Jean René Fourtou
Head of Rhone-Poulenc, France’s chemical giant; previously C.E.O. of the largest French consulting firm
Content: Thought Leader | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Management | Industry: Chemicals
Another Reason Why Companies Resist Change
A good look at why people resist change, drawing largely from the book “Managing at the Speed of Change” by Daryl R. Conner. Offers more insight on why people resist change than on how to counter the resistance.
Content: Article | Authors: Daryl R. Conner, Jay Marshall | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Change Management
The Performance Management System: Turning Strategies into Results
“Even the best strategies do not implement themselves” is the pithy opening sentence of this article. The authors suggest that many management systems come up short because they focus too narrowly on measurements and results. Measurement is not management, as they put it. Instead, they argue in favor of the Booz-Allen system, Performance Management, that continuously analyzes decision-making and draws on intra-company relationships rather than … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Authors: John K. Shank, Paul A. Branstad, Walter G. Jewett Jr. | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Consulting / Analytical Tools, Management
Lynda Applegate
M.B.A. Class of 1952 Distinguished Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School
Content: Thought Leader | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Management | Industry: Education / Training
Charles Handy
Charles Handy is Europe’s best known and most influential management thinker. In an interview with Joel Kurtzman, editor of Strategy & Business, Mr. Handy elaborates on his concept of ‘membership community’ for the corporate model of the future. ‘Corporations are not things, they are the people who run them,’ he says. ‘In order to hold people inside the corporation, we can’t really talk about them … [ Read more ]
Content: Thought Leader | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Management | Industry: Other
Jay Walker
Priceline.com’s founder and vice chairman
Content: Thought Leader | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Management
Minoru Makihara
President of Mitsubishi Corporation
Content: Thought Leader | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Management
John Quelch
London Business School dean and global marketing guru.
Content: Thought Leader | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Management | Industry: Education / Training
Keshub Mahindra
chairman of Mahindra & Mahindra, India’s 10th largest company and the country’s largest manufacturer of utility vehicles and tractors.
Content: Thought Leader | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Management | Industry: Automotive
Robert B. Reich
former secretary of labor and now Maurice Hexter Professor of Social and Economic Policy at Brandeis University’s Heller Graduate School
Content: Thought Leader | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Management
C.K. Prahalad
Harvey C. Fruehauf Professor of Business at the University of Michigan Business School and well-known strategy expert
Content: Thought Leader | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Management | Industry: Education / Training
Jeffrey E. Garten
dean of the Yale School of Management
Content: Thought Leader | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Management | Industry: Education / Training
John Kao
Lecturer at Harvard, academic director of the Managing Innovation program at Stanford University and a visiting professor at the Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Content: Thought Leader | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Management | Industry: Education / Training
Arie de Geus
author guru of organizational learning and former employee of the Royal Dutch/Shell Group of Companies
Content: Thought Leader | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Management
Warren Bennis
During his long and fruitful career, Warren Bennis has been a student, soldier, scholar, university provost, university president, student of leadership and group dynamics and distinguished professor.
Content: Thought Leader | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Management | Industry: Education / Training
Gary Hamel
visiting professor at the London Business School, co-author of “Competing for the Future” with C.K. Prahalad
Content: Thought Leader | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Management | Industry: Education / Training
Chris Argyris
James Bryant Conant Professor Emeritus of Education and Organizational Behavior at Harvard University
Content: Thought Leader | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Management | Industry: Education / Training
W. Brian Arthur
Citibank Professor at the Santa Fe Institute, a private think tank in New Mexico
Content: Thought Leader | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Management | Industry: Education / Training
Jeffrey Pfeffer
Thomas D. Dee Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University
Content: Thought Leader | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Management | Industry: Education / Training
Paul Krugman
Ford Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Has been called “The Great Debunker,” a title won from journalists and colleagues for subjecting the gloomy profession’s fads and fashions, and much of its commonly accepted wisdom, to the sharp edge of his analysis.
Content: Thought Leader | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Management | Industry: Education / Training