Posts by DrSalonen
Understanding your Ecosystem and Leveraging it Using Modern Social Media Tools
Today I have been working on a chapter to my third book that has to do with ecosystem research and understanding the influencers within it. This is something that organizations are slowly but surely moving towards and these are the reasons for it: 1) Most organizations really do not know how to define their ecosystem…
Read MoreUpdate on my second book: Boldly into the World – Succeed in Business Life and as an Individual
I have submitted my second book to my editor at Talentum and waiting for the next iteration round. I am very excited to be in this stage of the project as I can see the light in the tunnel. I know this from past experiences. My editor is great and I have all the trust…
Read MoreDescribe happiness question was unexpected to my interviewees
I spent at least 45 hours interviewing and transcribing the results in Microsoft OneNote (which is the best thing that happened to me as a tool, besides Microsoft Word) and I wanted the interviewee to focus on my questions, so I threw a question on them that they did not expect: “Describe what happiness means…
Read MoreMy experiences are nothing compared to the collected experience of 30+ people
I am lucky. I have now concluded more than 30 interviews for my upcoming book Rohkeasti maailmalle. As an author, I have to say that I am very humbled of the hundreds of years of experience that people have given me in the form of stories of their personal life and how their families have…
Read MoreWe have a provisional date for the upcoming book Rohkeasti maailmalle
I just returned from Finland and had a good meeting with my publisher Talentum. We agreed that the manuscript needs to be done by mid-February and the provisional publication month is May 2010. I am in the final process of interviews of many interesting emigrants and expats that want to share their story. These people include…
Read MoreThe Geopolitics of Emotion: How Cultures of Fear, Humiliation, and Hope are Reshaping the World by Dominique Moisi
One of my favorite Sunday programs in CNN is Fareed Zakaria’s program GPS. He is not only a good reporter, he has a tremendous understanding of the current world situation and he brings very interesting people to his show. Each week he makes book recommendations and this week one book specifically caught my attention. A…
Read MoreThe Power of Interviews when working on a book: new perspectives from each interview
Today I made two interviews, father and son, they both live in Dallas and they have also lived in the UK. It was fascinating to get two perspectives of living abroad; one from a father that did the decision and one from the son that had to go with the decision. Yesterday I interviewed a…
Read MoreThe angst of an author and about writing process
This is my second book (if one does not count my doctoral dissertation of 330 pages as a monograph) and I have to say that I have found my own way of building the content. It is much easier that with the first one, and I now know what works best for me as a…
Read MoreThe Pursuit of Perfect
Today I have been proof-reading and working on the second chapter of my upcoming book Rohkeasti maailmalle. This chapter is about our careers, setting the goals of our careers and how to pursue happiness in anything we do in our lives. When researching in the topic, I run into one of my books (in my…
Read MoreSocial media and its impact on people living abroad
Today, I was writing a section about the impact that social media has on our lives. Think about Facebook for example. That has changed completely the way we see the world. Today, I can follow my family and friends in Finland, what they are up to and also about their daily life. Some of you…
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