Category Archives: Brainstorming

we don’t have action plans for happy people

In my role as Nordic HR business partner for IBM Global Services, one of my high value activities was to lead endless workshops with all new IBMers and in-sourced employees at a time when we received thousands of new employees … Continue reading

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Om Esko Kilpi, Hollywood, Sverige, framtiden, Jesper Strömbäck och vargar

“The new opportunity is interdependent individuals working creatively together for complementary reasons” – @eskokilpi I samband med att jag började använda Twitter 2010 så “upptäckte jag” Esko Kilpi, en fantastisk tänkare, som bor och verkar i Finland. Hans kommentar ovan fastnade … Continue reading

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International Teachers’ Day: allow my Swedish reflection & appraisal

This day, I would like to praise three individuals I have met and worked with over the last two years in a globally recognized CSR initiative for HCL technology I managed together with Liselotte Hägertz Engstam. They are three real … Continue reading

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gamification & employee engagement

This week I have spent considerable time to understand drivers and opportunities around gamification related to employee engagement. We can debate if gamification is a good name or not. Personally I believe the term behavioral economics instead, simply as that … Continue reading

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my review of the Tower Watsons “2012 Global Workforce Study”

I have just read the Tower Watsons “2012 Global Workforce Study: Driving Strong Performance in a Volatile Global Environment” and I am full agreement with their findings and recommendations. Below are my comments to this report.   This report is a … Continue reading

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what does sustainable and creative competencies actually mean?

As a starter, it depends on the context, so let us revisit some general definitions first as we can always refine the absolute definitions later: “Sustainability is the general capacity to endure. For humans, sustainability is the long-term maintenance of … Continue reading

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gamification + HCM + CIO = professional avatars?

I have been thinking a lot lately about gamification and how it will change the way we will work with the facebook generation  (to simplify and generalise a bit). I have also been observing and looking at our teenagers commitment to online … Continue reading

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my 1000th tweet reflection: wow, with an exclamation mark

My first tweet was – like for many others – along ” So I am on Twitter, now what?”, a normal unimpressed reaction entering a large empty room everyone had been talking about, empty but still cluttered with endless content… … Continue reading

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