• When Business Is Love
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Leadership BusinessSuccess Achievement

Program Sessions

  1. Advance Praise
  2. Opening Credits
  3. A Note To The Listener
  4. Dedication
  5. Acknowledgements
  6. Foreword
  7. Chapter 1 - Can You Really Run A Company On Love?
  8. Chapter 2 - My Own Story
  9. Chapter 3 - Mission: Make the World Happier, Kinder, More Loving, More Peaceful, More Abundant, and More Compassionate
  10. Chapter 4 - Imagination: Returning to the Innocence of Childhood
  11. Chapter 5 - Abundance: You Don't Need Dollars; Dollars Need You
  12. Chapter 6 - Competition: We Have No Competitors- Because We Are above the Competition
  13. Chapter 7 - Work: Getting off the Hamster Wheel
  14. Chapter 8 - Mastery: Seeking the Original Intent of the Founder
  15. Chapter 9 - Modeling: Inspired by Apple
  16. Chapter 10 - Good Vibrations: Releasing Negativity and Moving to Higher Frequencies
  17. Chapter 11 - People: We Hire for Life
  18. Chapter 12 - Culture: Finding Ways to Say Yes
  19. Chapter 13 - Standards: What If Your Customers Could Look You in the Eye
  20. Chapter 14 - Openness to Questions: How Good Can You Stand It?
  21. Chapter 15 - Growth: Only Limiting Beliefs Create Limits
  22. Chapter 16 - Taking Flight: Staying on the Glide Path
  23. Chapter 17 - Integrity: Becoming a Manifestation of Creation Itself
  24. Chapter 18 - Humility: Knowing What You Don't Know
  25. Chapter 19 - Openness and Trust: The Spirit of Hästens in the Factory
  26. Chapter 20 - Visualization: Seeing the Future Before It Happens
  27. Chapter 21 - Stress: How We Avoid It Altogether
  28. Chapter 22 - Encouragement: Creating a Culture of Appreciation
  29. Chapter 23 - Innovation and Intuition: We Are All Geniuses
  30. Chapter 24 - Identity: Choosing Positive Ways to See Ourselves
  31. Chapter 25 - Love: Operating at the Highest Frequency
  32. A Call To Action
  33. Appendix 1
  34. Appendix 2
  35. Closing Credits

When Business Is Love

by Jan Ryde

8h 12m
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When Business Is Love tells the story of Jan Ryde's mission to create the world's finest beds and to operate his fifth-generation business, Hästens, on the basis of love.

Love.

It isn't everything. It's the only thing.

Despite the world being such a rich and abundant place, love is one thing that all the world is longing for, yet (as the old song goes) just can't seem to get enough of.

In When Business Is Love: The Spirit of Hästens — At Work, At Play, and Everywhere In Your Life, Jan Ryde, the fifth generation CEO of family-owned Swedish bed manufacturer Hästens, reveals the secrets to running a business and living a life rooted in love.

When Business Is Love is a program about what can happen when one approaches business and life with the single intention to give everyone involved the opportunity to experience their best life.

When Business Is Love shares Jan Ryde's mission to make the world a better place by putting people first and leading with values of humility, honesty, integrity, mastery, gratitude, forgiveness, encouragement, joy, peacefulness, and — above all else: LOVE.

You will follow Jan's personal journey from business school professor to CEO of a modest family business that he built into a global company, and learn from his successful leadership philosophy:

  • Why you must embrace your whole story — even the dark times.
  • The importance of a clearly-defined mission.
  • The magic of imagination and retaining one's child-like creativity.
  • How to step into and live in abundance through connection to the Source.
  • The myth of competition and how you only have to create to succeed.
  • The power of modeling and acting on the clues that success freely leaves for you.
  • The miracles that show up in your life when you invest in helping people to have their best life ever.

Under Jan Ryde's management, Hästens, founded in Sweden in 1852 as a one-man saddlery, has grown into one of the world's most beloved brands with stores from Los Angeles to London, from Istanbul to Singapore. Hästens enjoys an outstanding international reputation for creating the finest beds in the world, as evidenced by a client list that includes everyone from Hollywood royalty to actual crowned heads of state. Its luxurious, handcrafted, top-of-the-line Grand Vividus sells for as much as a million dollars.

Following Jan Ryde's example of business as love, you'll find yourself asking the transformative question that motivates the entire Hästens team: how good do you want to have it?

What You'll Learn

• Why you must embrace your whole story — even the dark times.
• The importance of a clearly-defined mission.
• The magic of imagination and retaining one's child-like creativity.
• How to step into and live in abundance through connection to the Source.
• The myth of competition and how you only have to create to succeed.
• The power of modeling and acting on the clues that success freely leaves for you.
• The miracles that show up in your life when you invest in helping people to have their best life ever.

About the Author

Jan Ryde is the fifth generation CEO of Hästens, a family-owned Swedish bed manufacturer founded in Sweden in 1852. A former business school professor, Ryde transformed the company from a modest family business into a globally recognized luxury brand with locations from Los Angeles to London and Istanbul to Singapore. He leads Hästens on a philosophy of love, guiding his team with values of humility, honesty, integrity, mastery, gratitude, forgiveness, encouragement, joy, peacefulness, and above all, love. Hästens is celebrated worldwide for crafting extraordinary beds, with its handcrafted Grand Vividus selling for as much as one million dollars.

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