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Are you cheap?

What if low price does not go with high salary? What if the only ones who really benefit from the constant bargain hunt are big sharks that have the resources to hunt where it’s even cheaper? What if todays fantastic SALE means your kids will be unemployed tomorrow? What if anger over growing inequality and [...]

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You never get what you gonna know

In Sweden we have a saying; You know what you have, not what you will get. The strange thing is that we use this to emphasize the importance of keeping instead of moving forward. A Forrest Gump-version would go like this: ”Life is like a box of chocolate. Never try a piece you haven’t tasted [...]

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Are you worth waiting for?

(Post written in Swedish for Säljaren) Have you ever queued to buy something? I don’t mean Systembolaget-the-day-before-Midsummer-kinda-queue, I mean the kind where you bring a sleeping bag. Think of Justin Bieber or a new iPhone. That kind of queue. Demand is greater than supply so performance requirements are on the buyers side, a phenomenon so rare [...]

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Stay Creative

Source: behance.net via Joachim on Pinterest Google+

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[Video Swe] The best way to predict the future is to invent it

This is my Keynote from Webbdagarna Gothenburg, a swedish internet conference. It’s about the speed of change, and the complex problems our globalized economy is creating for our way of life. And it’s about five trends, or rather generation shift’s, I believe will help us solve these problems. If you don’t understand swedish, and want [...]

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Beat Yourself

I quit my job six months ago and since then I don’t have a business card. To be honest I don’t have anything to print on one. Of course I do have a phone and mail but you know; no corporate logo, no impressive title, no ”us” or ”our”… I’m just me. This, I noticed [...]

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[Video] Föreläsning Marknadsföringens Dag 2012

(in Swedish) Full length seminar recorded at Marknadsföringens Dag in Gothenburg 2012 Google+

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What will 2012 be like?

(post was written for Talarforum in Swedish) Euro crisis, stock crisis, job crisis, climate crisis … It’s easy to feel concerned when thinking about the future so let me remind you that change is something positive. Change is a sign of life and crisis usually make way for new, fresh life that clears out the old. [...]

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Do we know how to jump like a frog?

You know the boiling frog story; If you put a frog in boiling water, it will struggle to jump out. But if you put the frog in cold water that is slowly heated, it will not perceive the danger and be cooked to death. Swedish historian Peter Englund wrote about the collapse of the Roman empire [...]

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