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C59. BOOK: Jens Andersen, The LEGO Story: How a Little Toy Sparked the World’s Imagination (Mariner, 2022), p. 165.

GKC introduced a special forum he called “Worth Knowing.” These evening events, which explored issues related to work, the company, and the LEGO System in Play, were aimed at staff at a certain level of seniority, who were expected to attend lectures, film screenings, and other forms of educational content once a month. The purpose was also to reinforce a sense of cohesion and make LEGO’s growing cohort of middle-managers even better at motivating their teams. As GKC said, if you wanted to create something of quality, you needed motivated employees who understood the demands being made of them. “In a modern organization, it is not enough to hand out orders; the person who receives the orders must understand why they are given, and why they must be carried out in a particular way.”

GKC established learning sessions for leadership called "Worth Knowing", which explored a range of topics.