Writing
“Stop thinking the world is a just place” says Jeffrey Pfeffer in his brand new book Power: Why Some People Have It and Other’s Don’t
I admit. I am a “bookaholic”. I write books and I love to read and buy books. I get inner strength from them and my mind gets nurtured with new ideas that I can dwell during the days when time permits as well as during my numerous world travels like the long flights across the…
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 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 MoreAnnouncing the topic of my new upcoming book from Talentum
It is time to reveal the name of my new upcoming book. We have agreed it to be ” Rohkeasti maailmalle – onnistu liike-elämässä ja ihmisenä”. If one translates it to English, it is close to following: “Bravely out into the wide world – become successful in business and as a person”. My first book “Onnistu suuressa maailmassa – opas…
Read MoreCopying with family when living across the Atlantic can be hard
When we emigrate to a new country, we do not typically think about how to deal with our aging parents and other family members back home in your native country. I am sitting in a tram in Helsinki on my way to my wife’s mother who has been very illa for quite a while. How does…
Read MoreMy weekend reads and the topics: Brian Tracy, Howard Gardner, Tal Ben-Chakar, Wayne W. Dyer and Craig Ferguson
What a beautiful weekend, my decisions a week ago has now freed me to work on my book, do some reading and build the “story board” that I have in my head. When I was around 30, I run into the motivational speaker and author Brian Tracy as I read a book from the Finnish Jari…
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