All articles by Art Kleiner

Chinese cars go global
An Conghui, president of Zhejiang Geely Holding Group and CEO of Geely Auto Group, explains the future of flying cars and the value of an international brand.
April 3, 2019 by Jenny Chong and Art Kleiner
Inside Symantec’s Tech Transformation
Symantec chief information officer Sheila Jordan has spent four years leading IT during one of Silicon Valley’s most noteworthy corporate change efforts.
February 6, 2019 by Amity Millhiser and Art Kleiner
Keeping Cool under Pressure
For Greg Lehmkuhl, president and CEO of Lineage Logistics, temperature-controlled supply chains for perishables are one of the world’s next great platforms.
November 21, 2018 by Art Kleiner and Spencer Herbst
Simplicity, Synergy, and Scale
Natarajan Chandrasekaran, chair of Tata Sons, sets a strategic course for the 21st century.
November 7, 2018 by Art Kleiner
Google in Paperback Form: The 50th Anniversary of the Whole Earth Catalog
The entrepreneurial credo at the heart of Stewart Brand’s underground publication has shaped our world.
October 12, 2018 by Art Kleiner
Leading a Company That Wants to Change Lives through Sports
Adidas CEO Kasper Rørsted explains how to align business strategy and execution during a shift in global consumer demand.
October 10, 2018 by Ulrich Störk, Nadia Kubis, and Art Kleiner
A Doctor’s Prescription: Data May Finally Be Good for Your Health
Robert Wachter, M.D., author of The Digital Doctor, is increasingly optimistic that technology can improve healthcare. Better strategic management of people, systems, and data is making a difference.
October 8, 2018 by Art Kleiner
No Person Left Behind
What can be done when business and society marginalize those with cognitive decline?
September 27, 2018 by Art Kleiner
Start Small and Think Globally
Brazilian media and private equity leader Eduardo Sirotsky Melzer has a message for high-tech, middle-market companies in emerging economies: This could be their moment.
September 26, 2018 by Art Kleiner
How to Build a Stronger Economy
Jim Clifton, chief executive of Gallup Inc., has a robust theory about entrepreneurialism and economic recovery.
September 4, 2018 by Art Kleiner
Living in a World of Walls: The Backlash to Globalization
A conversation with Ian Bremmer about nationalism and populism, which will remain potent political forces — at least until some fundamental issues are addressed.
May 21, 2018 by Art Kleiner
Optimism and Trust on the CEO’s Mind
In PwC’s annual survey of chief executives around the world, respondents voiced confidence about economic growth and greater interest in corporate responsibility.
May 2, 2018 by Art Kleiner
Why Latin American Business May (Finally) Be Ready for Growth
Bernardo Vargas Gibsone, CEO of the Colombian utility and construction company ISA, sees opportunity emerging from turmoil.
March 6, 2018 by Art Kleiner and Santiago Uribe
Overcoming Challenges during a Major Transformation
Michael Pennisi, the chief executive of QSuper, one of Australia’s largest pension funds, describes how to change direction at scale.
February 21, 2018 by Art Kleiner and Josie Thomson
Unfit for Public Purpose: The Problem with Institutions Today
A conversation with Ian Bremmer about what it will take for political and economic institutions to regain their credibility. Spoiler: It involves finding new models for solving global-scale problems.
February 6, 2018 by Art Kleiner
At Oracle, Great Technology Is Not Enough
In the first interview in this series, which kicks off PwC’s 2018 CEO Survey, chief executive Safra Catz explains the broad culture shift brought on by AI and cloud technologies.
January 12, 2018 by Art Kleiner
The Management Styles in Pirates of the Caribbean
And what they tell us about China’s Belt and Road Initiative, Industry 4.0, and Silicon Valley dynamics.
January 9, 2018 by Art Kleiner
The Problem of Virtuous Leadership
According to Adam Smith scholar Ryan Patrick Hanley, executives can navigate today’s turbulence only by learning to see themselves as others might see them.
December 6, 2017 by Art Kleiner
Jeremy Rifkin on How to Manage a Future of Abundance
The influential economic theorist looks ahead to a world of virtually free energy and zero marginal cost production, and to a desperate race against climate change.
November 13, 2017 by Art Kleiner and Juliette Powell
The Monsters under the Desk
The true test of a strategic leader is being able to recognize, and having the courage to eradicate, subtle problematic ideas.
