Walter Kiechel III

Could America exceptionalism use a consultant? Walter Kiechel joins Jim Blasingame to talk about the concept of American exceptionalism and why the government could use the jaundiced eye of a good management consultant.

Are management consultants getting a bad rap? Walter Kiechel joins Jim Blasingame to discuss what consultants do and how the Democrats plan to use Romney’s background against him may not work.

Mitt Romney’s candidacy has put management consultants on the political radar. Walter Kiechel joins Jim Blasingame to discuss the interest in management consultants and private equity firms because of Mitt Romney’s career history.

Imagine, if you can, the world of business - without corporate strategy.

Remarkably, fifty years ago that's the way it was. But in the 1960s, four mavericks and their posses instigated a profound shift in thinking that turbocharged business as never before, with implications far beyond what even they imagined. In The Lords of Strategy, renowned business journalist and editor Walter Kiechel tells, for the first time, the story of the four men who invented corporate strategy as we know it and set in motion the modern, multibillion-dollar consulting industry: Bruce Henderson, Bill Bain, Fred Gluck, and Michael Porter.

Providing a window into how to think about strategy today, Kiechel tells their story with novelistic flair. At times inspiring, at times nearly terrifying, this book is a revealing account of how these iconoclasts and the organizations they led revolutionized the way we think about business, changed the very soul of the corporation, and transformed the way we work.

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