Dr. Ridderstråle uncompromising, imaginative and decidedly fresh take on contemporary business life makes him one of the world’s most sought after and appreciated speakers

Jonas Ridderstrale is at the forefront of the new generation of European-based business gurus. The 2007 Thinkers 50, the world's first ranking of management thinkers, ranked Ridderstrale and his colleague, Dr. Kjell Nordstrom, at number 13 in the world and number one in Europe.

His uncompromising, imaginative and decidedly funky take on contemporary business life has made Jonas one of todays most sought after speakers. Dr. Ridderstrale practices what he so persuasively preaches. He is an advisor, lecturer and consultant to a number of international corporations and is also on the board of several companies.

He states: “Traditional roles, jobs, skills, ways of doing things, insights, strategies, aspirations, fears and expectations no longer count…. We cannot have business as usual. We need business as unusual. We need different business, We need innovative business. We need unpredictable business. We need surprising business.”

The successful organisations will be different too, unafraid of difference or creativity: They will seek emotion. The meaning of e-commerce must be changed to emotional commerce. Employees should be hired because they have some of that emotion. They can then be trained to carry out specific skills. They should be sought in unusual ways at pop concerts even, far removed from the traditional “milk round”.

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. Ridderstråle 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. Ridderstråle 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.

Ridderstråle is the author of three business books together with Kjell A. Nordström. Their latest book, 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.

The previous book Karaoke Capitalism: Management for Mankind is a globally celebrated manifesto on how to make it in the new world of commerce. . Individuals with endless choice dominate the karaoke economy. The trouble for business is that the karaoke club is also home to institutionalized imitation. Copycats abound.

The first book, Funky Business: Talent makes capital dance quickly became an international bestseller, selling more than 300,000 copies. The book was recently ranked at number 16 in a Bloomsbury survey of the best business books of all time.

Jonas Ridderstråle has attained tremendous media coverage throughout the world. he appeared on CNN's program "Global Office" for a long interview on the ideas behind the books. Dr. Ridderstråle has also been featured in Fortune, Fast Company, Time Magazine, Financial Times, Stern, Paris Match, and many other publications worldwide.

Topics

•    Re-energizing the Corporation
•    The Future Firm
•    Talent makes Capital Dance - How to Thrive in a New World
•    Life in a Global Village
•    Strategic Management and International Business
•    Formulating Strategies and Organisational Solutions
•    Global Innovation
•    Funky Business


Books

Re-energizing the Corporation: How Leaders make Change Happen, co-authored with Mark Wilcox
Re-energizing The Corporation is built on the groundbreaking 3e leadership model which makes sense of the three Es of Envisioning, Engaging and Executing. By understanding and following the model, you will be able to create compelling pictures of the future of your organization; build a following of individuals committed to getting the vision into reality; and maximize team performance to deliver on your dream.

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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