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2008

 

 

Anyone Around Here Nervous?
2008, Leading Ideas
By Art Kleiner

Public relations guru Robert Dilenschneider on getting ahead when everyone else is concerned about falling behind.

Pankaj Ghemawat: The Thought Leader Interview
Thought Leader, Spring 2008
By Art Kleiner

The seer of “semiglobalization” argues for appreciating regional distinctions.

Signals for the Coming Year
2008, Leading Ideas
By Art Kleiner

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.

2007

 

 

Fearlessness: The Last Organizational Change Strategy
2007, Leading Ideas
By Art Kleiner

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.

The Thought Leader Interview: Anne-Marie Slaughter
Thought Leader, Autumn 2007
By Art Kleiner

The dean of Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School shows how networks are fundamentally changing the nature of government.

Covering the Cost of War
2007, Leading Ideas
By Art Kleiner

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.

Two Paths to Mastery
By Art Kleiner

Joseph Ellis: The Thought Leader Interview
By Art Kleiner and Melissa Master

The author of Ahead of the Curve explains the mysteries of the business cycle.

2006

William G. Ouchi: The Thought Leader Interview
By Art Kleiner

A champion of decentralized management shows how better education means competitive advantage, but only if school principals are treated like business unit managers.

2005

 

 

Our 10 Most Enduring Ideas
By Art Kleiner

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.

Carlota Perez: The Thought Leader Interview
By Art Kleiner

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.

Materials Witnesses
By Art Kleiner

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

Daniel Yankelovich: The Thought Leader Interview
By Art Kleiner

America’s most eminent pollster says the current epidemic of business scandals must be healed through a shift in norms, not laws.

Leaning Toward Utopia
By Art Kleiner

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

Beware Product Death Cycles
By Art Kleiner

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

2004

 

 

Recombinant Innovation
Culture & Change, Winter, 2004.
By Art Kleiner

The best new product ideas are hatched by collaboration, not soloists.
(UC Davis prof Andrew Hargadon, inventor of the Apple "gullwing" power cord and author of a book about the community nature of innovation...)

The World’s Most Exciting Accountant
Culture & Change, Summer, 2004
By Art Kleiner

NYU Professor Baruch Lev finds vast value in intangible assets.

The Philosopher of Progress and Prosperity
The Creative Mind, Summer, 2004
By Art Kleiner

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

Diversity and Its Discontents
Culture & Change, Spring, 2004
By Art Kleiner

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

Philip Bobbitt
The Thought Leader Interview, Spring, 2004
By Art Kleiner

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

2003

 

 

 

GE’s Next Workout
Culture & Change, Winter, 2003
By Art Kleiner

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

Making Patient Capital Pay Off
Culture & Change, Fall, 2003
By Art Kleiner

What transforms a craze into sustained growth? Trust.

Build Your Organizational Equity
Culture & Change, Summer, 2003
By Art Kleiner

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

The Man Who Saw the Future
Culture & Change, Spring, 2003
By Art Kleiner

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

2002

 

Apocalypse 2010?
Culture & Change, Fourth Quarter, 2002
By Art Kleiner

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

Karen Stephenson’s Quantum Theory of Trust
Creative Minds, Fourth Quarter, 2002
By Art Kleiner

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

Core Group Therapy
Culture & Change, Fourth Quarter, 2002
By Art Kleiner

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

Diary of a Change Agent
Culture & Change, Third Quarter, 2002
By Art Kleiner

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

Professor Chandler’s Revolution
Creative Minds, Second Quarter, 2002
By Art Kleiner

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

What Are the Measures That Matter?
Culture & Change, First Quarter, 2002
By Art Kleiner

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

2001

 

 

 

 

Climbing to Greatness with Jim Collins
Creative Minds, Fourth Quarter, 2001
By Art Kleiner

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

The Bottom Line on Ethics
Culture & Change, Fourth Quarter, 2001
By Art Kleiner

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

Jack Stack’s Story is an Open Book
Creative Minds, Third Quarter, 2001
By Art Kleiner

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

The Cult of Three Cultures
Culture & Change, Third Quarter, 2001
By Art Kleiner

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

The Dilemma Doctors
The Creative Mind, Second Quarter, 2001
By Art Kleiner

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

Strike Up the Brand
Culture & Change, Second Quarter, 2001
By Art Kleiner

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