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Karaoke Capitalism Daring to Be Different in a Copycat World
Jonas Ridderstråle, Kjell A. Nordström
Book Code: C8689
ISBN: 0-275-98689-6
ISBN-13: 978-0-275-98689-6
328 pages, figures; photos; tables
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 3/30/2005
List Price: $41.95
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Also Available: Ebook
Trim Size: OTHER
Subjects: Reviews:
  • Excellent, entertaining reading with a serious business purpose, especially for technology entrepreneurs and seed venture capitalists. Recommended. Upper-division undergraduate through professional collections.
    —Choice     October 2005
  • Endorsement From Tom Peters: If you loved Funky Business as much as I did, you'll love Karaoke Capitalism. Weird? Most certainly. Different? Most definitely. But, if you want to re-imagine your organization and your career it's a though-provoking place to start.
Description: We all know that the rules by which business is conducted have changed. But by how much? The dot.commers who threw out the playbook and tried to reinvent everything crashed and burned. "Back-to-basics" and "execution" are refrains reverberating down corporate hallways. And yet there is still a sense of unease. "Playing it safe" could just be another phrase for "heading toward business oblivion." Jonas Ridderstråle and Kjell Nordström, the outspoken authors of the international besteller, Funky Business, are at it again, with a provocative analysis of the social and cultural forces that are defining the business landscape--in particular, the fundamental relationships between employers and employees and between companies and customers. Covering a huge terrain--from the impact of high tech to the ever-widening gaps between the haves and the have-nots, and with references from Adam Smith to Janis Joplin--the authors bring into focus the challenges of business leadership in a world increasingly defined by individualism. "Karaoke" capitalism refers to the philosophy of imitiation, engrained into the corporate mindset by such popular concepts as benchmarking and best practice. For Ridderstråle and Nordström, the only way to survive is to chuck convention, to embrace your company's individual personality and promote it through everything you do, constantly honing what works and abandoning what doesn't. Ultimately, the authors argue that armed with imagination it is possible to sustain profitable businesses while contributing to the well-being of customers, communities, and the society at large. Visit the authors' Web sites at www.karaokecapitalism.com and www.funkybusiness.com.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Endless Solos
  • Freed by Robots
  • Changing the Rules
  • Material Boys and Girls
  • The Age of Abnormality
  • Talent Takes Over
  • Customer in Charge
  • Capitalists Are Crying
  • Webs of Wisdom
  • Innovation Inc
  • The Holy Grail of Business
  • Models with Minds
  • Moods that Matter
  • Managing Moody Models
  • Breaking Free from Karaoke
  • Notes Photo Credits
LC Card Number: 2004028023
LCC Class: HD58
Dewey Class: 658
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