Strategy interviews

Henry Mintzberg is a world-renowned business thinker. He first came to prominence with his book The Nature of Managerial Work. Since then he has written a number of books covering a diverse range of subjects, from corporate strategy to the ordeals of international travel. A new compilation of essays titled Management? It's Not What You Think! features thirteen broadsides by the veteran observer and outspoken critic of corporate follies.

Mr Jeremy Darroch is the fifth BSkyB CEO succeeding James Murdoch in 2007 and the first internal candidate to take the chief executive role. Under his leadership BSkyB has continued to be highly successful. He has presided over a period of steady financial and operational growth coupled with successful introduction of new technological innovations and investment in standout content helping BSkyB to attain its 10 million-subscribers' goal and broadening its customer proposition.

Wayne Visser is Founder and Director of the think-tank CSR International and the author of twelve books, including nine on the role of business in society. His most recent book is The Age of Responsibility: CSR 2.0 and the New DNA of Business.

Mehrdad Baghai is Managing Director of Alchemy Growth Partners, a boutique advisory and venture firm in Sydney, Australia. He is currently co-leader of the As One flagship project, the Deloitte member firm network's global initiative on collective leadership. James H. Quigley is CEO of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited, which together with its member firms is the world's leading consulting and professional services organization.

Rick Kash is co-author of HOW COMPANIES WIN: Profiting from Demand-Driven Business Models No Matter What Business You?re In and is the founder and CEO of The Cambridge Group, one of the premier consulting firms in the United States.

Sally Bibb has more than twenty years experience working in organizations, consulting to them, studying them and writing about them. Ab expert in organizational trust and ethics, she has been studying this field for many years. As co-author of an award winning book on trust, she researched the subject and has helped many organizations to build and rebuild trust.

Mr Anthony Habgood was appointed the Chief Executive of Bunzl in 1991. He is widely credited with transforming Bunzl into a successful focused outsourcing services business. Mr. Habgood was appointed Chairman of Reed Elsevier in 2009 when he retired from Bunzl. Reed Elsevier is also being transformed although arguably it is in a better shape than most publishers to weather the economic downturn.

Mark Johnson is chairman of Innosight, a strategic innovation consulting and investing company with offices in Massachusetts, Singapore, and India, which he co-founded with Harvard Business School professor Clayton M. Christensen. He has consulted to Global 1000 and start-up companies in a wide range of industries and has advised Singapore's government on innovation and entrepreneurship. His latest book is Seizing the White Space.

Dr. Gibler teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in real estate principles, investment analysis, corporate real estate management and market analysis at Georgia State University where she is an associate professor of real estate. An active member of the American Real Estate Society, Dr. Gibler is currently the president of the International Real Estate Society. Before joining academia, she worked in city planning both as a municipal government employee and as a private consultant.

Arnoldo Hax is a world renowned expert in the fields of strategic management, operations management and operations research. He is the author and co-author of ten books and hundreds of articles in scientific periodicals. His latest book The Delta Model: Reinventing Your Business Strategy provides powerful new concepts and practical tools to guide organizational leaders into a completely different way of looking at strategy.