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Dr. Jonas Ridderstrale is at the forefront of the new generation of European-based business gurus. He cuts through the madness and hyperbole surrounding the global economy and his appeal is truly global. Jonas' uncompromising, imaginative and decidedly fresh take on contemporary business life makes him one of the world's most sought after and appreciated speakers. Forget dry theories, Jonas' ideas work. He makes things happen. Dr. Ridderstrale practices what he so persuasively preaches.

Jonas has attained tremendous media coverage throughout the world. He has appeared on numerous business news television shows including CNN's program Global Office for an interview on the ideas behind his books. Dr. Ridderstrale has also been featured in Fortune, Fast Company, Time Magazine, Financial Times, Stern, Paris Match, and many other publications worldwide. The 2007 Thinkers 50, a bi-annual global ranking of management thinkers, ranked him (and his colleague Nordstroem) at number thirteen internationally and he has been recognized as the leading European business guru.

Dr. Ridderstrale holds an MBA and a PhD in international business and has been recognized as Sweden's outstanding young academic of the year. Formerly, he was an assistant professor at the Stockholm School of Economics where he was responsible for the school's Advanced Management Program - a five week top-management program that attracts the elite of Scandinavian executives. Jonas is currently a visiting professor at Ashridge Business School in the UK. His research focuses on new organizational models and leadership styles in the information age and has been published in leading academic journals, including Business Strategy Review, Organization Science and CritcalEYE Magazine. Jonas contributed to the best-selling Financial Times Handbook of Management and Business: The Ultimate Resource. He is co-author with Mark Wilcox of the book, Re-energizing the Corporation: How Leaders Make Change Happen. He is on the editorial board of The Capstone Business Encyclopaedia. He also acts as an advisor and consultant to a number of multinational corporations.

Jonas is co-author of two globally celebrated and international best selling books. Karaoke Capitalism: Management for Mankind, a manifesto for how to make it in the new world of commerce and, Funky Business: Talent Makes Capital Dance, ranked at number 16 in a Bloomsbury survey of the best business books of all time. With his colleague, Kjell Nordstroem, he recently co-authored, Funky Business Forever, the long awaited update to the international bestseller. Funky Business Forever takes a look back on the later half of the millenniums first decade and provides evolved thinking and commentary in a way that is truly funky and down to business.

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