There were quite a few of you that wrote to me and ask me to translate my debate article in Dagens Nyheter (Daily News) one of Swedens largest daily newspapers. Obviously, the article is written of a Swedish public but I am afraid the problems I highlight are equally challenging in many other countries. The...Read More
The following link goes to a debate article I had in DN Debatt. The debate page in one of Sweden’s largest daily papers. Unfortunately, for those who don’t speak Swedish you wont understand it. Maybe I will get around to translating it for you. http://www.dn.se/arkiv/debatt/manga-som-leder-foretag-haller-inte-mattet-i-krisen/Read More
I just spent an afternoon leading a workshop with one of the most interesting companies I have been involved with in a very long time. The company is called QlikTech (http://www.qlikview.com/) and if you haven´t heard of them yet , you will and the sooner the better for your own sake. QlikTech impressed me for...Read More
I. Remember that change is inevitable. II. Change is in itself neither good nor bad! Some changes affect us positively, some negatively and some not at all. III. There are primarily three types of change:a. Those changes we initiate ourselvesb. Those changes we did not initiate but over which we have great influencec. Those changes...Read More
Machiavelli argued that the end justifies the means, but what if there is no end and in the end the means is all there is? Then the means would have to justify the means and that would put an end to Machiavelli.Read More
Be wary of truth-sayers (even the one writing this). Although we are constantly in search of truth, the truth is that any real deep meaningful truth that may exist is likely beyond our capacity of comprehension. Anything we may believe to be true is highly subjective. Therefore we must be vigilant. We should never fall...Read More
Behaviour in all organisations is steered by a system of formal and/or informal rules and values. In the event that a conflict arises between a rule and a value we should always opt in favor of the value. Rules are made to help us, when they don’t help us we can ignore them!Read More
