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 Biography: Amid the madness and hyperbole surrounding the new economy, Dr. Kjell A. Nordström is a guru of the new world of business. The 2007 Thinkers 50, the world's ranking of management thinkers, ranked Nordstrom and his partner Dr. Jonas Ridderstråle at number 13 in the world. His dynamic style makes him a highly appreciated speaker. A 20-year veteran, he is a sought-after advisor and consultant to several large multinationals through out the world and has even worked with Tony Blair. Kjell holds an Economic Licentiate degree and a doctoral degree from the Stockholm School of Economics. He is presently an Associate Professor at the Institute of International Business (IIB) at the Stockholm School of Economics. Kjell is one of the founders of the schools most prestigious management programs, "The Advanced Management Program - AMP". AMP is a five-week top-management program that attracts the elite of Scandinavian executives. His research and consulting focus on various areas of corporate strategy, multinational corporations and globalization. Kjell has attained tremendous media coverage throughout the world. He has appeared on numerous business news television shows including CNN's program Global Office. He has published numerous articles on the internationalization process of firms and has been recognized as Sweden's outstanding young academic of the year. Kjell 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. Funky Business has also been featured on CNN and CNBC, and articles have appeared in Fortune, Fast Company, Time Magazine, Financial Times, Paris Match. It has also been translated into more than 31 languages. With his colleague, Jonas Ridderstråle, 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 - Dr. Kjell A. Nordstrom 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 turbulence, 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: Dr. Kjell A. Nordstrom 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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