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Speed of Change Accelerates, Business Principles Remain

by Jukka Niemelä Mr. Tom Peters, a best-selling author of many business books, says most of the principles in his first masterpiece In Search of Excellence (1982) have held up “pretty well.” Most certainly they have. University students and young […]

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Persona in Canalibus

by Petri Parvinen Contemporary research on the efficiency and effectiveness of sales hovers above two key questions: adaptive interaction and value added.  Researchers and managers alike have noticed that the match between the customer’s and the salesperson’s personalities and interaction […]

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Selling Is Purposeful Work

As we know, people commonly avoid sales. Sadly, the entrepreneurs themselves are the best ones to avoid it. It is easy to hire someone else to do the “dirty work”, even though selling, especially in the beginning, is the most […]

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We Have Got the Talent, Let’s Sell It!

Last year, foreign trade accounted for 40 % of Finland’s GDP. We are a small country with an open economy. We have benefitted greatly from the opening of world trade. Three factors speak in favour of that trend continuing further. […]

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She Decided to Prove Them Wrong

by Jukka Niemelä Mrs. Soulaima Gourani is one of the two female business thinkers who made it in Nordic Thinkers 20 list. It is hard to believe her math teacher told her she will not get very far in her […]

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Nordic Business Report Will Be Published on August 16th

Nordic Business Report’s 2013 issue will be published on August 16th with brilliant content. The cover stories are Nordic Thinkers 20 list and a special interview with Jack Welch on leadership. Nordic Thinkers 20 list sums up twenty greatest Nordic business minds. The list […]

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Doing Good Is Good Business Sense

When I started as an entrepreneur in 2003, all I saw was an interesting opportunity and a means to make money. I had never thought of business as a way of doing good or changing the world into a better […]