Location: Denmark
Member Since:
Aug. 20, 2013
Martin Mosfeldt
Biography
Martin Mosfeldt is a Danish national and lives in Denmark on his country estate an hour west of Copenhagen. His CV is published separately on the World Wide Web. Some headlines:
1955--born in Denmark
1978--Master of Science in Engineering
1986--Advisory System Engineer, IBM
2001--Product Manager, Intel
2010--Master of Business Administration (Henley)
He has ten years of cross-industry management consulting experience obtained in small ICT-oriented professional services firms. Since 2010 he has seen himself as a general businessman with no affinity for any one industry over another.
1955--born in Denmark
1978--Master of Science in Engineering
1986--Advisory System Engineer, IBM
2001--Product Manager, Intel
2010--Master of Business Administration (Henley)
He has ten years of cross-industry management consulting experience obtained in small ICT-oriented professional services firms. Since 2010 he has seen himself as a general businessman with no affinity for any one industry over another.
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Saving the Karamazovs
on Aug. 21, 2013
Review by Martin Mosfeldt of Gary Goldstick’s “Saving the Karamazovs” Business Fiction should be cerebral with a professional perspective, and Gary Goldstick’s “Saving the Karamazovs” represents the genre superbly. I enjoyed the read. Good fun, and realistic, too. The story’s main characters are American baby boomers in their late thirties/forties, which puts us at the time of the Gulf war. That generation’s hedonism is dramatized through extramarital sex in public places and driving under the influence, but with an eye to today’s norms as in no drugs. Besides being an author, Gary is also a management consultant. His concern for reputation is apparent in the character development, which, Gary’s clients will be relieved to know, is based on Dostoyevsky’s Karamazov Brothers. That being said, the borderline psychopathy exhibited by senior management when under stress is captured right on the spot. The story’s hero started with an engineering degree, went on to manage engineers in the family’s enterprise “National”, then went to Harvard for a business degree, and is a partner in a Wall Street private equity firm. Dire circumstances recall him to National, and the company itself becomes the story’s protagonist. Middle-of-the-road Business Fiction! The subsequent plotting is where this book stands out. Gary’s thirty years of business experience shines through, in that the story is error-free and thus believable by businesspeople. This narrative could have happened, and where it overlaps with reality, it did, right down to Intel’s surprise pullout from memory chips at that time. When family values come up against corporate articles of declaration, relatives become antagonists, and fear of loosing causes first one, and then another stakeholder to press the panic button. Emotion shown through the characters’ dialogue becomes a dominant theme, and motivations like suspicion, guilt and anxiety, but also loyalty, take over. The tale ends neat, logically and with a surprise educational bonus in the area of psychology, over and above what Dostoyevsky’s masterpiece delivered. My only reservation is, that Gary’s women characters tend to be wet dreams that think and act like management consultants when they’re not cooking or screwing. Who will be entertained and educated by this book? Perhaps someone confronted with a dilemma of money and family? It’s an easier read than Dostoyevsky, and notwithstanding the women thing it’s more up-to-date. Gary’s knowledge is true, and it may teach a real leader to clean up the mess when reason is hijacked by emotion. Martin Mosfeldt is a Danish businessman and author. He owns and manages several companies and holds degrees in engineering and business administration. More information about Martin is published on the Web, http://www.amazon.com/Martin-Mosfeldt/e/B00BS96DGM.