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I became acquainted with Hans Rosling in 2007 when I first saw the video from his TEDtalk. In addition to the immensely entertaining presentation, it also reminded me of the bias we exercise in [...]

Navigating the road to successful entrepreneurship isn’t easy, and shortcuts that seem like great ideas often lead to bumpy roads. Instead of focusing on profit at any cost, entrepreneurs that [...]

One of the best books I read in 2017 was The Halo Effect by Phil Rosenzweig. Phil Rosenzweig delivers a devastating attack on all self-help books and management gurus, who claim that their [...]

TBK Publishing® today releases the business biography 5,460 Miles from Silicon Valley – The In-depth Case Study of What Became Microsoft’s First Billion Dollar Acquisition Outside the USA. [...]

What did the failed Newton project cost Apple? What did the OS/2 mistake cost IBM? What did it cost Blackberry to stick to its keyboard? What did it cost Nokia to ignore Apple’s iPhone? [...]

It’s hardly surprising that, in my capacity as an author, I think book reviews are important and meaningful. My main message in this post is not how to please the authors, but how it can [...]

I do not like the term “social selling.” When I reviewed Jamie Shanks’s book Social Selling Mastery: Scaling Up Your Sales and Marketing Machine for the Digital Buyer in [...]

When Microsoft acquired Navision in 2002, the latter had a turnover of DKK 1.8 billion (USD 360M), employed 1,200 people and showed a profit of 22% of revenue. A healthy business you could say. [...]

“5,460 Miles from Silicon Valley” is the English title of the business biography “From Damgaard to Microsoft.” Get the book at a reduced price. When I set out to write the [...]

The USA is still the biggest market for information technology, but that will change within the next five years. China will overtake the USA as the world’s biggest market for almost [...]