Canoe Trip on Koitajoki River    

Canoe Trip on Koitajoki River    

As the darkness of autumn approaches, I occasionally find myself reminiscing about the canoe trip I took with a friend last summer. There was abundant sunshine, blue skies, and warmth on our trip. Here, I like to shed some of this sunshine and warmth with a few...
Why so difficult to implement a company’s strategy?

Why so difficult to implement a company’s strategy?

The “distance” between an individual employee’s daily work and the company’s strategy is often long. In my view, both still reflect the same thing within the company, like the two sides of a coin. If these two sides, these two different...
Could I become a company board director?

Could I become a company board director?

In senior management positions, you are often requested to have previous experience of a similar level/type of positions, so also at the board level. Still, everyone comes to a board position in their turn for the first time, and then there will certainly be plenty of...
Leadership vs leadership styles

Leadership vs leadership styles

No one’s leadership philosophy is set in stone. For me, leadership, or the leadership style, always starts with the person himself. A person’s values, personality, goals, work experience, perspective, etc., lay the foundation for their personal leadership...
The makings of a good leader

The makings of a good leader

Perhaps some have been given a better genetic capacity to develop into good leaders, but this is no guarantee that they will become good leaders or will ever want to become “leaders” of anything. As a child, we want to become police officers, astronauts,...

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