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An exclusive survey shows CEOs are comfortable with their ability to handle threats and discontinuities, even though most anticipate adjustments to internal operations.

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

Lockheed Martin Corporation, Corporate Executive Vice President for Shared Services

Projecting the future used to be a bold, adventurous enterprise. Today's business seers — John Naisbitt, Watts Wacker, et al. — are doing all they can to keep up with the present.

This broadcaster has built and leveraged powerful commercial brands, all while keeping a careful eye on its nonprofit mission.

Communications are suffering from an overemphasis on graphics and multimedia that are turning boardrooms into video-game parlors. Learn the art of storytelling to get your agenda across.

A.B.B., The Dancing Giant: Creating the Globally Connected Corporation by Kevin Barham and Claudia Heimer (260 pages, Pitman Publishing Ltd., 1998)

Leading Corporate Transformation: A Blueprint for Business Renewal by Robert H. Miles (256 pages, Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1997)

Wellsprings of Knowledge: Building and Sustaining the Sources of Innovation by Dorothy Leonard-Barton (334 pages, Harvard Business School Press, 1995)

Discontinuous Change: Leading Organizational Transformation by David A. Nadler, Robert B. Shaw, A. Elise Walton et al. (295 pages, Jossey-Bass, 1994)

Akshat Dubey is a leader in the Cleveland office of Strategy&, PwC’s strategy consulting practice. He specializes in mergers and restructuring in the consumer, retail, and industrial sectors.

Pressured by shareholders, boards are humbling once-imperial CEOs — in ways that may contribute to lower returns, Booz Allen Hamilton’s annual study finds.