Meet Marte Sootholtet

Marte Sootholtet is the general manager of Impact StartUp Norway. She is a Kaospilot and has 10 years of experience from the social innovation and startup scene and has extensive experience as a project manager and service designer on a number of development projects...

Meet Anders Sjöstedt

Please introduce yourself My name is Anders Sjöstedt. I come from Malmö, Sweden. After many years in New York and Spain with my husband David, we have moved back to Sweden to focus on the development of our hair care company Martinsson King. Which team and when did...

How to Avoid Failure

By Anders Drejer & Christer Windeloew-Lidzélius In 1905, the average life expectancy of a company was 70 years. A century later, that number was 20. Conclusion: apparently, more and more companies fail and become extinct. Why do companies fail? Is it inevitable,...

Why Do We Fail?

By Anders Drejer & Christer Windelov-Lidzélius Why do companies fail? Is it inevitable, caused by disruptive changes in the organisations’ environment or managerial sloppiness? Or can it be avoided? Interestingly, in a world where interest has always mainly been...

Gazza at the Controls

By Anders Drejer & Christer Windeløv-Lidzélius Sometimes you need “Gazza” at the controls In 1997 the England National Team flew to Italy for a football match. On that plane was Manchester United hardman Paul “Da Gov’nor” Ince and infamous troublemaker Paul...

Cowboy Number One and His Problems

By Anders Drejer & Christer Windeloew-Lidzélius Ever heard the epitaph “Cowboy Number One”? There is a Western movie, “Public Cowboy No 1”, from 1937 as well as the Frankie Goes to Hollywood song “Two Tribes”; then there is the reference to the late American...