Art Kleiner is the
editor-in-chief of strategy + business, the thought-provoking
business journal published by Booz Allen Hamilton. He is also an
author, a partner in the consulting firm Reflection Learning
Associates, and a cofounder of MIT's Learning History Research
Project. Art's writing and projects focus on the evolving role and
methods of learning in organizations, business and society and have
included collaborations with the leading business thinkers, from
Peter Senge to Peter Schwartz. His award-winning books include The
Age of Heretics, a history of the movement to change corporations
for the better, from Kurt Lewin to Tom Peters, and Who Really
Matters, an examination of power in organizations. He is also the
coauthor of The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook, a frequent magazine
writer, and a former editor of The Whole Earth Catalog. He teaches a
course on the future of the telecommunications and media
infrastructure, using scenario planning methodologies, at New York
University's interactive telecommunications program.
Art Kleiner
Performed studies on groups and he has a group theory called "core
group theory".
Gigs of Art
Kleiner
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Partner,
Reflection Learning Associates
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Cofounder, MIT's
Learning History Research Project
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Former editor, The
Whole Earth Catalog
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Instructor of
scenario planning, Interactive Telecommunications Program, New
York University
Works of Art Kleiner
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Author,
Who Really Matters, the Core Group Theory of Power, Privilege,
and Success (Doubleday 2003)
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Coauthor, Schools
That Learn (2000)
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Editor, The Dance
of Change: The Challenges of Sustaining Momentum in Learning
Organizations (1999)
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Coauthor, Oil
Change: Perspectives on Corporate Transformation (1999)
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Author, The Age of
Heretics: Heroes, Outlaws, and the Forerunners of Corporate
Change (1996). An early version of the chapter on the origins of
scenario planning was published as "Consequential Heresies"
(1989).
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Coauthor, The
Fifth Discipline Fieldbook: Strategies and Tools for Building a
Learning Organization(1994)
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Author, "Ghost
Stories"
Education of Art Kleiner
Art Kleiner is the
editorial director of the Fifth Discipline series of management
books and columnist for Strategy+Business magazine and a writer,
lecturer and editorial consultant with a background in management,
interactive media, corporate environmentalism, scenario planning,
and organizational learning.
Art Kleiner published
an earlier book called "The Age of Heretics", a history of the
thinkers and practitioners who sparked the modern organizational
change movement; it was a finalist for the Edgar G. Booz award for
most innovative business book of 1996.
He is a co-author
(with Peter Senge et al) of the bestselling Fifth Discipline
Fieldbook (1994), The Dance of Change (1999), and Schools That Learn
(2000) -- a multiple-author trilogy published by Doubleday,
focusing, respectively, on organizational learning, sustaining
change in business, and the education system. He is the Director of
research and reflection at Dialogos, a consulting firm based in
Cambridge, Massachusetts, and a faculty member at New York
University's Interactive Telecommunications Program.
Art lives outside New
York City.
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