Jonas Ridderstrale

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Dr. JONAS RIDDERSTRÅLE is at the forefront of the new generation of European-based business gurus.   His uncompromising, imaginative and decidedly funky take on contemporary business life has made Jonas one of today's most sought after speakers. Jonas 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.

Academia

Jonas Ridderstråle's day job is as an assistant professor at the Centre for Advanced Studies in Leadership at the Stockholm School of Economics. Jonas has Ph.D. and an MBA from the same school. He has run the School's Advanced Management Program, a five-week top-management program that attracts the elite of Scandinavian business leaders. Jonas was recently recognized as Sweden's outstanding young academic of the year. His current research focuses on the new organizational models and the leadership styles in the information age and has been published in leading academic journals, magazines and newspapers, including Business Strategy Review, Organization Science and the Financial Times. 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.

Funky Business

The book Funky Business - Talent makes capital dance (co-authored with Kjell A. Nordström) is a manifesto of what our time requires from business firms and their leaders. The book has been featured on CNN and the CNBC, and appeared in Fortune, Fast Company, Time Magazine, Financial Times, Paris Match, etc. and is an international best-seller. So far, it has been translated into more than 31 languages. Both Amazon.co.uk and Management General rated Funky Business as one of the five best business books of 2000. The book was recently ranked at number 16 in a survey of the best business book of all time.

Karoake Capitalism

The book Karoake Capitalism: Management for mankind (co-authored with Kjell A Nordström), is a new manifesto for how to make it in the world of Karaoke Capitalism. Individuals with endless choice dominate the karaoke economy. The troubles for business is that the karaoke club is also home to institutionalized imitation. Copycats abound. Only imagination and innovation place societies, organizations and individuals centre-stage. Karaoke Capitalism is a call to arms. Jonas and Kjell 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. In March 2004 the authors appeared on CNN's program "Global Office" for a long interview, recorded in Stockholm, on the ideas behind Karaoke Capitalism.

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His uncompromising, imaginative and decidedly funky take on contemporary business life has made Jonas one of today's most sought after speakers.

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