72 Posts found for Author: Art Kleiner

A long-standing champion of high-tech innovation foresees a fundamental shift toward more transparent institutions and a more relationship-driven economy.

Content: Thought Leader | Authors: Art Kleiner, Esther Dyson | Source: strategy+business | Subject: People

The CEO of Silicon Valley-based design firm IDEO contends that elegant, customer-centric design stems from a simple set of thinking practices.

Content: Thought Leader | Authors: Art Kleiner, Tim Brown | Source: strategy+business | Subject: People

In recovering from a crisis, ethical business practice and high performance aren’t opposed.

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

Kleiner’s freewheeling portrait gallery focuses on corporate mavericks of the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s who pioneered self-managing work teams, responsiveness to customers, grassroots organizing and other ways to imbue corporations with a sense of the value of human relationships. Starting with British management scientist Eric Trist, whose experiments in industrial democracy in the 1940s laid the groundwork for U.S. managerial innovations of the 1980s, Kleiner … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Art Kleiner | Subjects: History, Organizational Behavior

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

Content: Thought Leader | Authors: Art Kleiner, Pankaj Ghemawat | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: International, People

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

Content: Thought Leader | Authors: Art Kleiner, Melissa Master | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Management

Scenarios are imaginative pictures of potential futures, but the future they picture is just a means to an end. These conversations, at once free-flowing and rigorously constrained, are designed to help a group of people trick themselves to see past their own blind spots. Confronting the future with rigor tends to leave most people energized and enthusiastic about facing their future–even if the future looks … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Art Kleiner | Source: Whole Earth | Subjects: Management, Strategy

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.

Content: Article | Author: Art Kleiner | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Economics, People

Once, companies thought it would be hard to build partnerships with environmental groups. In fact, that proved to be easy: DuPont and McDonald’s have maintained close working relationships with the Environmental Defense Fund (now called Environmental Defense) for almost 20 years. The truly hard part turns out to be forging and maintaining relationships with other companies, especially competitors. In fact, there is a direct clash … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Art Kleiner | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Social Responsibility (ESG)

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

Content: Article | Author: Art Kleiner | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Operations, People

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

Content: Article | Author: Art Kleiner | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Economics, International

NYU Professor Baruch Lev finds vast value in intangible assets.

Content: Article | Author: Art Kleiner | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Accounting, People

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

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

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

Content: Article | Author: Art Kleiner | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Career, Organizational Behavior

The old saw “the customer comes first” is a flat-out lie, argues Kleiner, a contributing editor at strategy+business magazine and the author of several business books, in this fresh look at the structure and politics of business. He contends that “a depressing number of business corporations have evolved into organizations with one primary purpose: To extract wealth from all constitutions (not just the shareholders, but … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Art Kleiner | Subject: Management

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.

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

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

Content: Case Study | Author: Art Kleiner | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Change Management, Organizational Behavior | Company: General Electric (GE)

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

Content: Article | Author: Art Kleiner | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: People, Strategy

Ahead of the customer stand at least seven other people you’d better satisfy-or else.

Editor’s Note: a look at the author’s Core Group Theory of Power.

Content: Article | Author: Art Kleiner | Source: Across the Board (ATB) | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

Dr. Trompenaars, a 48-year-old Amsterdam-based consultant of French and Dutch descent, and Dr. Hampden-Turner, a 65-year-old British writer with a long history of social science research in America, are the two most prominent figures focusing on cultural diversity in business today. Their “dilemma theory,” as they call it, argues that we can never grow to become great business leaders until we actively strive to embrace … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Art Kleiner | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: International, Management