Just as ancient Vikings took the world by storm with swords and fast ships, modern Scandinavians have done the same with such innovative companies as Volvo, IKEA, and Absolut. This accessible and witty business study reveals how Nordic companies are making a huge impact on the corporate landscape and what lessons other businesses can learn from them. Unlike many European and American companies, the Scandinavians operate by focusing on an original idea and developing a unique way of turning it into reality. For these businesses, biggest is almost never best, competition is nonsense, and money does not make the world go round—despite what contemporary corporate logic might say.

The Viking Manifesto: The Scandinavian Approach to Business and Blasphemy

Business & Money

Strid, Steve

Andreasson, Claes

Biography & History

Cyan Communications

Practical advice is combined with business acumen in this concise guide to starting a small business. As the number of small businesses continues to grow each year, inexperienced entrepreneurs need help distinguishing themselves from their competitors in order to survive—and hopefully thrive—in the world of commerce. With easily accessible tips and advice, this informative handbook illustrates how to get and stay motivated, develop a foolproof business plan, and sell products, providing upstart companies with a hefty leg up on their competition.

The Rules of Entrepreneurship (The Rules of . . . Series)

Yeung, Rob

Business Development & Entrepreneurship

In the corporate environment where conspiracy rules, this guide exposes the power games played in the workplace and reveals strategies for not only surviving office politics but thriving. In East Asia, the rat is considered a symbol of resourcefulness, good luck, and wealth, making it an appropriate symbol for those people who have mastered the use of office politics for their own gain. With the rat as a guide, lessons inspire office workers to maneuver the proverbial workplace sewer. Witty, no-holds-barred writing makes this book entertaining and educational for employers and employees alike.

The Way Of The Rat: A Survival Guide To Office Politics

Schrijvers, Joep P. M.

Business Culture

This accessible critique examines the advantages and disadvantages of cosmetic procedures and reconstructions, including the key issues of treatment and aftercare. Discussing the psychological issues of surgery and self-image with accurate descriptions of the most popular procedures and what outcomes to expect, as well as individual patient accounts, this introductory reference offers guidance to those interested in undergoing a procedure and to medical students learning the technicalities of the trade.

Make Me Beautiful: An Expert Guide To Making The Right Choices In Cosmetic Surgery

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Huang, Martin

Beauty, Grooming, & Style

A former company executive explains the guiding philosophies of the global retail giant ALDI, whose 50-year history and successful spinoff Trader Joe's has made it a corporate leader on the scale of Wal-Mart and General Electric. Simplicity, not discount, is discussed as the answer to the company's driving question Why should customers visit your store? The corporate culture, philosophy, working principles, and organizational methods of ALDI are explained as the major factors for the company's extraordinary growth and success. This insider's perspective on the company offers lessons on consumer retailing and management that will be useful to aspiring business professionals.

Bare Essentials: The Aldi Way To Retail Success

Brandes, Dieter

Industries

With the growth of spin and the loss of faith in business leaders, a business that follows the strategic principles in this guide can build trust among customers, suppliers, shareholders, and employees and can maintain an increasingly competitive advantage in the marketplace. Effective cooperation and management requires trust to successfully balance other aspects of the commercial life: reciprocity, contracts, economy of speed, innovation, reliability, and commitment. Managers, executives, and entrepreneurial decision makers will find practical advice and corporate exercises to facilitate building trust and help to avoid situations that destroy trust.

Trust: The Best Way To Manage

Sprenger, Reinhard K.

Management & Leadership

Companies that experience success are invariably the ones most vulnerable to failure. Providing a strong warning about corporate complacency and what can be done in order for a company to survive and thrive, this analysis provides information on why change is difficult to implement within a company, why management should tackle the issue and overcome fear of change, and how companies can develop a culture of constant innovation and reinvention in order to regenerate themselves. Ultimately, companies must be prepared to change the winning formula in order to stay on top of their success.

Always Change A Winning Team: Why Reinvention And Change Are The Prerequisites For Business Success

Robertson, Peter P.

A revolutionary perspective on business strategy and performance informs this guide to building business strategies that will increase profits and the long-term value of a business. The advice provided will facilitate a manager's ability to answer three crucial questions: Why is our business performance following its current path? Where is it going if we carry on as we are? and How can we design a robust strategy to transform this performance in the future? A practical framework for making business decisions offers a vision for understanding the inner workings of a business, asserting control in a market, choosing strategies that adhere to goals, outperforming the competition, and managing external forces. The stimulating ideas enable managers to make a significant impact on profitability and reap rewards in the future.

The Critical Path: Building Strategic Performance Through Time

Warren, Kim

A blueprint for creating organizational effectiveness through correct management is provided in this practical, fact-based approach to the difficult task of managing people in the workplace. The nuances of hiring, developing, and promoting are addressed, with tips for dealing with workforce attrition and advice for placing personnel in the best positions to succeed. Difficult management decisions such as determining the needs and strengths of each employee, making necessary business adjustments over time, and undertaking organizational initiatives are discussed and illustrated with real-world examples. Each management obstacle is accompanied by original and direct solutions.

People Power: Developing The Talent To Perform

Kourdi, Jeremy

Using a highly innovative fictional narrative, this title addresses the big issues that face those in the everyday business world by asking such questions as Are you getting the most out of your life? The central character, Mat Durer, is a highly talented management consultant about to be promoted to partner in a top global firm when one night changes everything and forces Mat to reappraise all he once believed in. At first he tries to escape, seduced by the idea of a new life of scuba diving in the Caribbean. He, though, he realizes no matter how deep his dives, he cannot hide from his conscience. He soon returns to work for a small, relatively unknow consultancy with a radical approach to business. Mat becomes determined to discover what really lies behind success, both for a business and for an individual.

Closework: A Story That Will Change the Way You Think About Your Life, Work, and Future

GIBSON, SIMON

Lury, Adam

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