Summary
Richard Tanner Pascale, born 1938,[1] is an academic, management theorist and business advisor.[2] He was based at Stanford Business School for 20 years and is currently (2020) an Associate Fellow of the Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford. The Economist magazine has named him "one of the leading management gurus of the past 50 years".[3]
Pascale's management works include:
- The Art of Japanese Management: Applications for American Executives (1981),[4] co-authored with Anthony Athos of Harvard Business School.[5]
- Managing On the Edge: How Successful Companies Use Conflict to Stay Ahead (1990),[6]
- Surfing the Edge of Chaos: The Laws of Nature and the New Laws of Business (2000), co-authored with Mark Millemann and Linda Gioja,[7]
- The Power of Positive Deviance: How Unlikely Innovators Solve the World's Toughest Problems (2010), co-authored with Jerry Sternin and Monica Sternin.[8]
In Managing on the Edge (1990), Pascale noted that "few of the top 500 companies in the US 10 years ago" (i.e. 1980) were still leading companies and looked for explanations for why companies decline.[6] Pascale has catalogued management fads (or business fads), enumerating 37 different new management ideas which emerged between 1950 and 2000.[9]
Several of these texts are co-authored. In The Power of Positive Deviance, Pascale took the lead in writing up observations and reflections based on the work of his co-authors Jerry and Monique Sternin, fieldworkers and Positive Deviance practitioners who had undertaken Peace Corps child development work in Vietnam, observed by Pascale. The work of the Sternins was also observed in Bangladesh, Indonesia, Myanmar, Uganda, Argentina and the Pittsburgh VA Hospital and incorporated into the book.[10]
He earned his MBA at Harvard Business School.[11]
References edit
- ^ The Economist, Guru: Richard Pascale, published 12 December 2008, accessed 28 December 2020
- ^ Pascale, R. T., Millemann, M. and Gioja, L. Changing the Way We Change, Harvard Business Review, November-December 1997, accessed 29 December 2020
- ^ Saïd Business School, Richard Pascale, accessed 28 December 2020
- ^ Pascale, R. T. (1981), The Art of Japanese Management: Applications for American Executives, Simon & Schuster
- ^ Harvard Gazette, Anthony G. Athos dies at 68: Was a scholar in interpersonal and organizational behavior, published 9 January 2003, accessed 21 July 2022
- ^ a b Pascale, R. T. (1990), Managing On the Edge: How Successful Companies Use Conflict to Stay Ahead, Viking
- ^ Pascale, R. T., Millemann, M. and Gioja, L. (2000), Surfing the Edge of Chaos: The Laws of Nature and the New Laws of Business, Crown Business
- ^ Pascale, R. T., Sternin, J., Sternin, M. (2010), The Power of Positive Deviance: How Unlikely Innovators Solve the World's Toughest Problems
- ^ Brown, P., Forget Management Fads – It's Simply a Case of Putting Trust in Your People, Kogan Page, published 10 August 2015, accessed 23 July 2022
- ^ Positive Deviance Collaborative, Official Book, accessed 7 January 2021
- ^ https://www2.open.ac.uk/openlearn/business_thinkers_static/people/pascale.html