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Decentralization, Crowdsourcing and Trust – The Fundamental Shift Towards The New Crowd Economy

March 2, 2018

CSW standard banner (2) Decentralization is at the heart of the disruption we have seen brought about by new companies utilizing mass, personal connectivity in many business and industry sectors to let us transact directly with each other rather.   Decentralization does not mean it is a perfect system, actually it means restructuring existing organizational… » read more

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Climate & Environment, Climate Change, Energy, English, EU Priorities 2020, Euro & Finance, European Citizens Initiative, Food and sustainability, Innovation & Enterprise, Leadership and sustainability, Political Governence, Renewable Energy, Social Europe & Jobs, Sustainability, Sustainable Dev.

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An agreement was reached at the Paris Summit – but now we need the financial markets to help deliver it

March 29, 2016

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6e_P_8dP6EQ Now that 195 nations have promised to signed up to the Paris climate agreement, the hard work begins. The signatories have all committed to ramping up their fight against climate change, but what happens next will prove crucial. The new five-year national plans to reduce global warming will provide the roadmap for action. Continuing… » read more

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Climate & Environment, Climate Change, Energy, Energy Efficiency, English, EurActiv.com, Leadership and sustainability, Political Governence, Renewable Energy, Sustainability, Sustainable Dev.

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Nordic Mayors and cities: on the road to Paris and beyond

August 21, 2015

In the last days of June, 20 Nordic mayors, nine representatives from Nordic cities, and 45 experts in urban development and climate change (from as far afield as the US, Africa and India) converged in Gotland, Sweden. They joined together for a special event at Almedalen Week – a series of talks and seminars geared… » read more

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Climate Change, EurActiv.com, Leadership and sustainability, Political Governence

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Can city mayors lead the way on sustainable development?

May 15, 2015

  On a recent trip to San Francisco and Austin, Texas, I found myself accompanied by two potential agents of change – Benjamin Barber’s book If Mayors Ruled the World and a newly appointed Swedish city mayor, Niklas Nordström. The former has the power to inspire and empower local politicians who wish to take on… » read more

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Climate Change, Leadership and sustainability, Political Governence, Sustainability, Uncategorized

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Political leadership in a new era

May 13, 2014

IPCC. Drought. Storms. CO2 levels of 400 ppm. In 2014, climate change and sustainability moved from being distinct environmental concerns to becoming systematic welfare issues. Agricultural production was effected by both droughts and floods in many areas around the world. We have also seen war and conflictemerge in the wake of climate change and the… » read more

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Leadership and sustainability, Political Governence, Sustainability, Sustainable Dev.

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Irrational people, behaviors and decisions

August 14, 2013

I often find myself thinking about our ability to make decisions. Perhaps this is because the fundamental ethics that lie behind our choices can apply to both the large and small issues that we deal with each day – at work, with our families or when we go shopping. Psychologists and philosophers like Kant and… » read more

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Climate Change, Leadership and sustainability, Political Governence, Sustainability

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Almedalen 2013 – A slumbering welfare model “at risk”

June 2, 2013

We are now approaching the time for Sweden’s biggest political event – The Almedalen Political Week (June 30-July 7). An event on the island of Gotland in the Baltic sea which now brings together 20,000 participants from all Swedish political parties in the Swedish parliament, their stakeholders and foreign guests. A strong contributing factor to… » read more

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Leadership and sustainability, Political Governence, Sustainability

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Towards a Lagom Society

May 21, 2013

We have a wonderful word in Swedish, ’lagom.’ Its meaning, like all wonderful foreign words, gets lost in translation, coming out as something like ’sufficient’ or ’adequate’ in English. But these synonyms fail to capture the contentment or perfect balance lagom entails. I like to think of it in reference to the classic fairytale, ’Goldilocks… » read more

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Leadership and sustainability, Political Governence, Uncategorized

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State-Owned, But on Whose Behalf?

February 15, 2013

I want to talk to you about TeliaSonera, a telecoms operator, and Vattenfall, an energy company. Both these companies are Swedish. Both are giants in their respective sectors. And both have recently been embroiled in scandals that have cost their CEOs their jobs. Vattenfall in 2009 and TeliaSonera in 2013. TeliSonera stands accused of bribery… » read more

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Leadership and sustainability, Political Governence

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Bankrupting Nature

January 16, 2013

As you may have noticed, a theme I return to time and time again on this blog is the disconnect between the scale of the environmental crisis we face globally – which, arguably could be more devastating, widespread and enduring than any of the 20th Century’s World Wars – and the limp response from the… » read more

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Leadership and sustainability, Political Governence

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Kaj Embren

Views from a Coach and Advisor on strategic leadership issues regarding Sustainability

Views from a Coach and Advisor on strategic leadership issues regarding Sustainability


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