With this interview of W.R. Goodwin, President and Chief Executive Officer of Johns‐Manville, Planning Review initiates a series of articles designed to elicit the opinion of top management on the effectiveness of planning and the proper direction for the state of the art. In simple terms the...

By asking Donald V. Seibert, Chairman of the Board of JCPenney, a number of variations on the basic question, “How do you plan?” this magazine continues its series of interviews with top management. These articles are informal and designed to reveal a chief executive officer's attitudes, his...

At a recent New York NASCP workshop titled, “Corporate Strategists Under Fire,” Fortune writer Walter Kiechel, III delivered a free‐swinging attack on consultants, strategic theory, and planners who zealously promote unrealistic strategies at the expense of commonsense management. Mr....

Planning Review interviewed T. Boone Pickens in Westchester shortly before he spoke at Business Week's “Conference on the Future” in April. Mr. Pickens is a charming propagandist, a great talker generous with his time, and an entrepreneur clearly excited about catching a ride on the flood...

For the past several years corporate America has reported anemic earnings, yet Dun & Bradstreet has merrily continued to record 15 percent earnings increases. Making money in good times and bad by supplying information services to business, D & B has become a darling of institutional investors...

Joint ventures to produce a product have been in business for decades. Nowadays they're called “strategic alliances,” and they are likely to have information gathering as a major goal. We ask venture authority Kathryn Rudie Harrigan how a firm can boost its learning potential and yet protect...

At TPF's annual conference, MIT professor Lester Thurow received a standing ovation for a keynote speech that confronted the central puzzle of our time: Is the U.S. doomed to become a second‐rate economic power in the 21st century? We have taken the liberty of recasting his presentation as an...

A very long time ago, a naive young coyote and a sardonic old bear shared the same river valley. The bear proposed that they farm the land together instead of battling over whose territory it should be. The coyote was eager to avoid a fight with the bear, and he quickly agreed. So, for many days...

Michael Hammer, the consultant often credited with coining the term “reengineering,” inspires top management at a number of cutting‐edge U.S. firms to attempt radical process redesign. Here, he updates us on this evolving management practice.

Stan Davis, the inventor of new ways of looking at practically everything in sight, is the author of the thought‐provoking books Future Perfect and with co‐author Bill Davidson, 2020 Vision.