Anders Indset Talks About The Viking Code and High-Performance Culture

Hi, I'm Anders Insett, and I'm about to have a productive conversation with Mike Vardy. Welcome to A Productive Conversation. I'm Mike Vardy and I'm excited to welcome Anders Inset to the podcast today. Now, Anders wrote a book that I couldn't help but tear through just simply because it had the word code in it and it had Viking in it.

And the idea of just exploring another framework was really, really compelling to me. So the book is called The Viking Code, the Art and Science of Norwegian Success. It came out in October of 2024, but we're getting around to sharing this with you now. And this If you're listening to this as it drops is the perfect time of year, you just start to look at different approaches and frameworks and philosophies that you can bring into your life.

Now, Andrews is known as the business philosopher. He's a Norwegian-born writer and deep tech investor, so he dances on both sides of the equation there. He's also a five-time Spiegel best-selling author with six international books to his name. and has been recognized by Thinkers50 as one of the most influential thinkers in technology and leadership for the years to come. And you can tell just by our conversation, we get into the concept of finite and infinite games, and that goes down a a rabbit hole that we had to climb out of.

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