October 30, 2017 by Art Kleiner
What Happens When Machines Know More About People than People Do?
Artificial intelligence may learn to track predispositions and personality traits, turning our inner personalities into a detectible second skin.
October 16, 2017 by Art Kleiner
Are We on the Verge of a New Golden Age?
A long-wave theory of technological and economic change suggests the financial malaise that began in 2007 may be about to end.
August 28, 2017 by Carlota Perez, Leo Johnson, and Art Kleiner
What the Body Tells Us about Leadership
In this Thought Leader interview, social presencing theater innovators Otto Scharmer and Arawana Hayashi describe how to develop your management skills through physical awareness.
August 7, 2017 by Art Kleiner
Eileen Fisher and the Personal Side of Leadership
Is it fair to ask employees to embrace personal growth, on top of everything else they do? Yes, according to the apparel company CEO. See also “Eileen Fisher on Leadership: The Personal Side of Organizational Change.”
June 8, 2017 by Art Kleiner
The Next Pop Superstar Just Might Be a Robot
Shelly Palmer, one of the world's leading digital-technology commentators, talks about the evolution of the entertainment and media industry.
April 26, 2017 by Deborah Bothun and Art Kleiner
Wanted: Ambidextrous Leaders
Leaders who fully understand strategy and execution are rare. Those who can make it work are even rarer. We’re looking for examples.
April 10, 2017 by Art Kleiner
The Thought Leader Interview: GE’s Bill Ruh on the Industrial Internet Revolution
During the next few years, says GE Digital’s leader, the Industrial Internet will turn every company into a digitally empowered enterprise.
February 1, 2017 by Art Kleiner and John Sviokla
The Neuroscience of Strategic Leadership
Research shows how leaders can take the high road less traveled. See also “How Strategic Leaders Use Their Brain."
December 5, 2016 by Jeffrey Schwartz, Josie Thomson, and Art Kleiner
Inclusion Is More Strategic Than Ever
By setting your company up for growth, you have already made a strong, implicit commitment to diversity. The political events of 2016 could help you deliver on that promise.
November 30, 2016 by Art Kleiner and Paul Leinwand
The Forgiveness Mandate
The 2016 presidential election has shown that no secret is safe; we’d better learn to distinguish acceptable transgressions from non-acceptable ones.
November 4, 2016 by Art Kleiner
Four Tracks to Market Leadership
Trends spotted by Strategy& suggest that companies in any industry can gain prominence by choosing the right approach.
October 24, 2016 by Jeffrey Rothfeder and Art Kleiner
In the Country of the MBAs
What you need to learn before you start studying management.
August 24, 2016 by Art Kleiner
Pro-LGBT Companies in Anti-LGBT Countries
A global study coauthored by NYU law professor Kenji Yoshino found a range of business benefits in promoting gender-identity rights.
August 2, 2016 by Art Kleiner
The Way the Media Industry Works
Former NBC Universal CEO Bob Wright looks back on his two decades at GE — and forward to a post-broadcast, post-cable media world.
July 5, 2016 by Art Kleiner
How Superbosses Can Transform Your Talent Strategy
For Dartmouth professor Syd Finkelstein, “glorious bastards” such as Larry Ellison, “iconoclasts” such as Alice Waters, and “nurturers” such as Jon Stewart are models for the next generation of leadership development.
June 7, 2016 by Art Kleiner
Remembering Joel Kurtzman
A brief tribute to s+b’s founding editor, who died on April 6, 2016.
April 10, 2016 by Art Kleiner
Danaher’s Instruments of Change
An s+b Roundtable: Highly focused and diversified, this industrial company grows through acquisition, customer-facing innovation, and continuous improvement.
February 8, 2016 by George L. Roth and Art Kleiner
Sovereign Wealth Funds Can Be Management Leaders
Two leaders of an Australian fund explain how they challenged deceptive messages about investment capability, and raised the game of the companies they work with.
January 13, 2016 by Art Kleiner and Josie Thomson
The Next Big Questions in Management
Analysts have been studying business organizations for more than a century. But our inquisitions are just beginning.
December 15, 2015 by Art Kleiner
Bran Ferren on the Art of Innovation
A celebrated proprietor of R&D ateliers explains how companies can cultivate the rare people who create miracles.
