Mon.Jan 30, 2012

YoungUpstarts

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“What the Heck Is Wrong With My Leadership?”

YoungUpstarts

by Pekka A. Viljakainen, author of “ No Fear: Business Leadership for the Digital Age “ In 1998, I sold part of my company (which I had founded in 1986, when I was 13) to the Finnish IT services firm Tieto. Two years later we made it a full merger, and I joined the Tieto management team. I was used to managing 200 Finnish nerds, with whom my straight-ahead approach (my nickname is “Bulldozer”) got great results.