Fall 2005

Following his acclaimed fable, Squirrel Inc (Jossey-Bass, 2005), Steve Denning has produced his magnum opus: The Leader's Guide to Storytelling: Mastering the Art & Discipline of Business Narrative (Jossey-Bass, April 2005). It provides a comprehensive guide to using narrative in meeting the most important leadership challenges today.
 
Steve’s recent articles include: 
 
 "Build Your Brand from Within" in MWorld, the journal of the American
Management Association; Spring 2005.
 
 "Telling Your Leadership Story" in Leader to Leader, Summer 2005.
 
 "Why the Best and Brightest Approaches Don't Solve the Innovation
Paradox", in Strategy & Leadership, Vol. 33. No. 1; January/February 2005
 
 "Transformational Innovation: A Journey by Narrative," in Strategy &
Leadership, Vol. 33, No. 3; May/June 2005.

Hot off the Presses...

Right on the heels of the acclaimed What’s the Big Idea: Creating and Capitalizing on the Best Management Thinking (Harvard Business School Press, May 2003), Tom Davenport has conjured another big idea with Thinking for a Living: How to Get Better Performance and Results from Knowledge Workers (Harvard Business School Press, 2005).             

Peter Weill forges new thought leadership around IT with a new book, IT Governance: How Top Performers Manage IT Decision Rights for Superior Results (Harvard Business School Press, 2004).

Never without a story to tell, Stephen Denning and Larry Prusak offer new insights into the increasingly important art with Storytelling in Organizations: How Narratives and Storytelling Are Transforming 21st Century Management (Elsevier, 2004).

Another big idea generator, Joel Kurtzman has brought us MBA in a Box: Practical Ideas from the Best Brains in the Business (Crown, 2004).

Steven Barley’s Gurus, Hired Guns and Warm Bodies: Itinerant Experts in a Knowledge Economy (Princeton University Press, 2004) was nominated as one of Amazon’s ten best business books of 2004.

Mandatory reading for CIOs in every firm, Marianne Broadbent’s new book, The New CIO Leader: Setting the Agenda and Delivering Results (Harvard Business School Press, 2004), spells out how information systems can deliver results that matter — and how CIOs can become the enterprise leaders they should be.