Funky Business

In Funky Business: Talent makes capital dance, Kjell A. Nordström & Jonas Ridderstråle launch a manifesto for the new world of business. Forget what has come before; this is the future for organisations and leaders. We are all condemned to freedom. We cannot delegate the understanding of what drives tomorrows society to politicians and executives. The funky future is here and now it's all up to you. Funky Business is essential reading for those trying to learn the language and recipes of the new economy.

1. Funky Times
• The battle of brains
• The 3rd Knowledge Revolution
• Revolutions revisited
• Funky Business is truly global
• Funky Business means more competition for everything else
• Funky Business requires a constant search for differentiation
• Funky Business requires organizational innovation
• Funky Business puts management and leadership center stage
• Funky Business gives us the power into the funky future
• Into the funky future
2. Forces of Funk
• Technology: The endless riff
• Digital data
• Digital dreams
• Institutions: Remaking the mausoleums
• The institution of capitalism
• The nation state
• Political parties
• The eternal enterprice
• The family
• Values: From telescopes to kaleidoscopes
• Working values
• Fusion in the global village
• Spiritual emptiness
• Deregulating life: Condemned to freedom
• Coping with chaos
3. Funky Village
• The surplus society
• Market mania
• Senseless supply
• Costless communication
• The return of the demanding customer
• Competing for attention
• Now: The real-time society
• The age of auctions
• Softwhere: The brain-based society
• Competence-based competition
• Everywhere: The globally-linked society
• The Far West
• The Far East
• The close(d) East
• Near Here
• Etc.
• Leaders and laggards
• The blurred society
• The fragmented society
• Polarization
• Tribalization
• Individualization
• The hy-phe-na-ted society
• The winner takes all
4. Funky Inc.
• Funky Inc. is focused
• Narrow focus
• Hollow focus
• Targeted focus
• Funky Inc. is leveraged
• Internal leverage
• Industrial leverage
• International leverage
• Funky Inc. is innovative
• Innovate through reinventing strategy
• Innovate through speed
• Innovate through smartness
• Ignoring and listening to customers
• Combining heterogeneity and hemogeneity
• Funky Inc. is heterarchical
• The funky model
• Seven features of the funky firm
• A recipe for success?
5. Funky Fu
• Meaningful leadership
• Direction — spin me
• Experimentation — forgive me
• Education — develop me
• Personalization — see me
• Coming out
• Be Unique
• Incorporate
• Get connected
• Dreamanagement
6. Feeling Funky
• Wet dreams are made of this
• From location to organization
• Economies of soul
• Infinite innovation
• Sensational strategies
• Building the emotional enterprise
• The average never wins

It looks like Tom Peters, sounds like Peters, as much meat as Peters, but at least it can be read.

With that said, you'll get as much enlightenment as from Peters, i.e. Zilch.