October 21, 2015 by Art Kleiner and Juliette Powell
20 Questions for Business Leaders
The entire history of management ideas can be seen as a series of answers to a few pragmatic queries.
August 24, 2015 by Art Kleiner and Nancy A. Nichols
Are Marshall Goldsmith’s Triggers the Only Way to Change?
The world’s most eminent executive coach demonstrates the high level of discipline needed for sustainable leadership development.
June 23, 2015 by Art Kleiner
Mark Bertolini’s Preventive Disruption
For Aetna’s CEO, the lauded move to raise employee wages is just part of a broader strategy to adapt to changes in healthcare.
April 13, 2015 by Jon Katzenbach, Gretchen Anderson, and Art Kleiner
Ellen Langer on the Value of Mindfulness in Business
A pioneer in mindfulness research says that companies can promote innovation and their own rejuvenation by setting the right context. And watch the video “Mindfulness for Senior Executives.”
February 9, 2015 by Art Kleiner
The Talents of the Neurodiverse
Arguments over the value of autism could affect our view of the purpose of business.
November 24, 2014 by Art Kleiner
China’s Philosopher-CEO Zhang Ruimin
Haier’s leader describes how he built a winning global company by continually reframing his management philosophy.
November 10, 2014 by Art Kleiner
Joel Kurtzman’s Case for Economic Optimism
The founding editor of strategy+business argues that the United States is about to launch an epic new wave of growth.
October 13, 2014 by Art Kleiner
Remembering Warren Bennis
A consummate humanist and pioneer of management thought leadership has passed away.
August 13, 2014 by Art Kleiner
Thomas Malone on Building Smarter Teams
The head of MIT’s Center for Collective Intelligence explains how the social intelligence factor is critical for business success.
May 12, 2014 by Art Kleiner
A New Life for strategy+business
Our firm, now called Strategy&, joins the PwC network.
April 3, 2014 by Art Kleiner
The Importance of Being Mindful
It’s not just a trend; companies can be more effective by fostering contemplative awareness in every aspect of their processes and practices.
March 11, 2014 by Art Kleiner
Why We Should Deregulate the Government
To be effective, a government needs the same thing as a business: good management.
December 10, 2013 by Art Kleiner
The Dynamic Capabilities of David Teece
To U.C. Berkeley's long-standing strategy thinker, companies gain an edge only when they evolve in ways no one else can match.
November 11, 2013 by Art Kleiner
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 Péladeau
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
Surviving State Capitalism
Political risk expert Ian Bremmer argues that the prevailing Western corporate model faces stiff competition from government-controlled economies.
May 25, 2010 by Art Kleiner
The Thought Leader Interview: Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries
INSEAD’s expert on leadership development clarifies how self-awareness can break the destructive pattern of corporate narcissism.
May 10, 2010 by Art Kleiner
The Organization Is Alive
To change an organization from within, it helps to understand four basic circulatory systems, analogous to the channels of communication in a living body.
April 5, 2010 by Art Kleiner
Getting China Right
Booz & Company’s Edward Tse believes that, despite the challenges in today’s headlines, companies should take a long-term view when shaping their China strategy.
March 22, 2010 by Art Kleiner
Management by Reflection
Managing author Henry Mintzberg believes that to improve business schools, we must first understand the essence of what managers do.
March 15, 2010 by Art Kleiner
When Disruptive Integration Comes to Health Care
For The Innovator’s Prescription coauthor Jason Hwang, the real solution to health-care costs lies in the business models that incumbent companies have not yet embraced — but can no longer ignore.
March 1, 2010 by Gil Irwin, Art Kleiner, and Joyjit Saha Choudhury
The Thought Leader Interview: Erik Brynjolfsson
MIT’s theorist of productivity draws a link between innovation in management practice and ongoing prosperity.
February 23, 2010 by Art Kleiner
The Evolution of Technology
To economist W. Brian Arthur, the value of innovation depends on harnessing the natural progression of shared knowledge.
January 4, 2010 by Art Kleiner
The Thought Leader Interview: Gretchen Daily
A leading proponent of natural capital valuation says we can build long-term prosperity by assigning prices to the ecosystems next door.
November 24, 2009 by Art Kleiner
The Thought Leader Interview: Tim Brown
The CEO of Silicon Valley–based design firm IDEO contends that elegant, customer-centric design stems from a simple set of thinking practices.
