| Founded in 1995 as a quarterly magazine dedicated to The Best Ideas in
Business, strategy+business is an award-winning thought leadership
publication for the Chief Executive Officers of Fortune 1000 companies --
and the people who influence them. It serves as a bridge between idea and
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| 5. The Essential Drucker: In One Volume the Best of Sixty Years of Peter
Druckers Essential Writings on Management, by Peter F. Drucker,
HarperCollins Publishers, HarperBusiness, 2001 |
| Randall Rothenberg, President and Editor-in-Chief of strategy+business
media, which includes strategy+business, the award-winning quarterly
business magazine, and other business publications aimed at top business
executives. Mr. Rothenberg is also an editor-at-large and media/marketing
columnist for Advertising Age magazine. |
| The obsession with quantification, especially in the business world, makes
it all the more difficult to discern the measures that matter and the ones
we can trust. Boyle argues that our trouble in understanding complex
economic and sociological problems is linked to our over reliance on simple
statistical explanations. |
| strategy+business has always looked ahead to identify the ideas that drive
business, says Randall Rothenberg, President and Editor-in-Chief of
strategy+business media. But some ideas come and go and others are built to
last. The best selling books can easily be found on bestseller lists, but
how can business leaders identify books with enduring influence and value?
This special issue introduces our readers to books with ideas that have
stood the test of time and continue to shape the present and future. |