I was listening to a pretty successful entrepreneur the other day. The point he made really clicked with me. His success was not based on his earlier success, but his failures. It was nice that his customers reached their goals. But what got him to study deeper and work more on his service, was the […]

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7 second, 140 signs to get attention, can you do that? Writing is not about putting words on paper or in digital form. Writing is about having an impact. At it’s best it creates very strong emotions. Emotions which then convert to thoughts and eventually to actions. There are some rules, that help everyone to […]

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Some of you know, that I love dancing. Salsa is a dance, but it stands for something else too. You sure have heard about Deming’s circle (Plan – Do – Study (often wrongly stated as Check) – Act). S-A-L-S-A is the communication circle which is built with emotional intelligence When we talk about communication, we […]

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It seems like the right approach in networking: Figure out what the person you’re connecting with wants to hear, and then work to impress them. That is true, but it carries a risk in it. You can over do it, which means that people don’t believe you. When people don’t believe in you, that defines […]

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Korona heitti meidät keskellä pikakelauksella menevää muutosta. Asiat, jotka näyttivät olevan tulossa joskus myöhemmin, ovat täällä jo nyt. Monet asiat on otettava haltuun nopeasti ja oppimiseen on paljon vähemmän aikaa kuin ajattelimme. Tämän epävarmuuden keskellä itsetuntemuksen taidot ovat koetuksella. Miten oikeasti ollaan empaattisia kun toimitaan etänä ja ollaan varuillaan? Entä ne muut 8 tulevaisuustaitoa, mitä […]

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The following text is for those who want to succeed, specially during tough times. It works for you if you are a parent. Or if you are a spouse. Or if you a are leader. Well, it works if you deal with living creatures. Our resilience and personalities are put under stress test over these […]

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We lose a lot of information, when we have online meetings. Therefore the risk of mis-interpretation is exploding! Harvard Business Review published an article some years ago, where they discussed productivity and feelings. Just comparing the normally satisfied people and those with negative thoughts of the organization, they found that satisfied people are almost 50 […]

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Löytäkää uusia ratkaisuja. Siinä yksi ohje jota varsinkin juuri nyt annetaan. Sinulle on varmasti sanottu “olkaa asiakaskeskeisiä”. Tuota hoetaan kuin kaiken ratkaisevaa mantraa. Mutta mitä se sitten oikeastaan tarkoittaa? Businekset ovat kuitenkin niin kovin erilaisia, yrittäjistä nyt puhumattakaan. Ja menestyneetkin näyttävät olevan kovin erilaisia. Tässä muutama ajatus aiheesta. Joidenkin satojen yrittäjien ja tuhansien johtajien kohtaamisiin […]

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Rajoituksia, sulkemisia, konkursseja, kuolemia ja mitä vielä? Tuskaa ihmisten mielessä, pelkoa tulevaisuudesta ja huolta lähimmäisistä. Kaikkea tuota meidän arkemme juuri nyt on. Miten saada oma viesti esille? Miten kaiken keskellä pitää huolta läheisistä ja työkavereista? Nuo ovat kysymyksiä, joita jokainen johtaja, esimies ja yrittäjä esittää itselleen. Kriisin keskellä meidän mielemme keskittyy entistä vahvemmin havaitsemaan uhkia. […]

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Vuodet sisältävät kriisiä kriisin perään. Aina osalle tuhoa ja osalle kasvua, kumman sinä valitset? Me juuri nyt kipuilemme yhteiskuntana merkittävän ongelman keskellä. Tästä, kuten aikaisemmistakin kriiseistä tulee osa organisaatioista ulos menestyjinä. Tämän tapahtuman seurauksena monet entiset mallit tuhoutuvat. Osa kokonaan, osa joiltakin osin. Se on helppo selitys, miksi näin käy muillekin. Se käy (tekosyynä) oman […]

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It’s not those who are part of the story, that make you fail! Who writes the stories of your life? Who should write the story of your life? Does it really matter, who writes the story? We all know people, who talk about how they would have, but because someone else did something they could […]

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Is your thought “I’m not a bad boss, I don’t benefit from this”? About 50% of the “bad boss” case, it is really not about bad boss! Mental structure differences just make us feel uncomfortable with the “wrong” kind of personality. Only after you look at the bad boss features through your personality, you can […]

