All of Europe like Skansen...

John Naisbitt has a new book coming out in a few weeks called, Mind Set!: Re-Set Your Thinking and See the Future. For those of you who don’t remember, Naisbitt wrote the monster book, Megatrends in 1982. Well this time he makes an interesting prediction about Europe. He predicts the steady decline of Europe. He states basically that the EU and Europe itself will never get it act together because historical/political...

For Göran Persson Party is more important than co...

Yesterday the moderate coalition won the Swedish national elections. So after over 10 years we will have a new Prime Minister, Fredrik Reinfeldt and a more conservative government (thank goodness). But one thing that disturbed me last night was how the loser and outgoing Prime Minister Persson handled it. This may point to one difference between the US and Sweden or at least between the Social Democratics and most civilized...

New Math...

I did not write this… but I wish I had. This is a strictly mathematical viewpoint: What Makes 100%? What does it mean to give MORE than 100%? Ever wonder about those people who say they are giving more than 100%? We have all been to those meetings where someone wants you to give over 100%. How about achieving 103%? What makes up 100% in life? Here’s a little mathematical formula that might help you answer...