The Viking manifesto : the Scandinavian approach to business and blasphemy / Steve Strid and Claes Andréasson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Strid, Steve.

Contributor:

Andréasson, Claes.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Industrial management--Scandinavia.

Industrial management.

Marketing--Scandinavia.

Marketing.

Corporate culture--Scandinavia.

Corporate culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (193 p.)

Place of Publication:

London : Marshall Cavendish Business, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Vikings went from making wine snifters from the skulls of their enemies to selling furniture in flat boxes. They took civilization based on pillaging and plundering and gave us The Nobel Prize and IKEA. The Vikings are back, and this time they mean business. The Viking Manifesto is a call to arms for a new way of doing business. It's about having an original idea and a different way of making it happen. The ancient Vikings got rich with swords and fast ships; the modern ones with safe cars (Volvo) and sippable vodka (Absolut). Both broke the rules. Both came from nowhere to take the world by storm. This book reveals how Scandinavian companies are making a huge impact on the business landscape, and what lessons other companies can learn from them. It is a book that will astonish, inspire and amuse.

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""PART I. MARKETING""; ""PRINCIPLES""; ""1. If there's something you'd rather be doing, do it""; ""2. Invade with a good idea""; ""3. Visionaries often look back""; ""4. A change of course,but never a change of heart""; ""5. A few words before we set sail:learn the basics""; ""6. Plan your attack""; ""7. Use your weaknesses to your advantage""; ""8. Decide which small god to pick on""; ""9. Think small and see the big picture""; ""10. Think big and see the small opening""; ""11. Even in a war of words""

""12. Make money on suffering, despair and poverty""""13. Make money on human decency""; ""14. Be humble and rude (rather than arrogant and polite)""; ""15. Adopt a target group people you like or people like you""; ""16. Make money by giving things away""; ""17. Start innovative, stick to your principles, change""; ""18. Blend in by standing out""; ""19. Learn the new maths""; ""20. Perfect the product""; ""21. If your product is really terrible, spend your marketing money on the product""; ""22. There are millions of products but only two brands be both of them""

""23. Competition is a secondary consideration""""24. The tools remain the same""; ""25. Advertising doesn't work ,and why this is good""; ""26. A good story is worth millions more than it used to be""; ""27. Viking Zen (or summer fashion at 30 below zero)""; ""28. Go against type""; ""29. Use education as marketing""; ""PART II. CORPORATE CULTURE""; ""30. Pillaging, plundering and other family values""; ""31. Everyone's in charge""; ""32. Learn to make the right mistakes""; ""33. Problems are a manager's best friend""

""34. Put berserkers in the front of the boat (but don't let them steer)""""35. Put violence in perspective and take it out of your business""; ""36. Make a note: slavery is an administrative nightmare""; ""37. Empower your women""; ""38. Competition is nonsense""; ""39. If you want to motivate,forget reward and punishment""; ""40. Talk is cheap, but still overpriced""; ""41. Resurrect the lost art of decision-making""; ""42. Keep people honest""; ""43. Plagiarize the plagiarist an original idea worth copying""; ""44. Put lawyers in the last boat""

""45. Use creative accounting for a better world""""46. Controversy is great, if you're right""; ""47. Rethink money""; ""48. Two approaches to dealing with crisis proactive or poodle""; ""49. Take marketing studies with a pinch of salt""; ""50. Don't leave luck to chance""; ""Appendix""; ""Bibliography""; ""About the authors""; ""Illustration credits""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9789814312592

9814312592

9780462093642

0462093646

OCLC:

904247046