August 27, 2009 by Art Kleiner
A “Hands-on” Approach to Surviving the Recession
Noble Group CEO Richard Elman discusses risk, opportunity, and his growth strategy for the commodities business.
June 23, 2009 by Art Kleiner and Laura W. Geller
Esther Dyson: The Thought Leader Interview
A long-standing champion of high-tech innovation foresees a fundamental shift toward more transparent institutions and a more relationship-driven economy.
May 26, 2009 by Art Kleiner
Making It Easy to Do the Right Thing
In recovering from a crisis, ethical business practice and high performance aren’t opposed.
March 3, 2009 by Art Kleiner
The Age of Heretics: Lessons from Three Generations of Management Thinkers
The most valuable management principles and practices often started as countercultural — and many continue to be. In this Webinar, Art Kleiner will discuss the nature of corporations and the role of the heretics — the people who raise difficult questions on behalf of the organizations they work for. These days, with conventional wisdom failing, heretics are needed more than ever.
February 24, 2009 by Art Kleiner
The Age of Heretics: Lessons from Three Generations of Management Thinkers
February 24, 2009 by Art Kleiner
7 Ways Forward
How to rebuild your capabilities for long-term growth in a time of turmoil.
February 24, 2009 by Art Kleiner
Fulvio Conti: The Thought Leader Interview
The CEO of Europe’s second-largest utility says that energy companies must adapt in a fast-changing global marketplace.
August 26, 2008 by Art Kleiner
Anyone Around Here Nervous?
Public relations guru Robert Dilenschneider on getting ahead when everyone else is concerned about falling behind.
March 25, 2008 by Art Kleiner
Pankaj Ghemawat: The Thought Leader Interview
The seer of “semiglobalization” argues for appreciating regional distinctions.
February 26, 2008 by Art Kleiner
Signals for the Coming Year
Change may be certain, but for a business decision maker, some changes have more impact than others. Here are eight trends that will make the greatest difference in 2008.
January 22, 2008 by Art Kleiner
A Blueprint for Strategic Leadership
How to build an organization in which executives will flourish.
November 28, 2007 by Steven Wheeler, Walter McFarland, and Art Kleiner
Fearlessness: The Last Organizational Change Strategy
Corporate courage has faltered in the wake of September 11, 2001, and the dot-com crash. Management expert Margaret Wheatley says that leaders must face reality — and maybe abandon e-mail.
September 25, 2007 by Art Kleiner
The Thought Leader Interview: Anne-Marie Slaughter
The dean of Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School shows how networks are fundamentally changing the nature of government.
August 29, 2007 by Art Kleiner
Covering the Cost of War
Robert Hormats, an international finance expert and the author of The Price of Liberty: Paying for America's Wars, describes the problems with current U.S. fiscal policy, and how to adjust the country's spending for present and future global battles.
July 17, 2007 by Art Kleiner
Two Paths to Mastery
May 29, 2007 by Art Kleiner
Joseph Ellis: The Thought Leader Interview
The author of Ahead of the Curve explains the mysteries of the business cycle.
February 28, 2007 by Art Kleiner and Melissa Master Cavanaugh
William G. Ouchi: The Thought Leader Interview
A champion of decentralized management shows how better education means competitive advantage, but only if school principals are treated like business unit managers.
May 30, 2006 by Art Kleiner
Carlota Perez: The Thought Leader Interview
According to this influential long-wave theorist, the world is due for a technological and economic boom that truly lifts all boats. When? That’s up to us.
November 29, 2005 by Art Kleiner
Our 10 Most Enduring Ideas
To celebrate s+b’s 10th anniversary, we looked back at the conceptual breakthroughs that appeared in this magazine — and invited our readers to vote on which were most likely to last.
November 29, 2005 by Art Kleiner
Daniel Yankelovich: The Thought Leader Interview
America’s most eminent pollster says the current epidemic of business scandals must be healed through a shift in norms, not laws.
August 26, 2005 by Art Kleiner
Materials Witnesses
When companies come together to save the world, what’s more compelling — environmental results or competitive advantage?
August 26, 2005 by Art Kleiner
Leaning Toward Utopia
The Toyota Production System has revolutionized industry. James Womack and Daniel Jones believe it can transform the world.
