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Nordic Business Forum 2014 Begins Tomorrow

The annual Nordic Business Forum seminar will begin tomorrow on October 9 at the Exhibition & Convention Center in Helsinki, Finland. The two day seminar gathers some of the world’s top thinkers including Jim Collins, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sir Ken Robinson and Tony Fernandes just to name a few. The seminar is organized now for the […]

MTV Broadcasting Live from Nordic Business Forum 2014

The Finnish media company MTV will be broadcasting post-presentation discussions live from the MTV Live Stage from Nordic Business Forum 2014. Some of the seminar speakers and the most interesting seminar guests will join Peter Nyman on the MTV Live Stage. All the MTV Live Stage discussions can be followed free-of-charge at www.mtv.fi. Check the preliminary schedule […]

Networking Supercharged

Business seminars are a great setting for networking with potential partners, clients and other similar-spirited people. In fact, networking is one of the biggest motives to participate in business seminars. The right attitude towards networking is not “what I can gain” from the new relationship, but a deep interest in “what I can learn from this person”. It […]

Ask for Feedback – It Can Take You Forward

Aiming at Excellence in Customer Service – This is a fifth and the final part of the blog series in which we’ve explored how to achieve the world’s best customer service. In this blog series we’ve gone through the ideas behind our customer service, what it takes to build up a great customer experience and […]

Make Your Team Work

Aiming at Excellence in Customer Service – This is a fourth part of a blog series in which we explore how to achieve the world’s best customer service. When considering the employee experience from a leader’s perspective, one great advice that comes to mind is from last year’s Nordic Business Forum 2013 when Jack Welch […]

The Employee Experience

Aiming at Excellence in Customer Service – This is a third part of a blog series in which we explore how to achieve the world’s best customer service. You’ve probably all bumped into customer service people who don’t seem to be enjoying their work that much. You can recognize such a person pretty easily from […]

The Leadership Secrets of Manchester United Legend Sir Alex Ferguson

The host of BBC ”CEO Guru” Steve Tappin has been studying the leadership secrets of the most successful football manager in the history. He published a list of Sir Alex´s leadership secrets. Here is a list of his seven leadership secrets, which I summarized to a sentence or two. It’s good to know that Sir Alex […]

Hard Work, Risk-taking and Lucky Strikes

Take a risk. Otherwise you cannot build a company that is the market leader in one category. In 2006 Talouselämä newspaper ran an article on Sami Inkinen, the founder of online real estate marketing site, Trulia. Almost six years later Inkinen steps aside from the operative lead of the company now employing 400 people. Trust […]

30 Under 30 Stars in a Hot Seat Session at Nordic Business Forum 2014

Pavel Durov, the number one on the Northern European 30 under 30 ranking, will be one of the debaters of the Hot Seat Session at Nordic Business Forum 2014. The Hot Seat Session is a panel discussion with four 30 under 30 stars including Pavel Durov, Vladimir Funtikov, Linda Liukas and Anna Nyboe. The theme […]

Nordic Business Report Published

The third issue of Nordic Business Report is published today in Finland together with Kauppalehti Optio. The magazine is also available for free download at www.nbreport.com. The magazine will be also published tomorrow in Estonia together with Äripäev, Estonian’s biggest financial media, and in the beginning of September in Russia together with Chief Time, high quality business magazine in Saint […]