Done in 2017
Today is the first blank page of a 365 page book. Write a good one! This year I decided not to do any new year’s resolutions nor set any numeric result based goals. As I am usually doing that, I decided to shake things up a bit and just stick to some of guidelines for... Read More
10 holiday dinner-table conversation starters
Holiday season is full on. As the end of the year draws closer we gather with colleagues, partners, friends and family to celebrate Christmas and the coming of the New Year full of hope. Two things happen throughout the holiday season – lots of long lunches and dinners with conversations and also self-analysis on what... Read More
Anita Krohn Traaseth: Want to change things, be ready to be ridiculed
The only constant thing in life is change. We can decide to ignore it, accept it, we can fight it. It doesn’t really matter. Change will happen anyway. It is the direction it takes and how you can make things better, stop things from going worse and make use of the change, that is different... Read More
Career in the age of mobile apps
For a long time, the focus in career planning has been on the model of a “career ladder” and climbing it. The model considers that your career is like climbing up a ladder with the aim to reach the final step – to the top. It makes a notion that if you do not succeed... Read More
10 military strategy rules to use in your company
Before heading to the the strategy rules, I have to quote Tim Ferriss “Life is not a problem that you have to solve, nor a game that you have to win.” – Carl von Clausewitz I don’t believe that planning a career, creating an organizational strategy or other kind of goal setting means abandoning all... Read More