Work & business
Leading people, making decisions and carrying responsibility.
Spørretimen Explained
The best-selling book about people ever written, from 1936. A walk through the ideas in Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People – why criticism does not work, what genuine interest does, and where the line to manipulation runs.
What do FOB, CIF, DAP and DDP actually mean – and where does the risk really pass? A walk through all eleven Incoterms 2020 rules, the split between risk and cost, what changed from 2010, and the most common mistakes in practice.
What is lean, really? A walk through the system Toyota built – value and waste, the seven wastes, the five principles, kanban and just-in-time, kaizen and PDCA – and through the criticism about redundancies, fragile supply chains and work pressure.
The founder of the world's largest hedge fund on how he makes up his mind. A walk through the ideas in Ray Dalio's Principles – written rules, radical transparency, believability weighting – and how well they survive being taken out of Bridgewater.
Scientific management and the Toyota Production System side by side: Taylor's stopwatch, the fabricated story of Schmidt, Toyota's andon cord, how extreme both systems really are – and what separates them.
The assembly line was not invented in the car industry. It came from the Chicago slaughterhouses, where animals were taken apart on rails. Here is how the idea was reversed, what happened to the price – and what it cost the people standing at the line.
Two systems that have to talk to each other, and a project that often does not go to plan. This is my master's thesis from 2025 – what 22 practitioners and four consultants report as the causes of ERP–WMS integration failure, which measures they think work, and why the biggest number is not a technical one.
Why do some people and companies manage to inspire, while others merely inform? A walk through the ideas in Simon Sinek's Start With Why – the golden circle, manipulation versus inspiration – and an honest look at the reasoning behind it.
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