Business as usual is boring, and cannot attract either talented workers or loyal customers, say Stockholm School of Economics iconoclasts Nordstrom (international business) and Ridderstrate (leadership). They throw suggestions out on how to make both work and business creative, inspired, surprising, and maybe even worth the effort. Indexes seem to be part of the old world they have jettisoned. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Funky Business: Talent Makes Capital Dance

Business & Money

Nordström, Kjell

Ridderstråle, Jonas

Management & Leadership

Financial Times Management

In the best-selling Funky Business Kjell Nordstrom and Jonas Ridderstrale launch a manifesto for difference in business. Move it. In 1995, 1000 new soft drinks were launched on the Japanese market. A year later, 1% of them were still for sale. Move it fast. If you are driving a 1990 model car, approximately six years were spent developing it. Today, most companies do that job in two years. Move it faster. At Hewlett Packard, the majority revenues come from products that did not exist a year age. Move it now. In Tokyo, you can order a customized Toyota on Monday and be driving it on Friday. More products, more markets, more people, more competition. In a world of abundance and excess, competition is total and competition is personal. Difference rules. 
If you think about it, most of what your business does could be bought from someone else using the Yellow Pages or an Internet search engine. How are you going to be attractive? By being more efficient? By doing it cheaper? Come on! This is the age of time and talent, where we are selling time and talent, exploiting time and talent, hiring time and talent, packaging time and talent. Today, the "critical resources" wear shoes and walk out the door around 5.30pm every day. Karl Marx was right; the workers should own the critical means of production - it's small, gray and weighs about 1.3 kilograms. It will move markets and it will make capital dance. Only talent will allow you to be unique, to escape business as usual. In this world we need business as unusual. We need innovative business. We need unpredictable business. We need Funky Business. This is business book as unusual.

Nordstrom, Kjelle A.

Economics

Ft Pr

"If you loved Funky Business as much as I did, you'll love Karaoke Capitalism. Weird? Most certainly. Different? Most definitely. But, if you want to re-imagine your organization and your career it's a thought-provoking place to start." 
 Tom Peters The creators will thrive at the expense of the copycats. Express yourself. In the long-awaited follow up to their internationally acclaimed Funky Business, Kjell Nordström and Jonas RidderstrSlehave delivered a thought-provoking, workout for the wits in Karaoke Capitalism. A book that challenges individuals, businesses and nations to create originals rather than cover versions. Management guru Tom Peters said "If you loved Funky Business as much as I did, you¿ll love 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 imitation. Copy-cats abound. Only imagination and innovation place societies, organizations and individuals center-stage. Karaoke Capitalism is a call to arms. Kjell and Jonas are rebels with a cause. With their unorthodox combination of academic rigor, forceful logic and funky free-thinking they once again re-write the rules for revolutionaries. This is a true work-out for the wits. The book teaches us how to successfully compete on competencies, create capitalism with character, and how to have a great life while also making a living. It is required reading for all those wanting to be a first-rate version of themselves rather than a second-rate version of someone else. Karaoke Capitalism - create or cover? Karaoke Capitalism is a hitchhiker¿s guide to the galaxies of business. and practice is that business schools, benchmarking and best practice have transformed the entire world of commerce into a super-group of karaoke copying companies. And imitating someone else will never get you to the top ¿ merely to the middle. Our societies are shaped by the glorious trio of technologies, institutions and galaxies of commerce. It is a book about people ¿ management for mankind ¿ the individuals prepared to grasp the microphone and express themselves. You have the rights. Now, you must learn to live them. The karaoke reality is a cosmopolitan club with endless individual choice but also a paltry place for institutionalized imitation. The dirty little secret of management theory values. Changes have now made abnormal the new normal. The bubble economy has given way to the double economy. Forget about appealing to the average. Success is a question of exploring the extremes. Corporations are no longer in control. Modern companies are facing the prospects of a two-front war: held hostage by talent and under siege by consumers. The winners know that wealth is created with wisdom, but to remain competitive they are forced to create knowledge networks that pose new and fundamentally different demands on the organization. In a world of economic Darwinism, survival is a question of being fit or sexy ¿ competing on models and moods. Fitness boils down to using market imperfections to your advantage. Masters of mood exploit the imperfections of man by seducing or sedating consumer. Excellent companies re-invent innovation and re-energize the corporation. To develop the character of capitalism we have to accept individual responsibility. Look inside. Do you want to be a first-rate version of yourself or a second-rate version of someone else? "The Swedish economists, who shot to the top of the management guru charts in 2001 with their era-defining book, Funky Business, are back" Director magazine Kjell Nordstrom &amp; Jonas RidderstraleDr. Jonas Ridderstrale and Dr. Kjell A Nordström are at the forefront of the new generation of business gurus. They cut through the madness and hyperbole surrounding the economy and their appeal is truly global. Jonas and Kjell have been featured on CNN and CNBC. They have appeared in Fortune, Fast Company, Time Magazine, Financial Times, Paris Match, and many other publications worldwide. The 2003 Thinkers 50, the bi-annual ranking of management thinkers, ranked Nordström and RidderstrSle at number 21. Kjell¿s and Jonas¿ uncompromising and decidedly fresh take on contemporary business life makes them two of the world¿s most sought after speakers. They also practice what they so persuasively preach. From their Stockholm base, Jonas and Kjell act as advisors and consultants to a number of multi- national corporations and are on the board of several companies. They both hold PhDs in international business from the Stockholm School of Economics and have been recognized as Sweden¿s outstanding young academics of the year. Their previous book, Funky Business: Talent makes capital dance quickly became an international bestseller, selling more than 250,000 copies. The book was recently ranked at number 16 in a survey of the greatest business books of all time. Praise for Funky Business "Funky Business is the antidote to bland writing and bland thinking." Tom Peters "It's the best un-businesslike business book I have ever read ....Funky Business is less of a business handbook and more of a religion. It should be treated like a chain letter - read it and pass it onto 10 other people." (or even better, tell 10 other people to buy it) . - Human Resources "Funky Business is a better book than most novels but it is not for bedtime. It will jerk you out of your complacency and make you question your very existence. It will transform your brain." - Customer Management "Funky Business is rigorously researched, witty and intelligent, and overflows with provocative ideas." Business Voice "Funky Business - the groovy bible of modern business philosophy" - Red magazine

