Expert interview Jonas Ridderstrale part 2

Expert interview with Jonas Ridderstrale
Europe’s number 1 management thinker
Part 2

Posted on December 6, 2007 - Filed Under CSA - Celebrity Speakers, Expert Interviews |

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3. Asian companies are just on the rise and not entered fully in the global market yet. Are there huge differences between the management techniques they use and the ones you offer to be successful?

There is no Asian management style. We find great differences even between Japanese companies. I think it is fair to say that as individualism and freedom of choice conquer also this part of the world, leaders will have to become less of traditional bosses – power with rather than power over. As the companies mature and move further up the value chain, many of them will also have to become global not only in output terms, but also when it come to input and throughput. This will require a somewhat different organizational and managerial approach.

4. You have updated Funky Business and remastered it for the new business reality. What are the main things that have been changed since the book was published?

We have given the book a 60 degree wash to make it more independent of space and time. We also include an entirely new chapter with some of the most important developments over the last 8-10 years.

5. Based on the fact that Funky Business has been updated can a manager still use and learn from the old book or from Karaoke Capitalism or can we say that time has been changed?

Some truths are eternal. I still believe strongly in 99.9% of the stuff that we have written about in the books. If anything, we probably underestimated the power of the forces of change. Our books provide people with questions and a way of looking at the world – structuring mechanisms and principles – that makes them less likely to become irrelevant than books that try to sell you answers in the form of 10 bankable propositions.

end of the interview with Jonas Ridderstrale

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