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Are people seeing you as a bad boss? Are you having a bad boss? What really makes a bad boss? 3 very big questions to look at. Clearly understanding the characteristics of a person exhibiting bad leadership is important. Here are seven to raise your awareness. I will give you some insight on those, and […]

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But what creates happiness? And why does that make you a better leader? And further more, deliver good business results? Ray Chambers, a former tough business man, now a philanthropist, has given some rules for happiness. 1. be in the moment 2. better loving than right 3. be a spectator to your own thoughts 4. […]

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We are our own worst enemy. Whether we are afraid of something or too busy with achieving something, we actually hurt our future. Sometimes even the moments we are in. And the people around us. “What is gratitude? And more so, why should you feel that on your self? What does the research have to […]

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According to McKinsey (link at the end), in medium complexity work, talented people are 85 % more productive. Even in the basic work, talent means about 50 % higher productivity. And, what is really scary, is that in very complex environments talented people can be 800 % more productive. But, what is talent? Can talent […]

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Has it ever crossed your mind “I might fail in this”? Even the best of the best have moments, when they feel that they will fail! That is human and you actually must have those moments! The important thing is to move forward after such moments. Our brain prefers to be on alert of risks. […]

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Are you aware of what you must have within the next few years? What actually defines whether you succeed of perish?   The most important competencies are Cognitive abilities, Systems skills and Complex problem solving skills. What we know, through science, is that being successful in all these areas is depending on following elements. 1. […]

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One of the most important things of leaders is to ensure that the organisation is learning. Only those who dare to challenge their operations before the environment does, will survive on the long run. For the most people there are two things that make learning difficult. The first one is that our brain sees changes […]

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Oletko sinä joskus kaatunut? Mitä siitä oikeasti opit? Minä kaaduin jokunen vuosi sitten polkupyörällä oikein kunnolla. Nolointahan jutussa on se, että tiedän mitä olisi pitänyt tehdä, mutta tein silti toisin. Onneksi kypärä on kaveri ja iho on uusiutuva luonnonvara. Meitä Johtajuustaito.fi joukkueessa kiinnostaa erityisesti työyhteisössä tapahtuvat kompuroinnit. Tai oikeastaan vielä enemmän se, miten välttää kompurointi? […]

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Olet varmaan kuullut tarinan siitä, miten USA:ssa joku sai oikeuden päätöksellä paljon rahaa, kun mikron käyttöohjeissa ei lukenut että kissaa ei saa laittaa mikroon. Taru on totuutta ihmeellisempää, tuollaista oikeudenkäyntiä ei ole koskaan ollut. Organisaatioissa on vastaavia totuuksia, kertomuksia ja epävirallisia ohjeita, joita noudatetaan koska ”niin meillä tehdään”. Onko niillä sitten merkitystä? Onko tarvetta puuttua […]

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The most common problem organizations have is related to communication. Which has direct impact of profitability! We hear, that even the Z-generation wants to have constructive feedback. World wide 13 % of employees are truly engaged (and in Finland it is only 12 %, the happiest country in the world). Something is not functioning. Leaders […]

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“A fool can ask more questions than 7 wise men can answer” is what the Germans say. Luckily most people know their business, so they are not fools! All they need are good answers. For those they need people with experience and knowledge. People who can also understand what to ask if the question needs […]

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Are you making choices, that kill your career? There are three different phases in our career, that define our career! And a bit more too. Those phases have also an impact on our health and family relations! The first phase is looking for getting a new job. The second phase is maintaining the contemporary position. […]

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Have you ever spent time putting together a puzzle with 1000 or more pieces? What is the lesson from that to leaders and teachers? I have been putting together puzzles with large number of pieces. It is challenging, takes some time. Putting together a puzzle also takes one to almost meditative mode. You are so […]

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Changing culture, implementing new strategies take a lot of time. This is what we have been taught over and over again. At the same time we know, how one single event can change persons behaviour. Most of us have been that person, a big mistake during teenage has changed our behaviour, for me this has […]

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Questions inspire passion. Passion delivers commitment and engagement, the root causes of success. Are you ready to ask questions, and more so, to listen to answers to understand where the passion is hiding? The value and meaning of your work / study is what keeps you going. The feeling one gets when your work is […]

