Formerly a consultant with the Tom Peters group, Harari is currently a professor in the graduate school of business at the University of San Francisco, where he teaches strategic and global management. Harari is the author of several best-selling books, including The Leadership Secrets of Colin Powell and Jumping the Curve: Innovation and Strategic Choice in an Age of Transition. His latest book is Breaking from the Pack: How to Compete in a Copycat Economy.
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Oren Harari: Should Leaders Go Back to Basics?
By Oren Harari Thursday Jul 16, 2009Over the past month, during a couple post-speech Q & A sessions, I received an intriguing question from the audience. It went something like this: Now that we’re in a recession, do you believe that leaders are de-emphasizing innovation by going “back to basics”? (A variant of this question is: Do you believe that too little risk is being taken in organizations now because leaders are going back to basics?
Column: Want to Be a Game-Changer in Today's Economy? Get Crazy
By Oren Harari Wednesday Jul 15, 2009Back in the 1970’s, Digital Equipment Corporation, or DEC, was lauded as a pioneering high-tech firm. Its PDP and VAX product lines were considered the most popular minicomputers for the scientific and engineering communities. The DEC minicomputer, in fact, was arguably a “game changer” for a corporate market that had traditionally relied on “big-iron” mainframes from the likes of IBM. The reason I bring up DEC is because in 1977, its founder and CEO Ken Olsen—a recognized high-tech “visionary”-- made the observation that he could not for the life of him figure out why anyone would want a computer in their home.
Restoring Trust in CEOs Starts with Pay
By Oren Harari Friday Jun 12, 2009Recently I was privileged to be a member of a panel discussion at the annual Milken Institute Global Conference. The title of the panel was “CEO: How Will It Stop Being a Dirty Word?” Titillating, eh?
