by Jeffrey Hollender | Dec 15, 2009
There’s been plenty said about Wall Street’s incredible collapse and the byzantine practices and illusionary (some would say delusionary) financial products that almost brought down our economy. But not enough has been said about the pervasive mindset that...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Aug 24, 2009
Sometimes you think you have something important to say, and before you know whether you can convince anyone in the publishing community that it’s of value, you decide that you’re going to go ahead and write it anyway. That’s how I felt two years ago...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Sep 5, 2008
The bleak economy has increasingly dominated the headlines. It’s easy to see why, given the yo-yoing stock market and through-the-roof energy prices. But the economy’s difficulties have overshadowed an equally troubling trend: since the late 1960s, U.S....
by Jeffrey Hollender | Jul 9, 2008
In February of 2008, on a trip to London for the Natural & Organic Products Exhibition, I stopped by to visit John Elkington, the founder of SustainAbility and an old friend. John has worked in the environmental and sustainable development fields since 1972. In...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Jun 27, 2008
Over the years, I have frequently spoken out against companies that preach a “we’re-all-in-this-together” ethos while tolerating Austrian-Afghanistan disparities in executive-employee pay. But I have offered little in the way of a real-world solution...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Jun 8, 2008
A conversation with Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt Here are outtakes from my notes on Eric Schmidt’s talk at the Future of Management conference (see Part 4): “The culture defines the outcome,” in reference to the products and services Google...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Jun 6, 2008
Maximizing the Organization’s Potential A discussion with W. L. Gore CEO Terri Kelly Last week, at Gary Hamel’s Future of Management conference (see Part 3), I had a chance to sit down with Terri Kelly, CEO of W.L. Gore & Associates. While Gore, the...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Jun 5, 2008
All of the attendees at Gary Hamel’s conference on management innovation were assembled in one room (see Part 2). The entire group engaged in a dialogue during the day’s first few hours. It was quite amazing that 35 highly opinionated people could (for the...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Jun 4, 2008
It is impossible to describe all of the conversations at Gary Hamel’s conference on management innovation (see Part 1). The dialogue ranged from questions on whether we had the right language to describe how to drag management into the 21st century; is...
