No fear [electronic resource] : business leadership in the age of digital cowboys / Pekka A. Viljakainen with Mark Mueller-Eberstein and eight visiting friends questioning our thoughts-- ; [translated from the original Finnish by Arttu Tolonen].

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9789814346665

9789814346887

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Viljakainen, Pekka.

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Viljakainen, Pekka.

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London : Marshall Cavendish Business, 2011.

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1 online resource (xiv, 303 pages)

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Mueller-Eberstein, Mark, 1970-

Tolonen, Arttu.

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2011

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London : Marshall Cavendish Business, 2011.

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Old-school, industrial-style leaders are in big trouble. Having just experienced the first small wave of globalization, the mobile revolution and the consumer-driven economy, the next economic cycle (2011-2016) will be one where these key trends will be at the forefront of most businesses. Moreover, as digital technology develops further, the pace of change will accelerate. Managers and executives need to meet these challenges and their consequences head-on - and without fear. Pekka Viljakainen has been at the cutting-edge of business organizations and their leadership for the past 10 years. In this book, he presents a manifesto for business leadership in the digital age. It sets out the agenda for mastering the challenges of tomorrow in a truly global and people-oriented way. Moreover, for current and future managers, this book provides guidance on how to act and lead successfully in the new world.

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Pekka Viljakainen has been at the cutting-edge of business organizations and their leadership for the past 10 years. In this book, he presents a manifesto for business leadership in the digital age. It sets out the agenda for mastering the challenges of tomorrow in a truly global and people-oriented way. Moreover, for current and future managers, this book provides guidance on how to act and lead successfully in the new world.

Foreword and acknowledgements	p. vii
About the contributing authors	p. xi
A note about trademarks	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
1 Fear equals failure	p. 8
Today's status; changing business fundamentals and orbiting leaders	p. 12
Left side of the brain Versus the right side of the brain	p. 25
The Digital Cowboys of the PlayStation generation	p. 32
Your contribution to www.nofear-community.com	p. 34
2 Why should I follow you? The challenge from the leader's perspective	p. 37
Leaders from the Industrial Revolution enter the digital age	p. 37
What is the fundamental change when leading an enterprise?	p. 40
What makes you authentic?	p. 41
What is your value creation? I mean, really?	p. 48
Welcome to the Professional Service Firm culture	p. 58
Clarity, risk management and simplification	p. 72
Bill Fischer. Leaders and cowboys: unleashing talent in the digital age	p. 75
3 Hey, old man. What do you know about me? The challenge from the digital cowboy's perspective	p. 87
Hey, Boss - this is not just work	p. 88
What do you expect from a leader?	p. 89
Digital Cowboys as part of an organization	p. 95
What do we mean by a truly international experience?	p. 99
Philipp Rosenthal: Avoiding negative organizational gravity while becoming a Digital Cowboy	p. 103
4 How does an industrial-age relic turn into an authentic leader?	p. 111
How many mistakes did I share today?	p. 114
Anatomy, physiology, psychology or psychology, physiology, anatomy?	p. 117
A leader is a producer, not an invisible delegator	p. 120
Is Facebook my value creation network?	p. 123
Choosing people: old world versus new world	p. 127
Me and my chairman	p. 131
Kari Hakola: The CEO as a number-one change agent	p. 133
5 What I as an executive should change in my company, in practice	p. 142
Theoretical versus practical models	p. 142
Organizational change in the age of the Digital Cowboy	p. 150
Victor Orlovsky, What will the future be? Is the world vertical?	p. 172
6 Places of magnificent growth and magnificent failure - emerging markets	p. 191
The amazing leap from second to fourth generation	p. 192
How to add value for Digital Cowboys in emerging markets	p. 196
Arkady Dvorkovich: New leadership for new leaders	p. 206
Birger Steen: Leading a team of Russian super-professionals	p. 213
Alex Lin: The Internet is speeding up the integration between China and the world	p. 223
7 Technology - your saviour or your nemesis	p. 232
Information versus intelligence	p. 234
The leader's role in all this change	p. 237
The consumerization of IT	p. 243
Simplify, amplify and the IT infrastructure	p. 250
Simplification versus customization	p. 254
Learning from previous technology cycles	p. 257
The next technology cycle and new leadership	p. 263
Marten Mickos: Building the next-generation enterprise	p. 279
8 Fearless means stupidity. NO FEAR can mean success	p. 288
The burden of doing only the right things	p. 291
Complete transparency and trust are key	p. 294
The grand finale; conclusions	p. 296
Bibliography	p. 297
Notes	p. 300

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