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C53. BOOK: Jens Andersen, The LEGO Story: How a Little Toy Sparked the World’s Imagination (Mariner, 2022), p. 352.

Lisbeth Valther Pallesen took part in those original debates, and put her finger on the core problem. “We need to reassess how we measure skills. Women are more aware of the process: is it good enough, and are people enthusiastic about what they’re promising? Men think about results: did we achieve our goal and stick to deadlines? These masculine values are most conspicuous because it’s easiest to measure hard facts, but we need to measure both at the company.”

It would be over ten years, however, before the LEGO Group really shook up the company’s patriarchal foundation.

The LEGO Group struggled to create a more diverse workplace in the 2000s.