I am sure you remember the first time you moved in with someone. Perhaps your first girl- or boyfriend, or perhaps a new roommate at university. Maybe you had thought it through and were well prepared. Perhaps it happened quickly, and the consequences dawned upon you later.
Former US Secretary of defense Donald Rumsfeld once said: “There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don’t know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don’t know we don’t know.”
The good thing about making a decision is that you can make a new one if the one you made was the wrong one. Sometimes managers are just too slow, sometimes for the wrong reasons. General Norman Schwarzkopf was the commander of the allied forces in the Gulf War, writes about this.
Nicolai Tangen, the CEO of the Norwegian Oil Fund, has given us unique access to great leaders and thinkers through the podcast “In Good Company”. In the series, Tangen interviews CEOs from companies in the Fund’s portfolio as well as thinkers on topics like leadership and strategy – and a good corporate culture.
A few years ago, my spouse was living in Paris. And, of course, we wanted to make the most out of staying in such a beautiful city. As we both have a passion for sports, we decided to learn more about rugby as this is big in France.
The idea that the first 100 days of a leader’s reign are crucial dates back to Franklin D. Roosevelt’s inauguration to his initial US presidential term in March 1933.