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Sharing information, running trainings and studying are all waste of time, if one thing is missing! That one thing is emotion. Just think back, even as we were learning how to multiply, it really started to mean something, when we got the joy of completing a task. Let me share a personal experience; the core […]

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What is WIP? We are used to hear and talk about WIP, work in process, in production industry. It is monitored, measured and actions are taken on it. All good? Sorry, no! In contemporary world what really is costing a lot, is the time of specialist. People who work with knowledge. Those can be as […]

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One of the exiting and astonishing things learnt from the most successful business people in the world, is their ability to focus. Their secret is though different than we would think. They are not focusing on what to do! You get about 40 000 – 60 000 signal every single day. Your brain does on […]

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Cultivate Questions or fail. In contemporary world with overflow of information and huge speed of change, questions are mandatory. Whether you are in education, business or just enjoying life, questions improve your success and well being. Since the days of Socrates, we’ve known that the best way to learn about the world is to question […]

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Tomorrow’s success and getting things done is a driver for me, is it a driver for you too? Has it ever happened to you, that you’ve been angry with your self, as you have failed in something? This has happened to me, more than once. Not long ago I found an article by 3 professors. […]

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Time is something we can never get back! And that thought leads most of use to waste time!   We are busy, we have a lot to do. So I will be doing this while I’m doing that and some other thing too. Our studies have shown, that multitasking kills your productivity. It leads to […]

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We have here in Finland discussions about the amount of hours of work per day and week. We had a huge 6 minutes daily work time increase some years ago. But is this really the important thing. Would the world be different, if everyone would work half an hour more. Or less? And when you […]

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The will and the need to be the decision maker is important for leaders. But, like in everything, there are major risks involved in this. Because the desire can lead to situations, where the leader stops listening. That easily carries on to something much worse. You know, all of us have moments, when we don’t […]

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Am I asking you to drink beer? Nope, but this text will help you to understand life, leadership and changes better. And to know, why we all need those “beery” moments.   The teacher gathered students together. There was a big, 10 liters, glass jar front of the teacher. Teacher asked a student to assist. […]

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Then you are using your toughness in a wrong way! The biggest mistake we can make, is in getting to the wrong battles. We might even win the battle, but not without wounds!   People leave leaders, not companies. That is true in situations, where people feel that they have an option, an opportunity to […]

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Last week I wrote about the position. Now we are getting to the core, which makes all the difference between being true leader and managing people. You may think, is there some difference? Let me give you two examples. First one from business. The difference between leader and manager (both holding the title of CEO […]

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Most of us have heard, how there is the formal organization and then there is the informal. The BIG question is, why does such situation exist? The importance comes from the point, that running an organization consumes resources. If there are two, the costs are much higher. There is also reduction of productivity, as there […]

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I just read a research paper from Kanwa & al (2017) on the role of emotion in banking industry. Fascinating read, where they covered emotional and cultural intelligence. What takes this research apart of many, is that there is also multicultural aspect in the population researched. In modern world, where people are more and more […]

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The question over the history on mankind is, what has made some leaders great? There is a clear answer to that. We all can learn those skills. What is preventing us from doing that, is something a bit surprising. It is our will to be successful. In the rush of becoming successful, we easily forget, […]

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Change is never easy. Well, I give you so much, that people who fall in love can do really major changes fast. But the “normal” life changes are mostly struggle. There is a clear and simple reason for that. Our brain, how it functions and what is the real main task of it. Change has […]

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I am sorry to say this, but it is truly a matter of choice, your choice. Not a destiny or faith. We have got a lot of habits from our family. That is why some people see lessons, where others see how unfair life is. Life is not fair or unfair, life just is. That […]

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There is nothing more energy consuming, than negative thoughts. Those steal our focus and prevent us from success. Jealousy and envy are both negative thoughts. Would you like have what someone else has? That is fine, but only if it is a positive driver. If your thought is “Why didn’t I get that” you are […]

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We are social creatures. That has taken the mankind to the present situation. That does include a derailment on individual level. We easily tend to go after the external positive feedback. Which eventually derails us from our own goals, from the best possible paths for us. There is also another negative side. We easily start […]

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The fastest process to single group mind is panic. That never delivers good results. The difference between success and failure is whether you see options or not.   Seeing options is about having an open mind. That means that we are willing and able to see new information. Under pressure or threat our brain very […]