May 25, 2005 by Art Kleiner
Beware the Product Death Cycle
The quality wars were allegedly won in the 1980s. Why, then, are we again overwhelmed by junk?
March 1, 2005 by Art Kleiner
Recombinant Innovation
The best new product ideas are hatched by collaboration, not soloists.
November 30, 2004 by Art Kleiner
The Philosopher of Progress and Prosperity
Peruvian economist Hernando de Soto has found a way to enrich the poor.
June 1, 2004 by Art Kleiner
The World’s Most Exciting Accountant
NYU Professor Baruch Lev finds vast value in intangible assets.
June 1, 2004 by Art Kleiner
Build Your Organizational Equity
There’s more to wealth creation than financial value. Think what rainmaking, reputation, and relationships can do for you and your company.
May 20, 2003 by Art Kleiner
The Man Who Saw the Future
As the pace of change in business accelerates, the legacy of Pierre Wack, the father of scenario planning, is more relevant than ever.
February 12, 2003 by Art Kleiner
Karen Stephenson’s Quantum Theory of Trust
Companies can analyze, engineer, and elevate their own human networks, says the pioneering social scientist.
October 11, 2002 by Art Kleiner
Apocalypse 2010?
Populist gadfly Jeff Gates wants today’s CEOs to build a new middle class with stock ownership plans. Or else.
October 10, 2002 by Art Kleiner
Diary of a Change Agent
You don’t have to be a CEO to create an environment that supports action. You just need a flair for imaginative networking.
July 15, 2002 by Art Kleiner
Professor Chandler’s Revolution
To the world’s most renowned business historian, what you know is more important than what you do.
April 9, 2002 by Art Kleiner
Core Group Therapy
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.
April 9, 2002 by Art Kleiner
What Are the Measures That Matter?
A 10-year debate between two feuding gurus sheds some light on a vexing business question.
January 9, 2002 by Art Kleiner
Climbing to Greatness with Jim Collins
The management scholar put 1,435 good companies through a rigorous performance analysis and discovered only 11 became great. Here’s why.
October 1, 2001 by Art Kleiner
The Bottom Line on Ethics
For executives who want to do good and do well, some long-awaited guidebooks.
October 1, 2001 by Art Kleiner
Jack Stack’s Story Is an Open Book
A small Ozarks manufacturer has a message for big companies: Open-book management can increase productivity and release entrepreneurial spirit.
July 1, 2001 by Art Kleiner
The Cult of Three Cultures
The sum of operational, executive, and engineering cultures is greater than the corporate whole.
July 1, 2001 by Art Kleiner
Zealot Profile: Siegfried Woldhek
World Wide Fund for Nature, The Netherlands Director, Action Network
April 1, 2001 by Art Kleiner
The Dilemma Doctors
Anglo-Dutch gurus Fons Trompenaars and Charles Hampden-Turner have become the go-to guys on multinational mergers. Their recipe: making opposites attract.
April 1, 2001 by Art Kleiner
Strike Up the Brand
Tom Peters galvanized a free-agent nation with his manifesto, “The Brand Called You.” But there is something missing from his vision: us.
April 1, 2001 by Art Kleiner
Elliott Jaques Levels With You
The controversial Canadian theorist claims he can create the perfect organization. Has he found the key to management — or merely a justification for bureaucracy?
January 1, 2001 by Art Kleiner
The Tyranny of "Community"
By imposing togetherness and teamwork across divisional boundaries, companies risk losing the people whose tacit knowledge actually drives growth.
October 1, 2000 by Art Kleiner
Revisiting Reengineering
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.
July 1, 2000 by Art Kleiner
Does Six Sigma Belong in Sixth Grade?
For business/school partnerships to work, companies have to listen, as well as teach.
April 1, 2000 by Art Kleiner
Corporate Culture in Internet Time
The foundation of the company is no longer the company: It's the team.
January 1, 2000 by Art Kleiner
Philip Bobbitt: The Thought Leader Interview
The constitutional scholar and national security expert defines a new era of market statehood.
by Art Kleiner
Diversity and Its Discontents
Diverse workplaces require emotional maturity, and that means confronting “rankism.”
by Art Kleiner
GE’s Next Workout
The industrial giant’s legendary learning center, Crotonville, has a new assignment: Teach every manager to be a strategist.
by Art Kleiner
Making Patient Capital Pay Off
What transforms a craze into sustained growth? Trust.
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