72 Posts found for Author: Art Kleiner

Over the years corporate decision makers have been propelled by four [management] theories. The positioning theory, whose champions include Michael Porter, based its actions on staking out a place in a growing industry with manageable competition; success went to those who held a commanding place in their market. The theory of execution, led by W. Edwards Deming, Ram Charan, and Larry Bossidy, proposed that continuous … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Authors: Art Kleiner, Nadia Kubis | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Management

The influential business author and CEO explains why the practice of enlightened self-governance gives companies an edge.

Content: Thought Leader | Authors: Art Kleiner, Dov Seidman | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Ethics, Leadership, Management, Organizational Behavior

Author and scenario planning expert Betty Sue Flowers dissects the attitudes and beliefs that unconsciously influence decision makers.

Editor’s Note: very thought-provoking framework; highly recommended reading

Content: Thought Leader | Author: Art Kleiner | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Organizational Behavior

During the Great Recession, this iconic Swedish furniture company developed a new way to expand: cutting costs while increasing customer loyalty.

Content: Case Study | Authors: Art Kleiner, Deniz Caglar, Marco Kesteloo | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Industry Specific, Operations | Industry: Retail | Company: Ikea

Historian Elin Whitney-Smith looks at previous periods of disruption to understand what companies (and people) are going through today.

Content: Thought Leader | Authors: Art Kleiner, Elin Whitney-Smith | Source: strategy+business | Subject: History

An interactive diagnostic test can show you how focused your company’s activities are — with sometimes surprising results.

Content: Article | Author: Art Kleiner | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Management

The CEO of HCL Technologies describes how he focused his company on growth by engaging staff in unprecedented ways.

Content: Thought Leader | Authors: Art Kleiner, Vikas Sehgal, Vineet Nayar | Source: strategy+business | Company: HCL

Business strategy is at an evolutionary crossroads. It’s time to resolve the long-standing tension between the inherent identity of your organization and the fleeting nature of your competitive advantage.

Content: Article | Authors: Art Kleiner, Cesare R. Mainardi | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Strategy

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The yin and yang of strategic fad and fashion — the movement of business leadership from one trend to another over the past 50 years — has often led companies to make incoherent and ineffective moves. The answer is not to keep adopting new theories in hopes of finding the right answer, but to develop your own capabilities-driven strategy: your own theory of coherence for … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Authors: Art Kleiner, Cesare R. Mainardi | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Strategy

Despite their differences, all four schools of strategy represent attempts to resolve the same basic underlying problem: the tension between two conflicting business realities.

The first reality is that advantage is transient. Even the most formidable market position can be vulnerable to technological disruptions, upstart competition, shifting capital flows, new regulatory regimes, political changes, and other facets of a chaotic and unpredictable business environment.

One might assume … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Authors: Art Kleiner, Cesare R. Mainardi | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Strategy

The experience curve and growth-share matrix rapidly became popular because they worked powerfully well — at first. But in practice, these tools had a serious flaw: As retroactive analyses of a company’s past success, they made it irresistible to continue that same behavior into the future, even when circumstances changed.

Content: Quotation | Authors: Art Kleiner, Cesare R. Mainardi | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Strategy

INSEAD’s expert on leadership development clarifies how self-awareness can break the destructive pattern of corporate narcissism.

Content: Thought Leader | Authors: Art Kleiner, Manfred Kets de Vries | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Organizational Behavior

Hollywood producer, executive, and entrepreneur Peter Guber makes the case that telling purposeful stories is an essential skill for leaders.

Content: Thought Leader | Author: Art Kleiner | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Management

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.

Content: Thought Leader | Authors: Adam Kahane, Art Kleiner | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

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.

Content: Thought Leader | Authors: Art Kleiner, C.K. Prahalad | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Management

In trying to make sense of economic uncertainty, it pays to look beyond conventional wisdom for an explanatory theory of the hidden fundamentals that can drive or hinder growth. Hence this interview.

Mark Anderson is the editor, publisher, and chief correspondent of the Strategic News Service newsletter, one of the most incisive publications in its field. Ostensibly about the future of the computer and communications industries, … [ Read more ]

Content: Thought Leader | Authors: Art Kleiner, Mark Anderson | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Economics, Trends / Analysis

To change an organization from within, it helps to understand four basic circulatory systems, analogous to the channels of communication in a living body.

Content: Article | Author: Art Kleiner | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Organizational Behavior

Managing author Henry Mintzberg believes that to improve business schools, we must first understand the essence of what managers do.

Content: Thought Leader | Authors: Art Kleiner, Henry Mintzberg | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Management, People

Art Kleiner, author of The Age of Heretics: A History of the Radical Thinkers Who Reinvented Corporate Management, uncovers an effective and ongoing way to create employee alignment and accountability in Just Ask Leadership: Why Great Managers Always Ask the Right Questions, by Gary B. Cohen.

Content: Article | Authors: Art Kleiner, Gary B. Cohen | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Human Resources, Management