Innovation is a big word and is thrown around everywhere. But how many times have you thought about the various levels of innovation and how they differ? The things that work on one level may not work on another. Here […]
How can leaders navigate today’s tough job market with its shifting power dynamic between employers and employees? By seizing the opportunity to focus on purpose, meaningful work, and empowered leadership to create an engaged workforce. That’s the word from Kristel […]
How can the world halt its seemingly endless lurch from one crisis to another, especially when fragile supply chains, spiraling energy prices, proliferating authoritarianism, and Russia’s war with Ukraine impede our efforts to improve global stability? As Nobel Prize-winning economist […]
6Oct2022
Russian chess grandmaster and political activist, Garry Kasparov, has been an acclaimed speaker at Nordic Business Forum before. He recalled that back in 2015, some of his predictions and warnings weren’t taken seriously enough. “It is no longer hypothetical. It’s […]
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 […]
Historian and author Rutger Bregman’s basic question to those in attendance at the Nordic Business Forum is this: are people inherently selfish, or are people inherently helpful? When put to a vote, the majority of the audience (58%) believes that […]
How do we create and lead organizations that thrive in times of uncertainty? According to the world’s number one management thinker and Harvard professor Amy Edmondson, it’s not about erring on the side of caution, it’s not about demanding flawlessly […]
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 […]
Duncan Wardle wants you to be more creative, and to be more creative, you have to think differently. You have to get outside your comfort zone, seek out new perspectives, and challenge yourself in new and unusual ways. “The opposite […]
Jitske Kramer is a corporate anthropologist. Contrary to what many people think, she argued that anthropology holds vital information that can help leaders in all types of organizations to create the future they want. Why? Because “we shape the future […]
Leaders are often intimidated by the notion of creativity. This is because we often see creativity as something novel and reserved to a small group of talented individuals. When we think of creativity, we think of music, the arts, poetry—yet […]
25Aug2022
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 […]
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