Awards, honors and new team members

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Randall, R.M. (2012), "Awards, honors and new team members", Strategy & Leadership, Vol. 40 No. 3. https://doi.org/10.1108/sl.2012.26140caa.001

Awards, honors and new team members

Article Type: Editor’s letter From: Strategy & Leadership, Volume 40, Issue 3

Happy news! We recently polled Strategy & Leadership’s contributing editors to ask which articles they thought were the best we published in 2011. I was gratified when they awarded 21 votes to 12 different articles. To me this suggests that they had many good choices. The winner of this year’s Outstanding Paper Award was Steve Denning for his article “Masterclass: the reinvention of management” (Vol. 39, No. 2). This article proposes five revolutionary shifts in management practice that, when implemented together, enable leaders to promote continuous innovation. Two articles tied for Honorable Mention: “The CEO’s ethical dilemma in the era of earnings management” (Vol. 39, No. 6) by Roger Martin, professor of strategic management at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, where he holds the Premier’s Research Chair in Productivity and Competitiveness and “Time-value economics: competing for customer time and attention” (Vol. 39, No. 1) by Adrian C. Ott, principal of the Silicon Valley-based consulting firm, Exponential Edge, Inc.

Two more S&L honors! One award goes to Ian Wilson, the first winner of the Strategy & Leadership Outstanding Service Award presented by Emerald Group Publishing. For almost four decades, he has been contributing articles to S&L (originally called Planning Review) that have been an invaluable resource for corporate leaders. An advisor and contributing editor to S&L, he is widely-recognized for co-authoring one of the best books on scenario planning, The Scenario Planning Handbook: Developing Strategies in Uncertain Times (2006). For his S&L articles Wilson drew on his experience consulting on strategic management and on his corporate career with SRI International and General Electric, where he was a pioneer in strategic planning. Wilson is a principal of Wolf Enterprises in San Rafael, California (Jason415xx@aol.com).

The second award goes to Robert J. Allio, the winner of Strategy & Leadership’s 2011 Outstanding Reviewer Award. In 1973, Allio was the founding publisher and editor of Planning Review, the precursor of Strategy & Leadership. For the past decade, he has been a prolific contributor and an outstanding member of S&L’s team of editors, a veteran group of practitioners and academics who review submissions and interview ground-breaking researchers and innovators.

I also have the pleasure of announcing the appointments of two new contributing editors, Stephen Denning and Gayle C. Avery. Denning’s latest book, The Leader’s Guide to Radical Management (Jossey-Bass, 2010), describes principles and practices required to reinvent management to promote innovation and adaptation (steve@stevedenning.com). He is the author of a number of outstanding S&L articles including “Masterclass: Reinventing management practices for continuous innovation” (Vol. 39, No. 3) and “Measuring the new bottom line of business: from outputs to customer outcomes” (Vol. 39, No. 4). Avery, Professor of Management at Macquarie Graduate School of Management, Sydney (gayle.avery@mgsm.edu.au) and Director of the Institute for Sustainable Leadership, is the author of Leadership for Sustainable Futures: Achieving Success in a Competitive World (2005) and co-author of Sustainable Leadership: Honeybee and Locust Approaches (2010). She is the author of a number of outstanding S&L articles including “Sustainable leadership practices for enhancing business resilience and performance.” (Vol. 39, No. 3) and “How BMW effectively practices sustainable leadership principles” (Vol. 39, No. 6).

Lastly, it is my privilege to announce the appointment of George Stalk to the S&L Editorial Board. Now a Toronto-based senior advisor to the Boston Consulting Group and an adjunct professor of strategic management for the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto, Stalk started with BCG in Boston in 1978. During a decade of consulting in Tokyo, he studied the sources of Japanese competitive advantage in cost, quality, and, most important, time. Stalk is the co-author of several best-selling books on time-based competition including Competing against Time and Kaisha: The Japanese Corporation. His S&L articles include “Challenging the advantages of scale: disposable factories and strategies” (Vol. 36, No. 4).

Congratulations to all!

Robert M. RandallEditor