12Oct2022
At age 34, Dutch historian and author Rutger Bregman is also already widely known for his books on history, philosophy, and economics, such as Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World. His articles have also been published […]
There is the little mote of sentience that is you, and there is everything else in existence. The medium through which we make things happen, how we interact with people to bring about favorable outcomes, is influence, yet many of […]
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
Garry Kasparov – War in Europe
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
by: You’ve probably heard the famous saying by Heraclitus: “The only constant in life is change.” And during the past few years, you have probably witnessed it to be true. But what are the factors that affect and change leadership? What […]
by: 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 […]