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  • How, Revised and Updated: Why How We Do Anything Means Everything...in Business (and in Life)
    How, Revised and Updated: Why How We Do Anything Means Everything...in Business (and in Life)
    by Dov Seidman
  • The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams & Reaching Your Destiny
    The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams & Reaching Your Destiny
    by Robin Sharma
  • Thinking for a Living: Creating Ideas That Revitalize Your Business, Career, and Life
    Thinking for a Living: Creating Ideas That Revitalize Your Business, Career, and Life
    by Joey Reiman
  • Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
    Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
    by Daniel H. Pink
  • Getting to Plan B: Breaking Through to a Better Business Model
    Getting to Plan B: Breaking Through to a Better Business Model
    by John Mullins, Randy Komisar
  • The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
    The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
    by Atul Gawande
  • Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle
    Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle
    by Dan Senor, Saul Singer
  • Change by Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation
    Change by Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation
    by Tim Brown
  • Born to Be Good: The Science of a Meaningful Life
    Born to Be Good: The Science of a Meaningful Life
    by Dacher Keltner
  • Eating Animals
    Eating Animals
    by Jonathan Safran Foer
  • It's Not What You Sell, It's What You Stand For: Why Every Extraordinary Business Is Driven by Purpose
    It's Not What You Sell, It's What You Stand For: Why Every Extraordinary Business Is Driven by Purpose
    by Roy M. Spence Jr.
  • Wired to Care: How Companies Prosper When They Create Widespread Empathy
    Wired to Care: How Companies Prosper When They Create Widespread Empathy
    by Dev Patnaik
  • Life Without Lawyers
    Life Without Lawyers
    by Philip K. Howard
  • Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature
    Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature
    by Janine M. Benyus
  • Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
    Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
    by Dan Ariely
  • Very Brief Psychotherapy
    Very Brief Psychotherapy
    by James P. Gustafson
  • A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future
    A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future
    by Daniel H. Pink
  • Confessions of a Radical Industrialist: Profits, People, Purpose--Doing Business by Respecting the Earth
    Confessions of a Radical Industrialist: Profits, People, Purpose--Doing Business by Respecting the Earth
    by Ray C. Anderson, Robin White
  • Firms of Endearment: How World-Class Companies Profit from Passion and Purpose
    Firms of Endearment: How World-Class Companies Profit from Passion and Purpose
    by Rajendra S. Sisodia, David B. Wolfe, Jagdish N. Sheth
  • In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
    In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
    by Michael Pollan
  • The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
    The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
    by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Stirring It Up: How to Make Money and Save the World
    Stirring It Up: How to Make Money and Save the World
    by Gary Hirshberg
  • The Spectrum: A Scientifically Proven Program to Feel Better, Live Longer, Lose Weight, and Gain Health
    The Spectrum: A Scientifically Proven Program to Feel Better, Live Longer, Lose Weight, and Gain Health
    by Dean Ornish
  • Peak: How Great Companies Get Their Mojo from Maslow
    Peak: How Great Companies Get Their Mojo from Maslow
    by Chip Conley
  • Get There Early: Seeing the Future to Compete in the Present
    Get There Early: Seeing the Future to Compete in the Present
    by Bob Johansen
  • Spiritual Capital: Wealth We Can Live by
    Spiritual Capital: Wealth We Can Live by
    by Danah Zohar, Ian Marshall
  • When Nietzsche Wept
    When Nietzsche Wept
    by Yalom Irvin D.
  • Mavericks at Work: Why the Most Original Minds in Business Win
    Mavericks at Work: Why the Most Original Minds in Business Win
    by William C. Taylor, Polly G. LaBarre
  • The SPEED of Trust: The One Thing that Changes Everything
    The SPEED of Trust: The One Thing that Changes Everything
    by Stephen M.R. Covey, Rebecca R. Merrill
  • The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations
    The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations
    by Ori Brafman, Rod Beckstrom
  • Purpose: The Starting Point of Great Companies
    Purpose: The Starting Point of Great Companies
    by Nikos Mourkogiannis
  • Food Rules: An Eater's Manual
    Food Rules: An Eater's Manual
    by Michael Pollan
  • In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
    In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
    by Michael Pollan
  • The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
    The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
    by Michael Pollan
  • The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
    The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
    by Michael Pollan

  • Strategic Partnerships

    • STERLING PARTNERS
      Operating Partners and Co-Investors
    • CUE BALL
      Special Partners and Co-investors
  • Current Investments

    • ROTI Mediterranean Grill
      Eat like Socrates!
    • Educate (Sylvan Learning)
      Long time important Sterling portfolio company. Mats Chairman of the Board
    • School of Rock
      Co-investment with Sterling (Chris Chair)
    • MiniLuxe
      Advisors and co-investors in this Cue Ball investment
    • LRN
      Investor, advisor och advocate for this great company inspiring principled performance
    • Itrim
      Investors in this best documented weightloss concept in the world (Mats on the Board)
    • Stockholm Objects
      Our favorite shop of course
    • JLindeberg
      The Future of Fashion
    • Aravo
      Great Supply Chain Management System for improving efficiency, compliance and sustainability
    • myThanx
      Be great. Be grateful. An inspiring idea Chris is developing
    • Kobalt
      Music publishing for the 21st Century
  • Speaking Agency

    • Monitor Talent
  • Interviews and Articles

    • Interview with Mats in Reuters April 2010
    • Interview in What is Enlightenment Magazine
    • Institute of Design
    • Speaking at ID Strategy Conference
    • Interview with Mats in SCA's SHAPE magazine Nov 2007
  • Authors shaping our thinking more than others....

    • List of authors
  • Inspiring Articles

    Particular focus on the convergence of purpose and profit
    • The Gospel according to Adam Smith
  • Not for profit Engagements

    • BSR
      Mats chairs Business for Social Responsibility. The finest not for profit organization helping companies towards more responsibile business practices
    • Ronald McDonald House Charities
      Helping so many children every day. Mats is on the board
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