Build a funky business with attitude

Article Abstract:

Management skills are crucial to any company's survival in markets where they are competing with similar-quality products. Two Swedish management academics, Kjell Nordstrom and Jonas Ridderstrale, debate the key to management success.

Interview, Business consultants, Management consultants, Nordstrom, Kjell, Ridderstrale, Jonas

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The cultural advantage

Article Abstract:

Changing the company's culture, and the hard work required in achieving and maintaining the quality of the company's culture, its advantages and disadvantages are discussed.

Management Development, Evaluation

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The new order masks deeper changes to the character of industry itself; managers can no longer afford to assume that underlying industrial conditions will remain the same

Article Abstract:

Corporate managers are encountering changes in the ways they anticipate business cycles, project labor needs, organize job content, and assess business risks. As companies expand globally, and as opportunities for product distribution encounter stiffer competition, sellers and buyers find themselves exchanging roles to ensure market share stability. Managing workers requires new approaches to motivation since employee involvement and committment is tentative due to ever-changing corporate objectives and strategies.

Management Dynamics NEC, Australia, Innovations, Human resource management, Risk management, Management techniques

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