All articles by Art Kleiner

When companies come together to save the world, what’s more compelling — environmental results or competitive advantage?

The Toyota Production System has revolutionized industry. James Womack and Daniel Jones believe it can transform the world.

The quality wars were allegedly won in the 1980s. Why, then, are we again overwhelmed by junk?

The best new product ideas are hatched by collaboration, not soloists.

Peruvian economist Hernando de Soto has found a way to enrich the poor.

NYU Professor Baruch Lev finds vast value in intangible assets.

There’s more to wealth creation than financial value. Think what rainmaking, reputation, and relationships can do for you and your company.

As the pace of change in business accelerates, the legacy of Pierre Wack, the father of scenario planning, is more relevant than ever.

Companies can analyze, engineer, and elevate their own human networks, says the pioneering social scientist.

Populist gadfly Jeff Gates wants today’s CEOs to build a new middle class with stock ownership plans. Or else.

You don’t have to be a CEO to create an environment that supports action. You just need a flair for imaginative networking.

To the world’s most renowned business historian, what you know is more important than what you do.

In every company, an insider set of managers influences decision making. In some cases, that’s healthy, in others (witness Enron), it’s a nightmare.

A 10-year debate between two feuding gurus sheds some light on a vexing business question.

The management scholar put 1,435 good companies through a rigorous performance analysis and discovered only 11 became great. Here’s why.

For executives who want to do good and do well, some long-awaited guidebooks.

A small Ozarks manufacturer has a message for big companies: Open-book management can increase productivity and release entrepreneurial spirit.

The sum of operational, executive, and engineering cultures is greater than the corporate whole.

World Wide Fund for Nature, The Netherlands Director, Action Network

Anglo-Dutch gurus Fons Trompenaars and Charles Hampden-Turner have become the go-to guys on multinational mergers. Their recipe: making opposites attract.

Tom Peters galvanized a free-agent nation with his manifesto, “The Brand Called You.” But there is something missing from his vision: us.

The controversial Canadian theorist claims he can create the perfect organization. Has he found the key to management — or merely a justification for bureaucracy?

By imposing togetherness and teamwork across divisional boundaries, companies risk losing the people whose tacit knowledge actually drives growth.

Heralded as the corporation's savior, BPR was later condemned as a heartless, failed management fad. But perhaps evangelists like Michael Hammer needed to go even farther.

For business/school partnerships to work, companies have to listen, as well as teach.

The foundation of the company is no longer the company: It's the team.

The constitutional scholar and national security expert defines a new era of market statehood.

Diverse workplaces require emotional maturity, and that means confronting “rankism.”

The industrial giant’s legendary learning center, Crotonville, has a new assignment: Teach every manager to be a strategist.

What transforms a craze into sustained growth? Trust.