“The Navision Model” was born when IBM said no thanks
PC&C GmbH became a huge success for both Navision and for the three founder. It is a unique export adventure in the short history of the European software industry and has become a precedent for international expansion under the name of "The Navision Model."...
My little secret in South Tyrol
There are obviously thousands of great places you can stay in South Tyrol, but when adding up all the various elements including the price Gasthof Etschblick is a small secret pearl that we can highly recommend....
Avoiding and mitigating risk is not the same thing
The reason that cultures with a high degree of risk-avoidance do few type B-investments is that they can obviously always save the investment and thereby avoiding the risk of failure and since they are “only” foregoing an opportunity and the consequences are not deadly, they seem better off in...
How getting fired advanced my career
Considering my next assignment as a project rather than a job has worked very well for me. Interviews were initiated by me, I defined the agenda and I chaired the meetings. After all it was me looking for a project that matched my ambitions and not me trying to...
How Focusing on The Results Can Make You Blind
The front office of our business model (business development, marketing and sales) are “business processes” exactly as product development, logistics, professional services, HR, G&A and manufacturing are. Getting them to work and delivering steadily increasing output at steadily decreasing cost requires the same approaches that we apply on all...
Why we should always share with others
Looking good is not the same as being good. A world with people sharing is a much better and richer place to live in than a world where everyone only takes care of themselves....
How LinkedIn made me a bestselling author
When I joined LinkedIn in 2004 I was not in a situation where I personally needed to be found, but I did want my company to be found, so I invested in building my profile around my company. In 2015 that changed and I embarked on a completely different...
What we get in return for our high taxes
In Denmark we disagree about a lot in politics, but not about the value of having a core foundation of tax-sponsored public services that make the playing field a little more even for all of us. Democracy, capitalism and human rights don't have to be every man for himself....
The price is what we pay – the value is what we get
The exact same product can produce very different levels of value depending on how the customer applies the technology. Some of these differences may be associated with objective factors such as the customer’s industry, location and company size, but mostly they are only associated with the customer’s organisational capability to...
Sales is Not a Dead Profession – it Has Just Changed Quite a Bit
A surprisingly large number of senior (sales) executives do not read many books. If you only read two books this year The Sales Acceleration Formula should be one of them....