Biography

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Named by The Financial Times as one of the "Top 40 Business and Management Minds in the World," Oren Harari believes that, in the chaotic competitiveness of today's markets, bold and often radical management approaches are the key to top performance.

The author of the mega-blockbuster "The Leadership Secrets of Colin Powell", Harari has found that long-term financial success depends primarily on leaders' abilities to capitalize on globalization and technological advance and to launch dramatic breakthroughs in innovation, service, collaboration, mobility and speed.

His most recent book, "Break From the Pack: How to Compete in a Copycat Economy", his eighth, tells leaders how to achieve a competitive advantage in a global marketplace where all products are becoming commodities and all services are being imitated by others.

The following is a brief semi-chronological Life-and-Times of Oren Harari...

Currently, I'm Professor at the Graduate School of Business in the University of San Francisco. I teach strategic and global management to really sharp, talented MBA and executive MBA students. What's really cool about this is that I learn a lot from my students, and several of them work with me in doing cutting-edge research on the most successful organizations and leaders today.

I was honored to be chosen and interviewed as one of the 40 "best minds" in management in the world by the editors of Business Minds, published by the Financial Times (London) in Fall, 2001.

Over the past 25 years, I have had the opportunity to speak and consult with high-caliber audiences and clients on every continent on earth (okay, with the exception of Antarctica!)

If I had to point to the experience that had the greatest impact on the shape of my career, it would have to be my 12-year run with The Tom Peters Group. From 1984-1996, I was a senior consultant and speaker with that band of crazies. What a great experience that was! Talk about being on the cutting edge! From 1993-1995, I also served on the Editorial Board of Tom's monthly newsletter On Achieving Excellence.

My most recent book is my eighth one. It's called "Break From the Pack: How to Compete in a Copycat Economy". This book tells leaders how to achieve competitive advantage in a global marketplace where all products are becoming commodities and all services are being imitated by others. I describe the strategic audacity, organizational lunacy, and passionate discipline that's necessary to build new markets, products, customers, talented people, dynamic partnerships, and vibrant growth. I also tell leaders how to execute all this cool stuff, and I cap it off with my "12 Step Recovery Program" for leaders.

The reason I'm telling you all this is because Break From the Pack summarizes many of the issues that I have had great success in presenting in both my public speaking and my consultative work.

After the surprising reception of my 1996 article about Colin Powell's leadership principles (in 1999 Powell told me that it was being reprinted everywhere in DC, and my research assistant located 40 different websites featuring it), I authored "The Leadership Secrets of Colin Powell". This book has reached the NY Times, Wall St. Journal and BusinessWeek best-seller lists. In 2003, I authored a follow up corporate handbook "The Powell Principles".

One of my personal favorites is "Leapfrogging the Competition: Five Giant Steps to Market Leadership". It was rated by Management General as one of ten best business books of 1997. The book (and I) were featured in 2-hour PBS Business Channel special in 1998.

Over the past 20 years, I've contributed to many professional journals, including Harvard Business Review , Business Strategy Review, Industrial Relations and Executive Excellence. I've also contributed to numerous trade and popular publications. Currently, I'm on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Managerial Issues .

For the past two years, I have been a member of the U.S. State Department's Advisory Council on Leadership and Management.

Finally, I am an enthusiastic Founding Member of The Integrity Institute, headed by ex-Enron executive Lynn Brewer (she was one of the good ones who left the company in disgust before it imploded). The mission of the Foundation is to measure and elevate the integrity of corporations, leaders, and capital markets. I can't think of many nobler charges these days.

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