CO2 in +300Million years....

Interesting ... in the AIT there was an impressive graf from last 600 000 years about CO2 levels (analysed from ice samples). The graf showed clearly the brutal fact - we are causing an exceptional period of rising CO2 and avarage temperatures.














In yesterday's Hesari (Hesari absolutely rocks - I appreciate HS's professionalism in educating and keeping us uptodate more and more every day ;o) there was another very interesting graf from the last +300 Million years (analysed from polar ice and stone deposits with radiometric dating). The theory is that rising levels of CO2 have always meant larger extinction of spieces.
It looks like in real earthly time scale (not in human scale since we are only about few 100 000s of years old) we are nowhere to levels of Co2 our home has been going thru earlier ... BUT if it all goes like predicted at year 2100 we will be at same level of CO2 when the dinosauruses died.

Bringing the best out of people...

The Fatal organisational formula ? The more insecure one is about the one's position the more one micromanages... the more micromanagement the less true commitment, innovation and real winning results one gets out of the people.

Trust is leadership - trust makes 1+1 result more than 2. Trust makes winning teams.

Good management enables people to achieve what is needed to win the game by laying out trust and constructive mutually benefitial monitoring of the progress.

For the last +14 years I've enjoyed management and teams where trust has been one of the key motivation for great achivements.... Actually isn't all benefitial human relationships based on trust ?

Sacred Hill

Had to try one bottle of Scared Hill Sav Blanc - it was the second in this year's Cuisine whites testing. Good but I think I'll stick with my favorite one Jackson Estate .... also known as CatPiss by some of my friends ;o)

Winter is here... finally

An hour of queuing in Messilä just for the tickets :o(

Tabu...

Auto tuli ... auto tuli.... auto tuli.

Joo, irti on - mene vaan !

Tabu - great Finnish heritage ;o))

AIT thoughts...

If EU is really serious about climate change why don't we just declare that after 2007 in EU no car with greater than 2liter cannot be sold anymore.

If you really think about it
1. nowadays we can anyway squeeze a really lot of power, torque and speed from 2liter and below motors,
2. only in Germany one can actually drive more than 130km/hrs (which sort of makes it just simply stupid under the circumstance to put so much effort on >>200km/hrs cars... simply a clear case of ego boosting thru the BIG car?) and even there Germans and planning to go to 130km/hrs limit... not to mention that we can squeeze >200km/hrs from 2liter motors ;o)


I have a feeling that the effect in terms of CO2 and fuel consumption savings in 2-3 year would be significant in EU level, and most of all on a bit longer term it would have a huge effect on really now directing autoindustry's efforts to the right direction instead of current super car launching which is sort of so passe under the circumstances ?

(Even though real beauties I have to admit) do AudiQ7, new BMW x5, Mercedes GL really make sense for anybody ?

Expectations - experiences - learning

Great expectations are the greatest personal show stopper to have great experiences... but also sometimes enable and boost the greatest personal learnings ?

About leadership....

A general who clearly only worries about his own stars can't really truly ever win a war ... few battles maybe but not a war. "I lost a star because you lost that battle"-thinking leads inevitably to everyman for himself thinking within the troops which leads to severely impacted total fighting power.

True great leadership is always based on personally living according to values one wants to build the fight on and for.

Great to remember my dad as the perfect model for perfect leadership ;o)

Fear factor ...

Is it simply so that when one tries to become the next ruler it's exactly those moments when one is at it's best - fast, lean, mean, effective, innovative, open minded, opportunistic, ~humble all at the same time. However, once the power has been established the fear of loosing the power becomes dominant and thus all actions in essence become eventually just defensive (and the defensive toolkit consist only truly that thinking which lead to power) which eventually always leads to entrance of inevitable new ruler ? Tempted to think that this not only how it happens in politics but also exactly corporate wars. Actually would make total sense since both "worlds" are run by humans ;o)

19.01.2007 .... actually the point is not really in the "becoming the winner - defending that position" but exactly in the fact how you defend - if you cannot truly open mindedly and constantly evaluate and develop how you win&win&win&.... then you might inevitably end up beeing a the one who just always defends ? and does it by tuning the previous winning methods to extreme since of course eg all competencies are been build around them
?

Santa was here...

Somehow I always managed to miss the best part of Xmas - when Santa comes to visit us ... tough luck.

Have to give myself credit for picking good trees - this was the first thing I laid my eyes on, and it was perfect ;o)