expected to fix it....
by Florin Lungu | Jan 9, 2026 | Employee Engagement, Foundational Leadership, Leadership Strategies
Happy New Year! Many leaders tell me the same thing. “My team is smart, capable, experienced… but they don’t take initiative.” They wait for instructions. They wait for permission. They wait while problems stay unresolved. And eventually, the...
by Florin Lungu | Dec 27, 2025 | Leadership Development, Personal Growth, Self-leadership
Personal Note I’ve been thinking about 2026 for a while now, and one question keeps resurfacing for me. It came up earlier this year at Live2Lead Sweden, when John Maxwell shared something deceptively simple. He said that most leaders spend their time asking,...
