All articles by Stuart Crainer

On successful imitators, differentiated searchers, insecure fast-trackers, and more.

On Southwest’s new IT strategy, reputation as a crime deterrent, the value of self-disclosure, customer perception of offshoring, and more.

On catching malfeasance, improving boards, priming brands, predicting negotiations, and appreciating e-mail.

On the culture of spin-offs, Ken Lay’s calendar, the synergies of digital retail, and the case against microcredit.

On remanufactured products, inaccurate forecasts, misunderstood meetings, and more.

On product piracy, CEO celebrity, me-too brands, and more.

On creative globetrotters, relocated headquarters, a business ethics pioneer, and more.

On watercooler talk, learning from failure, happy accidents, measuring communications, and metaphors.

On schools for elder leaders, Japanese decision making, innovation inertia, and more.

On entrepreneurs, innovation, executive women, and CEO pay.

On auction psychology, e-mail tactics, CEO turnover, and more.

On emerging-world corporate “tigers,” the profitability of innovations, and other topics of interest.

On straw-man marketing, leadership and meaning, acquired innovation, and other topics of interest.

Distributed leadership, shareholder value in family-owned firms, R&D strategy, and other topics of interest.

On the perils of stretch goals, modular engineering, educating CEOs, and other topics of interest.

On diversity’s payoff, e-pricing strategy, marketing and growth, and other topics of interest.

Business leaders can learn a lot from how the military manages the flow of real-time information.

On humor’s management power, venture capital in China, media’s influence on business, and other topics of interest.

Health, wellness, and wisdom are all fair game in the executive suite.

On emotion in advertising, manufacturing metaphors, corporate innovation, and other topics of interest.

On securities analysts, innovation, European happiness, Asian competitiveness, and other topics of interest.

On tournament theory, global competitiveness, corporate whistleblowing, and other topics of interest.

On university high-tech spin-offs, outsourcing strategy, measuring intellectual capital, and other topics of interest.

INSEAD’s strategy scholars parse the line between value and innovation.

The European Union is emerging as a formidable competitor among world economies, thanks to an aptitude for cross-border management and an ease with cultural diversity.

Projecting the future used to be a bold, adventurous enterprise. Today's business seers — John Naisbitt, Watts Wacker, et al. — are doing all they can to keep up with the present.

Saving Big Blue: Leadership Lessons & Turnaround Tactics of IBM'S Lou Gerstner by Robert Slater (304 pages, McGraw-Hill, 1999)

When Giants Stumble: Classic Business Blunders and How to Avoid Them by Robert Sobel (368 pages, Prentice Hall Press, 1999)

A.B.B., The Dancing Giant: Creating the Globally Connected Corporation by Kevin Barham and Claudia Heimer (260 pages, Pitman Publishing Ltd., 1998)