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Taking responsibility is about leading oneself. There are several elements in leading oneself. Success requires that you take responsibility over all of those. But what is responsibility? We are held accountable for the outcome of our actions. Being responsible means here, that we need to work on the larger scale. Taking responsibility means that we […]

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What is wrong with those people? How can someone see life good, in a wheelchair? Or how can someone, who has gone through loosing his/her business be happy? They share something with the successful people. They focus on the things they truly can have an impact on. They don’t let self-pity lead their lives. We […]

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There are limits no how many people we can be connected to. For most people the true inner circle is 5 – 10 people. The next level can be between 10 – 20. And then the connection get weaker and weaker. What kind of people you are letting in to that inner circle? One thing […]

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One of the most difficult things in life is accepting things we cannot change. The second most difficult thing is seeing, what are those things. Successful people have the ability to accept. Accepting in order to learn. You have seen people, who do mistakes, hit the wall, over and over again. And that keeps them […]

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I was just reading an article written by Ulla Kulju (you probably can find her on Facebook). A disabled lady race driving motorcycles. She, among other disabled athletes, have a lesson to share. The lesson is “life is 10% of what happens to you and 90% of how you react to that”.   Your attitude […]

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We shouldn’t mix trust and self confidence here. Selfconfidence can be deceiving, as it may lead us not to see that we should learn to be better. Trust is understanding, that we don’t know everything, we are not great in everything, but that we can learn to be better. And eventually to reach the success […]

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Courage is about taking a moment to see beyond the initial biological reaction. To take a deliberate action even our brain is “screaming” something else. Taking that action is possible to everyone in 99.9 % of scary moments. We can take a helicopter view of the situation, see the bigger picture. That is what the […]

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We live our lives in comfor zone. Successful people break the bars of the comfort zone cage. If you have been A) having a nice job in a corporation or B) running a nice steady business for a longer time, you may need to put some effort to break free.  To do that, you need […]

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Change, change, change and on top of those rush^3. Every day a little more. We all know that, been there, lived that. That thinking has a history. Roots in the industrial revolution, world of machinery. Which is totally wrong for todays world and work of information and knowledge. That thinking is like focusing on the […]

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Toinen vahva yhteys muutoksessa ja ajamisessa on “mitä jyrkempi mutka, sitä tarkempi ajo”. Kun organisaatio lähtee toteuttamaan muutosta, niin on hyvä tunnistaa kuinka jyrkkä mutka on kyseessä työntekijöiden kannalta. Kun kuuntelen, johtajien kommentteja muutoksista, niin yleisin palaute on, että “kun ihmiset eivät tee kuten pitäisi”. Valmennuksissa / coach keskusteluissa käyn läpi muutoksen w-käyrän ja sen […]

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Monelle tuo ei kuitenkaan nykyään riitä motivaattoriksi. Ja sen myötä koko juttu, kesätyö, jää hankkimatta. Tässä kohtaan menee metsään, sillä se on huono valinta. Kesätyöt ovat ehkä jopa tärkeimpiä töitä, joita elämän varrella tulee tehtyä! Tekemättä jäänyt kesätyö jättää taitoihin aukkoja joita voi myöhemmin olla jopa mahdotonta paikata! Jokainen haluaa tehdä työtä, joka tuntuu hyvältä, […]

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Minulla oli putkivahinko kotona tässä pari kuukautta sitten. Se pisti monet asiat uusiksi, uuteen järjestykseen ja uudelleen pohdittavaksi. Remontin varrella eteen tuli myös yrittäjä, putkiliikkeen omistaja. Sovittiin aikataulu, joka ei sitten pitänytkään. Kun sitten soittelin perään ja kysyin, että milloin tämä heidän osuutensa mahtaa tapahtua, ja menin vielä kysymään, että  toteutuuko se nyt varmasti, niin […]

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Saamme vuorokaudessa 40 – 60 000 signaalia, joidenkin arvioiden mukaan jopa 100 000. Se, mitä me näille signaaleille teemme perustuu kahteen asiaan; geneettisesti perittyihin toimintamalleihin sekä opeteltuihin. Geneettisesti saadut mallit, ne jotka ovat meitä lajina pitäneet hengissä satoja tuhansia vuosia, eivät oikeasti kata tämän päivän signaalivirrasta kuin pienen osan. Kaiken muun me joudumme opettelemaan. Ja […]

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