Karaoke Capitalism: Managing for Mankind (Financial Times Series)

Pearson Education Canada

We all know that the rules by which business is conducted have changed. But by how much? The dot.commers who threw out the playbook and tried to reinvent everything crashed and burned. Back-to-basics and execution are refrains reverberating down corporate hallways. And yet there is still a sense of unease. Jonas Ridderstróale and Kjell Nordstróm, the outspoken authors of the international bestseller, Funky Business, present a provocative analysis of the social and cultural forces that are defining the business landscape―in particular, the fundamental relationships between employers and employees and between companies and customers.
Covering a huge terrain―from the impact of high tech to the ever-widening gaps between the haves and the have-nots, and with references from Adam Smith to Janis Joplin―the authors bring into focus the challenges of business leadership in a world increasingly defined by individualism. Karaoke capitalism refers to the philosophy of imitation, engrained into the corporate mindset by such popular concepts as benchmarking and best practice. For Ridderstróale and Nordstróm, the only way to survive is to chuck convention, to embrace your company's individual personality and promote it through everything you do, constantly honing what works and abandoning what doesn't. Ultimately, the authors argue that armed with imagination it is possible to sustain profitable businesses while contributing to the well-being of customers, communities, and the society at large. Visit the authors' Web sites at www.karaokecapitalism.com and www.funkybusiness.com.

Karaoke Capitalism: Daring To Be Different In A Copycat World

Nordstróm, Kjell A.

Praeger Pub Text

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.

Re-energizing the Corporation: How Leaders Make Change Happen

Wilcox, Mark

Jossey-Bass

The leading companies of the past twenty years have all harnessed the power of information to gain competitive advantage. But as access to big data becomes ubiquitous, it can no longer guarantee a leg up. Fast/Forward makes the case that we are entering a new era in which firms that understand the limits of 1s and 0s will take the lead. Whereas the industrial age saw the rise of bureaucracy, and the information age has been described as a meritocracy, we are witnessing the rise of adhocracy. In uncertain, rapidly-changing times, adhocracic organizations scan the horizon for winning opportunities. Then, instead of questing after more analysis, they respond with agility by making smart, intuitive decisions. Combining decisive action with emotional conviction, future-facing firms seize the day. Fast/Forward paints the big picture of a new approach to strategy and provides the necessary playbook to make your company fit for the future.

Fast/Forward: Make Your Company Fit for the Future

Birkinshaw, Julian

Stanford Business Books

Funky business

PRENTICE/HALL

Book by Ridderstrale, Jonas, Nordstrom, Kjell A.

Karaoke capitalim: Management para la humanidad

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Alhambra

Fue amor a primera vista. Cuando se nos ocurrio el titulo Funky Business supimos que habiamos encontrado algo: definia en un eslogan impecable y memorable aquello sobre lo que habiamos estado hablando los ultimos anos. Y funciono. La gente entendio el significado del negocio funky. Por desgracia algunos lo hicieron sin leer el libro. Otras personas en mas de 50 paises de todo el mundo se armaron de valor sacaron de los atiborrados estantes de libros de empresa un ejemplar escrito por dos academicos suecos de cabeza afeitada y se atrevieron a comprarlo. El resultado es que Funky Business ha sido traducido ya a mas de treinta idiomas: tres mas que nuestras disertaciones doctorales combinadas. Funky Business Forever trata sobre todo aquello que es nuevo en la economia y como desde el ano 2000 ano en el que se publico Funky Business ha cambiado el mundo. Tabla de contenidos Prefacio: Hecho para explotar Tiempos Funky Las fuerzas del Funk La aldea Funky Funky S.A. Tu Funky Sentirse Funky

FUNKY BUSINESS FOREVER: Cómo disfrutar con el capitalismo

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Funky Business: Talent Makes Capital Dance

Funky Business: Talent Makes Capital Dance

Karaoke Capitalism: Managing for Mankind (Financial Times Series)

Karaoke Capitalism: Daring To Be Different In A Copycat World

Re-energizing the Corporation: How Leaders Make Change Happen

Fast/Forward: Make Your Company Fit for the Future

Funky business

Karaoke capitalim: Management para la humanidad

FUNKY BUSINESS FOREVER: Cómo disfrutar con el capitalismo