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Tag Archives: SwedenThe 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… … Continue reading I’m home from Washington DC and off again to San Francisco. I completed Missions 28, 29, & 30 for 2007 while in Washington DC, and will complete Mission 31 in San Francisco this week. I decided this year to begin … Continue reading 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 … Continue reading 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 … Continue reading
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Tagged Anders Risling, birthday, Knowledge Team Leadership, Provins Fem, Sweden
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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 … Continue reading I learned that Swedish professionals wear eye masks in order to sleep past 3 AM or 4 AM when the sun rises. Most good hotels have black-out curtains. The sun has a way of getting around the black-out curtains in … Continue reading A group in the Swedish Knowledge Team Leadership training chose to demonstrate their learning by forming a team that in just a few hours designed, gained Chinese approval for, and launched a plan for a Swedish fund to sponsor surgeries … Continue reading I just finished teaching Knowledge Team Leadership to a very appreciative audience from Stockholm and Gothenburg. Here’s a picture of the class doing a final flip chart review—an exercise where student becomes teacher and reviews all of the material from … Continue reading
Posted in Collaboration, Consulting, Responsibility, Teamwork
Tagged Knowledge Team Leadership, Provins Fem, Sweden
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I am in the countryside outside of Stockholm at a beautiful conference facility teaching Knowledge Team Leadership. I’ve discovered two important things about the Swedish people. First, like the Hispanic people with whom I work in Mexico, Swedes do not … Continue reading
Posted in Accountability, Musings, Responsibility
Tagged Knowledge Team Leadership, Sweden
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We just arranged a private Knowledge Team Leadership seminar in Stockholm for August 6-10 time frame and could be available the week before (July 30-August 3) for other presentations in Europe. We’ll be contacting colleagues in Europe who have asked … Continue reading |