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Norwegians face death penalty
Referring to my post about the Norwegian pair in Congo, they got their death penalty today. They had to be convicted before international press noticed the news and now it seems to be everywhere. CNN, BBC and Al-Jazeera. Pretty well visited as well accordning to Norwegian papers. Good!
By the way I still miss aftenposten.no/english and [...]
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Recently there was a case in Norway (the first in our country that I know) where profiled Norwegian blogger Vampus tweeted “cleaned out my desk and ready for new challenges”. She was just internally reorganized in her company, and most certainly did not quit – at least not by communicating to her boss via Twitter.
The [...]
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Tags: enterprise collaboration, management, Social media
In this blog post I criticize journalists for being to tabloid and immediate referendums thrown at the people for contributing to stupidity. Here goes.
According to the biggest newspaper in Norway there was a Norwegian girl who first reacted to the new terms from Facebook and eventually gathered enough support to get them changed. This time [...]
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Today I read the latest Norwegian issue of Computerworld (nr 5 2009, pg 6), and to my great pleasure I found an article from our Senior Gartner columnist about the “war” between the IT Organization wanting to standardize and the vast amount of different quick win business applications that the business side want to use [...]
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Defining a collaborative culture
I have earlier blogged on social media and changing the culture. As social media is often about new forms of online collaboration, I now add collaboration (not as in collaborationism, but as in collaboration at work) as such to that mix. Every project manager ought to know that to create a culture for collaboration is [...]
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Tags: collaboration, Social media
Happy new year and all that. I hope you got to charge the batteries for 2009.
In the meantime, i just want to know one thing. We are more connected than ever before. You have more channels than ever to reach out to other people, including letting your cellphone forward to your voicemail. And yet, people [...]
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Update II on the Viking law
So it appears the presentation at First Tuesday was an extract from the one Tandberg use internally. They actually hand it out to foreigners and they report, it helps them understand how Norwegians think.
Here is the complete version from Annicken, remarkably like the one from Truls:
§Be brave & aggressive
–Be direct
–Seize all opportunities
–Use varying methods of [...]
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Tags: jante viking law norway
Update on the Viking law
My post on the viking law has attracted some reactions, and two people have posted me alternate versions, Truls Berg, managing director in Movation and Annicken Rød, chief cultural officer in Tandberg. Here is an update and a poll for the best one.
Truls Bergs version, according to him unchanged since 1999:
Be brave and aggressive!
• Be [...]
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Tags: jante viking law norway
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