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 Biography: Dr. Jonas Ridderstråle 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. Ridderstråle 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. Ridderstråle 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 Nordström) at number thirteen internationally and he has been recognized as the leading European business guru. Dr. Ridderstråle 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 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 Nordström, 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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Programs: FUNKY BUSINESS: Talent makes capital dance - Jonas Ridderstrale launches a manifesto for the new world of business. Forget what has come before; this is the future for organizations and leaders. We are all condemned to freedom. We cannot delegate the understanding of what drives tomorrow's society to politicians and executives. The funky future is here and now it's all up to you. The new world is different. Forget the old world order. Forget what you knew yesterday. The revolutionary reality is that 1.3 kilograms of brain holds the key to all our futures. Competitive advantage comes from being different. Increasingly, difference comes form the way people think rather than what organizations make. Today, the only thing that makes capital dance is talent. In such times we cannot have business as usual--we need funky business. Technology, institutions and values are being subverted and overturned. They are the triad, the inter--linked drivers of change, transforming each other and creating a global village of turbulance, tribes and fusion. We are deregulating life for ourselves and our children. Whether you like it or not, we are all condemned to freedom-- the freedom to choose. KARAOKE CAPITALISM: Jonas Ridderstrale launches a new manifesto for how to make it in the world of Karaoke Capitalism. The karaoke economy is dominated by individuals with endless choice. The trouble for business is that the karaoke club is also home to institutionalized. Copy-cats abound. Only imagination and innovation place societies, organizations and individuals center-stage. Karaoke Capitalism is a call to arms. With his unorthodox combination of academic rigor, forceful logic and funky free-thinking he re-writes the rules for revolutionaries. This is a true work-out for the wits. He teaches us how to successfully compete on competencies, create capitalism with character, and how to have a great life while also making a living. |
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