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You as a leader will impact teams, organization and company around you wheather you want it or not What kind of leader you are will obviously impact other leaders and the company culture. People don’t do what you tell them to do, but what you do. Therefore make sure to take a minute now and then to think about how you are as a leader, how others perceive you and how you’re impacting others. It’s unfortunately very easy to introduce the culture of cold blooded blame game and individualism just because you’re stressed and frustrated. But believe me, you don’t want to go there…not for yourself and not for the sake of your company or anyone else… Remember and remind yourself about the levels-of-culture from “Tribal Leadership” that applies for any group of people, team, organization or whole company? ·           "All life sucks!"       Stage One:  The stage most professionals skip, these are tribes whose members are despairing...

Boid is a legendary AI program from the 80ies. It is about emergent systems, i.e. self-organising organisations, where the whole is greater that the individuals, but the individuals are in command. Boid is short for “bird-oid”, i.e. bird robot, and simulates bird flocks. In a flock every boid decides which direction to take based on simple principle guidelines. Every boid is also paying attention to the group and thereby something greater emerges. One boid can get the entire flock to change direction, but no boid is leading the group. One boid or several might be at the front pointing out the direction, but they can also retire into to group and the group decides whether they follow or not. If no boid was flying the flock wouldn’t get anywhere. If all boids were flying independently of each other, they would be alone. If no boid took the lead the flock would eventually crash. In Command is an encouragement to everyone to take command to handle every situation yourselves. Becaus...

Edge is our everlasting search for relevant competence and how we maintain and grow it (just like we have our everlasting search for the right talents and the right engagements) Edge is making sure we as a company have the necessary current valuable competence and to make sure that shared competence bring value to each and every client of ours. Edge is how Netlighters create together, challenges each other and creates an inspiring working climate together, for all to develop and grow within.  Fragments from my opening speach at Netlight Edge Conference 2014, Oslo; A year has passed since last year’s Edge Conference, when we met in Clarion, Stockholm. And what a year. I get moved to tears when I hear about all the amazing deliveries we’ve made out there. Without naming any of the client we’ve helped, looking at the value we’ve been providing, the increase in revenue, the increase in share price or merely the public success and growing brand recognition. It’s cle...

Very engaging presentation by Marten Blankesteij, CEO Blendl, about the highly interesting product Blendl.nl - today at Netlight Edge Conference 2014 in Oslo. "Young people will never pay for newspaper articles anymore" - just like "Young people will never pay for musik anymore"...right? :-) "Blendl is described as “the sexiest paywall in the world”. All major Dutch publishers have joined, as well as The Economist. Previously, Blankesteijn was editor-in chief of a travel magazine and editor of one of the biggest newspapers." The story of success - once again it has been proven; Focus on user value - if your product provides value obvious to the user, the user is willing to pay for it. Focus on user experience - make it easy and make it obvious, focus on what is important. Care about your user and dare to trust the user - trust will provide a better user experience and a better brand recognition, it always show if you care for real....

Netlight Edge Conference, Oct 5th 2014 - the 5th edition of our own grandios technology conference. http://ec.netlight.com/ This year the conference will be held in Oslo with our Oslo office hosting the event and we're expecting more than 500 visitors. Media will sort of be the theme of the day. The reason we chose media is not that it’s hot and trendy right now but rather that we see media currently leading and driving technology forward. The industry have been up to a huge challenge, and still ongoing, in going from traditional print to digital. And the challenge to take online from being simply a marketing channel, free of use for the customers a couple of years ago, to provide ones full product portfolio and all service offerings online today, experimenting with different alternatives of payment wall strategies. Netlight loves media and are very much involved in all the main players in Stockholm, Oslo and more and more in Munich. During the Swedish elections recentl...

Being a great entrepreneur and leader is not about starting a new company, nor it's a one-man-show. It's about believing in something and then engage in the challenge. It's about finding the right people to create together with and to grow talent together with. There are no shortcuts, only hard work - but it's so much fun and I love it! If you succeed, if you find the right thing to believe in, if you find the right people to create together with and if you really engage, then you can become a part of something great, be part af a great piece of art, like a monument. Or as Steve Jobs would have put it " make your dent in the Universe and start not just a business, but an entirely new way of life". Here is a great post and some examples to become inspired by. They have all found something to believe in, found the right people to work with and grown talent together. They all have built "life is great" organisations around them that believe in w...

When our (Netlight’s) CEO Erik Ringertz (@ringertz) win the Swedish national nomination of “boss of the year”. Doesn’t it have to mean that all we stand for and fight for is appreciated also by the “outside” world? http://chef.se/erik-ringertz-vd-netlight-ar-arets-chef-2014/ When it’s proven again again that working and creating together for real provides so much more value and fun for all. Spring is here (in Sweden) – if only for a day or two When you feel your garden wakes to life after the very long winter sleep When you find three newly laid eggs in your hen house When your hen can walk around freely in the garden and after several tries manages to scare away the neighbour cat by themselves (yet again by working together) When you can start with all the wonderful work and projects you have in front of you in your garden together with your family - to get a rest from work and to get new inspiration. When you finally get to prune your young hedge of privet (liguster) to l...