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Growth Is Not the Solution to the Problem

I attended an unbelievably good four-day intensive business administration course in late March in Austin, Texas. The trainer throughout the four full days was Keith Cunningham. Keith is a really successful entrepreneur from Texas. He made fortunes in Cable-TV and real estate businesses already in his twenties. As these are very capital intensive businesses, he […]

’30 Under 30′ of Northern Europe in the Next Nordic Business Report

Nordic Business Report will be published for the third time in August 2014. This year’s issue will include high quality articles and columns on two underlying themes, Marketing ideas and Leadership ideas. As in the previous years, also this year we will publish a ranking of successful business thinkers. This time the ranking includes the […]

Inspiration for Two Tour This Week in Finnish Schools

Nordic Business Forum Oy holds Inspiration for Two theme days this week in upper comprehensive schools, upper secondary schools and vocational schools around Finland. The event is part of Nordic Business Forum’s nationwide voluntary tour, which aims to reach over 5300 youngsters and promote tolerance and intrapreneurial mindset. Nordic Business Forum Oy has made a […]

Does Your Company Have a Story?

Before I was taken over by expensive Hugo Boss suits and the boring life of a consultant, I wore flip flops and dirty clothes and spent my life driving around with an old and crappy Lada from the 80’s. It was painted black with red flames and decorated with chrome skulls. This beautiful piece of […]

Business Summit 2014 – The Power of Stories

The fourth annual Business Summit will be organized on June 3rd 2014 in Helsinki in cooperation with Nordic Business Forum and Boardman 2020. The concept of the event is now renewed and this year’s theme is The Power of Stories. The event offers ideas on how to build a great corporate story and how stories […]

International Tickets Still Left for NBF 2014 – Tickets for Finland Sold Out

The ticket sales for Nordic Business Forum 2014 has been amazing. Now almost seven months prior to the event, we have sold over 5,150 tickets of which 600 to international guests. The total number of seats in the event is 5,300. There are only around 130 tickets left for international customers to Seating Section 2. International customers […]

Take a Chance and Be Creative

When was the last time you were wrong about something? Did you tell anyone about it? Probably you didn’t as people tend to be afraid of being wrong. We most likely avoid it whenever possible and if we ever notice we’re wrong, we try everything not to be revealed. Constant fear of being wrong can […]

Official Sponsors of Nordic Business Forum 2014

We are happy to announce the official sponsors of Nordic Business Forum 2014! The main sponsors of the event are PwC, Nordea, DHL Express, Lexus and Elo & LähiTapiola with a joint sponsorship. Other official sponsors are University of Jyväskylä – Avance Executive Education, Semio Oy, Tekes, Reaktor, Suomen Yrittäjät, Enfo, World Vision, SEFE – The […]

What REALLY Works?

Management is the big thing of the last century. It has come all the way from Fredrick Taylor to Peter Drucker and finally, to today´s pop psychology. But what really works in management? Or is this ”art of getting things done” just a bubble when everything just depends on the context where management actually happens? […]

How Can We Make Better Choices in Life?

In 1985 the president of Intel, Andy Grove, faced a very difficult choice to make: should they stop the business with memory chips. For a while the company had been the world´s only source of memory chips and the whole business had been built on memory devices. Meanwhile, one Intel team had developed a new […]