HBR: Moments of Truth

I use my subscription to HBR strictly as bathroom reading material. This injects a dose of much-needed humility to it.

The articles are often interesting, but the topic is seldom presented from the European point of view, never mind from the Scandinavian point of view. The Nokia articles are formulaic, and I suppose to the triumph of the Nokia PR department, I never feel that I have any kind of an emotional bond to the issues or people.

Imagine my surprise when in the very first article of an issue, Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo shows a kind of an insight into the Finnish culture. The contrast to the next part of the article, written by the American CEO of the private defense industry company Blackwater, couldn't be starker.