Archive : Xpats Opinions

I have been thinking a lot about motivation and how leaders can motivate employees.  It is inherent that if you are a good leader, then you will be a good motivator.  Maybe I should be writing about leadership and the lack there of it in the workplace where we have managers leading teams.  This is perhaps about as good as an idea as hiring a blind bus driver to take your kids to school. I guess [...]

Dear Tele2, I write this open letter to explain why it is that I have chosen to end my subscription at Tele2. It is also to educate those who are about to sign up with Tele2 so they know what to expect from point of sale to customer service. I would have sent this email via an email service if only I was given an email address when I asked your customer service agent for it. I was instead told that [...]

Black Friday came a little over a week ago. Under the Bush Jr. administration gambling with the use of a credit card was outlawed,  but a number of online poker and casino companies continued a newly illegal practice of allowing Americans to use their credit cards to gamble.  Here is the new related to black Friday Last week a number of poker rooms had their domain names seized, and the FBI issued [...]

It was only last year that we saw Greece and Ireland go bankrupt, and once again I am watching a third unfold from my IKEA sofa.   We all knew for a while that this was going to happen, but because of the way we have constructed our world, so countries are walking a financial tightrope, it is until their rears are in the flames that the government pulls out its head to say they have found a problem. This [...]

I was just watching intellectuals on the news talk about issues that are center to American foreign policy.  It is amazing how they all speak with one voice and seem to back a very similar viewpoint – even if that viewpoint is not that of the current administration. It just gets me to thinking that perhaps the Senate and the House of Representatives are not  currently what they are supposed to [...]

The gaming industry in Sweden is currently monopolized by Svenka Spel, the lottery agency, and Travoch Galopp, Sweden’s horse racing association. As it stands now, they control all of the countries casino, online gaming and poker tournaments, and have brought harsh criticism from the European Union because of the conglomerates overarching control. Sweden in considering breaking up the monopoly, [...]

There is something I have to get off my chest, and although this is not the most important issue in Sweden needing to be discussed, it is still something of note. Last night on my way home, I swung by the little Coop Nära, a small convenience store, around the corner from my place to pick up a bite to eat. My lady is out of town, and I thought a relaxing evening at home with the TV and a beer would [...]