Strategy & Leadership
Captains in Disruption
Even when facing a crisis, some CEOs know how to anticipate the worst, plan a response, and navigate to advantage. You can do the same.
Issue 71, Summer 2013
Cover story
In this issue
Leading with Intellectual Integrity, Flight of the Drone Maker, Turning the Tables on Success, and More
- Strategy & Leadership
“It’s Time for a Change”
CEO turnover is trending high, but in a more planned and stable manner. - Strategy & Leadership
Portrait of the Incoming Class
The newest CEOs have neither the diversity nor the global backgrounds that you might expect. - Strategy & Leadership
Leading with Intellectual Integrity
One skill distinguishes the effective CEO: the ability to make disciplined and integrated choices. 
InnovationFlight of the Drone Maker
How a small firm named AeroVironment is changing the course of airplanes, automobiles, and warfare.- Organizations & People
Turning the tables on success
In today’s workplace, what goes around comes around faster, sinking takers and propelling givers to the top.
Leading Ideas
Auto, Airlines & TransportThe Next Autonomous Car Is a Truck
The obstacles to adoption are significant, but driverless technology now in development could transform long-haul trucking.
Thought LeadersInnovating for Energy’s Future
The key to clean, reliable, and affordable energy, says Southern Company CEO Tom Fanning, is a bold and balanced approach to R&D.
Strategy & LeadershipThe Wise Leader
Practical wisdom in business comes from combining the broad view with the narrow, and opportunity with constraint.
Healthcares+b Trend Watch: Big Pharma’s Potential in Emerging Markets
Emerging economies are becoming the industry's best hope for growth.
Global PerspectiveIndia’s Leadership Challenge
At many Indian companies, the development of top management has lagged behind the pursuit of technical excellence.
Essays
Culture and the chief executive
CEOs are stepping up to a new role, as leaders of their company’s thinking and behavior.
Building a Flywheel Business
By linking customers and capabilities, companies can generate the momentum for sustainable growth.
Don’t Reengineer. Reimagine.
To realize the digital potential of your business, bring the dynamics of a startup to scale.
Features
Putting an I in Healthcare
The days of the disengaged health consumer are numbered. Consumerization will transform healthcare systems, involving individuals as never before in the management of their own care.
Thought Leaders
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.
Books in Brief
Toward a Better-Informed Cynicism
A review of The Org: The Underlying Logic of the Office, by Ray Fisman and Tim Sullivan.
The Practitioner’s Tale
A review of Doing Capitalism in the Innovation Economy: Markets, Speculation, and the State, by William H. Janeway.
Many-to-Many Manufacturing
A review of Makers: The New Industrial Revolution, by Chris Anderson.
Skill or Luck?
A review of The Success Equation: Untangling Skill and Luck in Business, Sports, and Investing, by Michael J. Mauboussin.
Recent Research
The Power of “Independent” Senior Executives
Top leaders appointed by previous CEOs can help rein in the incumbent.
Trending articles
- 1.The rise of the eco-friendly consumerDuring the pandemic, people have become more sensitive to the environmental impact of their shopping decisions—and companies are responding.
- 2.10 principles of organization designThese fundamental guidelines, drawn from experience, can help you reshape your organization to fit your business strategy. See also “A guide to organization design.”
- 3.The power of feelings at workBy aligning the pursuit of business objectives with the meeting of human needs, companies can tap into powerful emotional forces in their current cultural situations.
- 4.The Lives and Times of the CEO
From 100 years back to a quarter century ahead, the evolution of the chief executive officer.
- 5.Connecting the dots in an uncertain worldBusiness professor Christian Busch makes the case that serendipity is a skill, resulting from a mindset that allows you to see and act on opportunities in seemingly unrelated facts or events.
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