5Oct2022
Globalization has become so much the norm over the last half-century that it can be easy to forget that doing business with people from a country at the other end of the world is, well, doing business with people from […]
Petter Stordalen is a self-made businessman who started out selling strawberries for his father as a child and is now a highly successful investor, hotel owner, environmentalist, and property developer. He is the CEO and owner of investment holding company […]
Forget everything you think you know about your customers – facilitating easy or “lazy” decisions goes much further than customer satisfaction (CSAT) or a net promoter score (NPS). This was the key message delivered by Zoe Chance, Professor of Marketing […]
25Aug2022
“Future-Focused Leadership Involves the Ability to Decode How People Think, Communicate, and Get Things Done Around the World.” – Erin Meyer
by: Nordic Business Forum
Erin Meyer is a Professor of Management Practice in the Organizational Behaviour Department at INSEAD and specializes in the field of cross-cultural management, organizational culture, intercultural negotiations, and multi-cultural leadership. She’s also the co-author of No Rules Rules and the […]
by: World economy, change, strategy, team, culture, and the list goes on. Business leaders face multiple simultaneous challenges on many fronts, but what are the most crucial things for leaders to focus on going forward? We asked many of our Nordic […]
On 13th of June, we got together with our friends at Oslo Business Forum, Amsterdam Business Forum, and Randstad Norway to talk about psychological safety. During the webinar, Amy Edmondson, the world’s #1 management thinker and Harvard Professor, explained how […]
9Jun2022
“Influence is the Key Skill of a Leader, and Essential for Bringing Any Great Idea to Life” – Zoe Chance
by: Nordic Business Forum
Zoe Chance is a Yale School of Management professor who studies and teaches persuasion and decision-making through the lens of behavioral economics. Chance’s new book Influence Is Your Superpower shares research-based, practical influence strategies. Zoe will step on stage at […]
At our webinar on the 8th of June, Iza Sia Login, CEO of Reemina Academy and co-founder of the tech unicorn Outfit7, and Mo Gawdat, former Chief Business Officer at GoogleX, explained how raising joy across the entire company is […]
At an Oslo Business Forum and Thommessen event in the beginning of May, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, a mathematical statistician, former option trader, and risk analyst, engaged in a discussion with Frode Strand-Nielsen, Managing Partner at FSN Capital. During the session, […]
7Apr2022
“We Must Never Forget Our Most Important Resource—People and Culture” – Petter Stordalen
by: Nordic Business Forum
Petter Stordalen is a Norwegian investor, hotel owner, property developer, and environmentalist. He is the CEO and owner of the investment holding company Strawberry Group and the owner of one of the largest hotel chains in the Nordics, Nordic Choice […]
23Mar2022
“Transparent and Vulnerable Is the Kind of Future-Focused Leadership We Need” – Amy Edmondson
by: Nordic Business Forum
Amy Edmondson is the Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at the Harvard Business School. She’s a renowned expert on organizational learning and leadership and the #1 ranked management thinker in the world by Thinkers50 (2021). Her most recent book, […]
Feedback can be the key to not only developing your team but also yourself. However, as we all know, giving and receiving feedback can sometimes be extremely difficult. As this is arguably one of the most important leadership skills, we […]