Art Kleiner was formerly editor-in-chief of strategy+business.
All articles by Art Kleiner
What Executives Really Mean When They Talk About ChangeOctober 1, 2013 When business leaders talk about organizational change, they’re really pursuing an ideal.by Art Kleiner
The Lesson of J.C. Penney: There Is No King September 13, 2013 Fights in the boardroom between shareholders and management highlight one important question—who gets to call the shots?by Art Kleiner
Why Things Fail (And Why They Get Better)July 19, 2013 Steve Capps’s award-winning article is an essential primer for anyone trying to understand manufacturing.by Art Kleiner
Douglas Rushkoff Makes the Digital Economy Work for YouJuly 16, 2013 The social theorist on why new technologies are ushering in a paradigm shift, and how the transition will redefine how business is done.by Art Kleiner
Summer Camp for Systems ThinkersJuly 8, 2013 Introducing Camp Snowball, where teachers learn the hidden interactions that separate success from failure.by Art Kleiner
An Index to the Best Thinking in BusinessJune 11, 2013
Welcome to strategy+business’s new blog.
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The Thought Leader Interview: David Kantor May 28, 2013 An eminent systems therapist says that learning to recognize the hidden patterns in conversation is the first step toward more effective executive leadership.by Art Kleiner
The Discipline of Managing DisruptionMarch 11, 2013 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.by Art Kleiner
The Thought Leader Interview: Cynthia MontgomeryFebruary 26, 2013 A Harvard Business School professor observes that leaders become better strategists by engaging in conversations about the purpose of a company.by Ken Favaro and Art Kleiner
The Dueling Myths of BusinessFebruary 26, 2013 Author and scenario planning expert Betty Sue Flowers dissects the attitudes and beliefs that unconsciously influence leaders.by Art Kleiner
What Drives a Company’s Success?February 4, 2013 Booz & Company and strategy+business have introduced an online survey to explore the relationship between management theory, corporate identity, and high performance.by Art Kleiner and Nadia Kubis
The Thought Leader Interview: Douglas Conant August 28, 2012 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.by Art Kleiner
Brand Transformation on the InternetJune 25, 2012 To Aaron Shapiro, CEO of the digital agency Huge, online marketing means creating immersive environments where people go to get their problems solved.by Art Kleiner
The Thought Leader Interview: Dov SeidmanMay 29, 2012 The influential business author and CEO explains why the practice of enlightened self-governance gives companies an edge.by Art Kleiner
How Ikea Reassembled Its Growth StrategyMay 7, 2012 During the Great Recession, this iconic Swedish furniture company developed a new way to expand: cutting costs while increasing customer loyalty.by Deniz Caglar, Marco Kesteloo, and Art Kleiner
The Thought Leader Interview: Bob Carrigan
February 13, 2012 Media pioneer Bob Carrigan, of IDG Communications and the Interactive Advertising Bureau, explains why new media is the most optimistic part of the economy.by Art Kleiner
The Thought Leader Interview: Meg WheatleyNovember 22, 2011 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.by Art Kleiner
The Case for Intelligent Industrial Policy August 23, 2011 Economic strategist Clyde Prestowitz argues for better support for manufacturing.by Art Kleiner, Arvind Kaushal, and Thomas Mayor
The Art of the Business NarrativeMay 24, 2011 Hollywood producer, executive, and entrepreneur Peter Guber makes the case that telling purposeful stories is an essential skill for leaders.by Art Kleiner
A Long-Wave Theory on Today’s Digital RevolutionMay 16, 2011 Historian Elin Whitney-Smith looks at previous periods of disruption to understand what companies (and people) are going through today.by Art Kleiner
How to balance power and loveMarch 7, 2011 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.by Art Kleiner
The Thought Leader Interview: Didier LombardFebruary 22, 2011 The former chairman of the board of France Télécom says telecommunications companies must outpace — or be inundated by — the coming explosion in data traffic.by Art Kleiner and Pierre Péladeau
A Corporate Climate of Mutual Help
January 19, 2011 Edgar Schein, MIT’s sage of organizational culture, explains why the quest for accountability should start with interdependence.by Art Kleiner and Rutger von Post
15 Years, 50 Classics November 15, 2010 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.by Art Kleiner
The Coherence ProfilerNovember 8, 2010 An interactive diagnostic test can show you how focused your company’s activities are — with sometimes surprising results.by Art Kleiner
The Thought Leader Interview: Vineet Nayar
October 18, 2010 The CEO of HCL Technologies describes how he focused his company on growth by engaging staff in unprecedented ways.by Art Kleiner and Vikas Sehgal
A Gandhian Approach to R&DAugust 24, 2010 Scientist and scholar Raghunath Mashelkar explains a new model of innovation from India that benefits the world’s poor.by Abhishek Malhotra, Art Kleiner, and Laura W. Geller
The Life’s Work of a Thought Leader August 9, 2010 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.by Art Kleiner
A Return, Not to Normal, but to Reality July 26, 2010 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.by Art Kleiner
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