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It’s better to learn than be smart

The first October eTips went out last week. Subscribers received it 13 October. And it's already been posted in blogs elsewhere. Here's the beginning of the featured article with a link at the end to read the rest of it…
It's better to learn than be smart
Last week in Stockholm I presented a Responsible Leadership [...]

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Back in the USA!

I'm in Washington DC now for the Agile2007 conference all this week. I'm presenting tomorrow (Monday) and Thursday, supporting a couple of ongoing research projects all week long, and attending a board meeting Friday and Saturday before flying home.
I'm sure there will be plenty of reunions, dinners, lunches, and a beer or two with old [...]

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“Happy Birthday” in Three Languages

Thursday night I was the guest of Anders Risling and Lärke Johns for dinner in their home in Stockholm. Anders wrote the first book in the world on knowledge management— öretagetKunskapsf, ("The Knowhow Company" co-authered with Karl-Erik Sveiby, 1986. Awarded Best Management [...]

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High Performance in Swedish

Today I was teaching Responsibility Redefined to a wonderful group of consultants at the premier Swedish consulting firm Provins Fem. I mentioned

"effective" versus "efficient" and one of the consultants stopped me for a quick language check—as they had done all week when I used language they did not understand (such as "hold my feet [...]

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Sweden fast facts

I learned that Swedish professionals wear eye masks in order to sleep past 3AM or 4AM when the sun rises.
Most good hotels have black-out curtains.
The sun has a way of getting around the black-out curtains in my hotel room.
Did I tell you that most Swedes take at least 5 weeks (in a row) of summer [...]

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