What I learned from reading Leading By Design: The Ikea Story by Bertil Torekull.
What I learned from reading Leading By Design: The Ikea Story by Bertil Torekull.
He aims to give his company eternal life [0:01]
Early life and entrepreneurship [3:45]
The beginning of IKEA [8:00]
Learning entrepreneurship by imitating [11:40]
IKEA almost dies in infancy / how Ingvar worked his way through it [16:30]
Ingvar’s greatest regret in life: Neglecting his children for his business. “Everyone with children knows that childhood does not allow itself to be reconquered.” [26:00]
Only those asleep make no mistakes. — Ingvar Kamprad [32:20]
Thinking of the first store as a laboratory [36:00]
Why IKEA stumbled upon self assembled furniture [43:43]
A summary of the early history of IKEA [46:30]
How Ingvar managed [49:00]
Why Ingvar refused to go public [54:00]
The IKEA Company Bible: The Testament of a Furniture Dealer [1:03:30]
Ingvar the Misfit [1:19:10]
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