I understand that Mondays can be a dread. And you might think that the weekend is a far far away place that seems impossible to reach. I am going to provide you with a day to day guide on how to make your week more fun and interesting. Start by looking in the mirror in the morning and decide that this week is going to be great!

Email is a written medium, and you use it every single day. Words you write can not display emotions easily and what you feel might not come across to those who read it. The medium is fast and you can easily write in anger or frustration. As a manger I am often included with a CC or a BCC to an email, but way to often not until someone feels hurt. In 98 % of all conflicts made by email there are misunderstandings making it harder to work together. So what can we do to improve teamwork and prevent email …

I love reading other blogs, and I do love it when I find a blog that I manage to spend some time at. I do actively seek out blogs I have never read before, as there is a lot of good stuff I do not know about out there. I suggest that you also try to spend an evening trying to find yourself a new blog now and then. Well I have collected some new posts that I want to share with you today. Ok, I have one of these blogs in my RSS reader from before, but four out …

Once again the customer dance with the personnel at the daily ball of arguing, bargaining and haggling trying to get to an agreement once again. The frustration is enormous and the customer and the company representative are miles away from each other almost trying to produce an intergalactic conversation in their own language. A solution seems impossible and the employee feels frustrated of the customer not recognizing great customer care if it is thrown at him. The customer on the other planet it frustrated by the pebbles he is offered and feels that he is treated unfairly.

I have spent the last few days reading a lot of blogs, and I want to share some of my recently discovered gems. There are an unknown numbers of blogs out there, and I discover new great blogs all the time. I have selected five blog posts that I really enjoyed reading this week; they are all “fresh” and recently posted by their authors. Today I want to share what I have found with you.

During the past 15-20 years I have met a lot of managers and leaders that just do their job day in and day out. I always ask myself; why do they not practice to become an even better leader? I read books, I read a lot of blogs, I write down things I have done good, and things I have not done good to find out what could I have done differently. I will never become good enough, and that is GREAT. This is a field that I always can improve on. Sometimes I feel alone, what do other people …