I was very gratified tonight to be named the 6th top management thinker in the world in London tonight at the Thinkers50 awards ceremony.  It was nice to be squeezed in between one of my beloved mentors, Mike Porter at #5, and Marshall Goldsmith, perhaps the classiest guy in our whole industry at #7.

I was shortlisted for the Breakthrough Idea Award for Integrative Thinking and for the Book Award for Fixing the Game.  I didn’t win either, but was pleased to see my Harvard College classmate Pankaj Ghemawat win the book prize for World 3.0. 

All in all, it was a lovely evening.  Thanks to Des Dearlove and Stuart Crainer, the architects of the Thinkers50.

Posted on November 14th, 2011 | Filed Under: Blog, Miscellaneous | Permalink | Comments (2)

I have been writing up a storm these days – and not keeping up this blog enough. 

You might want to take a look at these recent posts:

An obituary for Steve Jobs in the Globe and Mail;

A rant about bank CEO compensation in Reuters;

Thoughts about how to get companies to think more long term on my HBR blog;

Some advice for CEO’s on creating societal value on my HBR blog.

I hope you find these enjoyable.

Best,

Roger

Posted on October 15th, 2011 | Filed Under: Blog, Miscellaneous | Permalink | Comments (1)

I just got back from the Academy of Management meetings in Montreal. For non-business academics, this is the annual ‘trade association’ get together of approximately 10,000 business academics and administrators.

I attended for two reasons.  The first was that The Design of Business was one of the six finalists for the George R. Terry Book Award for the best business book published in the past two years.  It was an honor to be among the six finalists.  Managed by the Markets: How Finance Re-Shaped America by University of Michigan professor Gerry Davis won.  He sat next to me and was a terrific chap.  Congratulations to Gerry.

The other reason was to do a panel with Henry Mintzberg, Jeanne Liedtka and Nathan Shedroff on embracing messiness in business education.  Given my colleagues on the panel, it was loads of fun

I am deep into the manuscript of my next book, which is on the dangers of shareholder value maximization and stock-based compensation.  Five chapters down and one to go.  It is slated to be out spring-summer of next year.

All the best

Roger

Posted on August 10th, 2010 | Filed Under: Blog, Miscellaneous | Permalink | Comments (2)

I have been a little less frequent on this blog since the beginning of 2010 because I have been asked to be a regular blogger by both Harvard Business Review and The Daily Beast.  Both are fun gigs, so I have been doing that.

They will appear under Library/Regular Columns on this website. 

Thus far in January, I have written four for HBR:

Why Most CEOs are Bad at Strategy (January 6, 2010)

Why Good Spreadsheets Make Bad Strategies (January 11, 2010)

Management by Imagination (January 19, 2010)

Barack Obama’s Integrative Brain (January 26, 2010)

And thus far, I have done two for The Daily Beast:

Wall Street’s Rigged Bonuses (January 12, 2010)

Obama’s Real Wall Street Scheme, (January 22, 2010)

It has been fun and the comments have been terrific. 

Please enjoy these blogs and drop me a note if you think I should be tackling something particular on either of these sites.

Cheers

Roger

Posted on January 30th, 2010 | Filed Under: Blog, Miscellaneous | Permalink | Comments (0)