In everyday life at work, I love to use examples from the soccer world to make my points. I love the division system and the rankings; I love it when a team during a few years gets promoted twice or more. Comparing with soccer is what I do when I want to let my co-workers [...]

The mood indicator bar, if such exists, drops to the floor once in a while. Everybody seems tired and sad. Such phenomenon does happen in almost all work places from time to time. If one person is feeling down one day, he can drag the whole office down the blues. When this happens it happens [...]

I am a rookie in the game of leadership; I have had leading positions before, but not in the current scale of leading a whole department of totally 25 people. I have at most been leading five people before. I am not an educated leader, but unlike president Schwarzenegger’s quote in the fiction of the [...]

No, I am not going to challenge an old rock band. I find management easy when the times are tough, when there is a challenge around every corner, and stuff we do can become better. The good times on the other hand puzzle me over and over again. Is good times great times? I define [...]

The phone starts ringing at eight in the morning every day. When someone arrives 15 minutes too late, that is 3 missed calls, and if more than one arrives late, we have a problem. As long as I have worked anywhere, there have always been people arriving late, why? I have punctuality as a high [...]

I talk a lot about motivation at my office. Motivation and what tick all of us off is a topic I find very interesting. When talking about motivation, I always talk about money, “I want to”, looking at the big picture, values and so on. I have read a lot about motivation and agree with [...]

I came across this cool look at what a leader does, at the Organic Leadership Blog. Great Leaders Produce HOPE. Helping Others Perform Extraordinarily Take a look at the post here I liked it, thought it was cool. I always like it when people play with words. But what I really liked was the comment [...]