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Art Kleiner

Art Kleiner is editor-in-chief of strategy+business.

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A Tribute to Four Elders: Engelbart, Seashore, Seashore, and Burns
These four excelled at making meaningful connections in a world where that matters more than ever.
November 1, 2013 by Art Kleiner
What Executives Really Mean When They Talk About Change
When business leaders talk about organizational change, they’re really pursuing an ideal.
October 1, 2013 by Art Kleiner
The Lesson of J.C. Penney: There Is No King
Fights in the boardroom between shareholders and management highlight one important question—who gets to call the shots?
September 13, 2013 by Art Kleiner
Why Things Fail (And Why They Get Better)
Steve Capps’s award-winning article is an essential primer for anyone trying to understand manufacturing.
July 19, 2013 by Art Kleiner
Douglas Rushkoff Makes the Digital Economy Work for You
The social theorist on why new technologies are ushering in a paradigm shift, and how the transition will redefine how business is done.
July 16, 2013 by Art Kleiner
Summer Camp for Systems Thinkers
Introducing Camp Snowball, where teachers learn the hidden interactions that separate success from failure.
July 8, 2013 by Art Kleiner
An Index to the Best Thinking in Business
Welcome to strategy+business’s new blog.
June 11, 2013 by Art Kleiner
The Thought Leader Interview: David Kantor
An eminent systems therapist says that learning to recognize the hidden patterns in conversation is the first step toward more effective executive leadership.
May 28, 2013 by Art Kleiner
The Discipline of Managing Disruption
To Harvard professor Clayton Christensen, coauthor of How Will You Measure Your Life?, a primary task of leadership is asking questions that anticipate great challenges.
March 11, 2013 by Art Kleiner
The Thought Leader Interview: Cynthia Montgomery
A Harvard Business School professor observes that leaders become better strategists by engaging in conversations about the purpose of a company.
February 26, 2013 by Ken Favaro and Art Kleiner
The Dueling Myths of Business
Author and scenario planning expert Betty Sue Flowers dissects the attitudes and beliefs that unconsciously influence leaders.
February 26, 2013 by Art Kleiner
What Drives a Company’s Success?
Booz & Company and strategy+business have introduced an online survey to explore the relationship between management theory, corporate identity, and high performance.
February 4, 2013 by Art Kleiner and Nadia Kubis
The Thought Leader Interview: Douglas Conant
The coauthor of TouchPoints and former CEO of Campbell Soup Company explains how executives build their company’s capabilities by connecting with people more effectively.
August 28, 2012 by Art Kleiner
Brand Transformation on the Internet
To Aaron Shapiro, CEO of the digital agency Huge, online marketing means creating immersive environments where people go to get their problems solved.
June 25, 2012 by Art Kleiner
The Thought Leader Interview: Dov Seidman
The influential business author and CEO explains why the practice of enlightened self-governance gives companies an edge.
May 29, 2012 by Art Kleiner
How Ikea Reassembled Its Growth Strategy
During the Great Recession, this iconic Swedish furniture company developed a new way to expand: cutting costs while increasing customer loyalty.
May 7, 2012 by Deniz Caglar, Marco Kesteloo, and Art Kleiner
The Thought Leader Interview: Bob Carrigan
Media pioneer Bob Carrigan, of IDG Communications and the Interactive Advertising Bureau, explains why new media is the most optimistic part of the economy.
February 13, 2012 by Art Kleiner
The Thought Leader Interview: Meg Wheatley
An expert on innovative leadership warns that too many companies are reverting to fear-driven management. Instead, executives should hold to their values and build healthy corporate communities.
November 22, 2011 by Art Kleiner
The Case for Intelligent Industrial Policy
Economic strategist Clyde Prestowitz argues for better support for manufacturing.
August 23, 2011 by Art Kleiner, Arvind Kaushal, and Thomas Mayor
The Art of the Business Narrative
Hollywood producer, executive, and entrepreneur Peter Guber makes the case that telling purposeful stories is an essential skill for leaders.
May 24, 2011 by Art Kleiner
A Long-Wave Theory on Today’s Digital Revolution
Historian Elin Whitney-Smith looks at previous periods of disruption to understand what companies (and people) are going through today.
May 16, 2011 by Art Kleiner
How to Balance Power and Love
Scenario planning and social change expert Adam Kahane suggests that to master large and difficult challenges, leaders need to learn to act and empathize simultaneously.
March 7, 2011 by Art Kleiner
The Thought Leader Interview: Didier Lombard
The former chairman of the board of France Télécom says telecommunications companies must outpace — or be inundated by — the coming explosion in data traffic.
February 22, 2011 by Art Kleiner and Pierre Peladeau
A Corporate Climate of Mutual Help
Edgar Schein, MIT’s sage of organizational culture, explains why the quest for accountability should start with interdependence.
January 19, 2011 by Art Kleiner and Rutger von Post
15 Years, 50 Classics
To celebrate a decade and a half of publication, we asked the s+b editors to look back and choose the articles that have had the greatest impact.
November 15, 2010 by Art Kleiner
The Coherence Profiler
An interactive diagnostic test can show you how focused your company’s activities are — with sometimes surprising results.
November 8, 2010 by Art Kleiner
The Thought Leader Interview: Vineet Nayar
The CEO of HCL Technologies describes how he focused his company on growth by engaging staff in unprecedented ways.
October 18, 2010 by Art Kleiner and Vikas Sehgal
A Gandhian Approach to R&D
Scientist and scholar Raghunath Mashelkar explains a new model of innovation from India that benefits the world’s poor.
August 24, 2010 by Abhishek Malhotra, Art Kleiner, and Laura W. Geller
The Life’s Work of a Thought Leader
In interviews conducted before his untimely death, C.K. Prahalad — the sage of core competencies and the bottom of the pyramid — looked back on his career and talked about the way ideas evolve.
August 9, 2010 by Art Kleiner
A Return, Not to Normal, but to Reality
Mark Anderson, the high-tech industry’s most accurate prognosticator, foresees an economic landscape still under the stress of too much liquidity — and decision makers still in denial.
July 26, 2010 by Art Kleiner

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