ABOUT STEVE DENNING

Steve Denning is the author of six business books on leadership, innovation, leadership storytelling, and Agile management, as well as a novel and a volume of poems.

Since 2011, Steve has been writing a leadership column for Forbes. com, where he has published more than 700 articles on innovation, Agile management, and the constraints to its implementation. (You can find his articles at blogs.forbes.com/stevedenning.) Steve has been named by A. T. Kearney as “one of the top ten digital innovation influencers on Twitter.”

In November 2000, Steve was named by Teleos as one of the world’s “ten most admired knowledge leaders.” In April 2003, Steve was ranked as one of the world’s top 200 business gurus by Thomas Davenport and Laurence Prusak in What’s the Big Idea? (Harvard Business School Press, 2003).

Steve is a member of the Advisory Board of the Drucker Forum, headquartered in Vienna, Austria, and led sessions at the Drucker Forum in 2014, 2015, and 2016. From 2013 to 2016, he was a member of the board of Scrum Alliance, a nonprofit association of more than 500,000 software developers.

In 2016 and 2017, Steve was named by the Agile Alliance as an “Agile Stalwart.” He leads the SD Learning Consortium in which firms, including Barclays, CH Robinson, Cerner, Ericsson, Fidelity Investments, Microsoft, and Vistaprint, are sharing insights on the ongoing transition in making their organizations Agile.

Since 2000, Steve has worked as a consultant and speaker for scores of Fortune 500 companies and government agencies. From 1969 to 2000, he held many management positions at all levels at the World Bank:

As director of Knowledge Management from 1996 to 2000, he spearheaded a successful strategic shift in the World Bank.

From 1990 to 1994, he was director of the Southern Africa Department of the World Bank.

From 1994 to 1996, he was director of the Africa Region of the World Bank.

Business books by Steve Denning include:

The Leader’s Guide to Radical Management: Reinventing the Workplace for the 21st Century (Jossey-Bass, 2010). Selected by 800-CEO-READ as one of the best five books on management in 2010.

The Secret Language of Leadership: How Leaders Inspire Action Through Narrative (Jossey-Bass, 2007). Selected by the Financial Times as one of the best books of 2007 and by 800-CEO-READ as the best book on leadership in 2007.

The Leader’s Guide to Storytelling: Mastering the Art and Discipline of Business Narrative (Jossey-Bass, 1st ed., 2005; 2nd ed., 2011).

Squirrel Inc.: A Fable of Leadership Through Storytelling (Jossey-Bass, 2004).

The Springboard: How Storytelling Ignites Action in Knowledge-Era Organizations (Butterworth Heinemann, 2000).

Coauthor of Storytelling in Organizations: How Narrative and Storytelling Are Transforming Twenty-first Century Management (Elsevier, 2004).

Steve has published more than thirty articles for the management journal Strategy & Leadership; the following pieces were named Outstanding Article of the Year:

“The Reinvention of Management: Part 1: Principles,” Strategy & Leadership 39, no. 2 (2011).

“Metrics for the Emerging Creative Economy,” Strategy & Leadership 42, no. 5 (2014).

“Understanding the Three Laws of Agile,” Strategy & Leadership 44, no. 6 (2016, shared prize).

Steve has written four articles for Harvard Business Review:

“Telling Tales,” May 2004, https://hbr.org/2004/05/telling-tales.

“The Internet Is Finally Forcing Management to Care About People,” May 2015, https://hbr.org/2015/05/the-internet-is-finally-forcing-management-to-care-about-people.

“Capitalism’s Future Is Already Here,” September 2014, https://hbr.org/2014/09/capitalisms-future-is-already-here/.

“Making Management as Simple as Frisbee,” June 2013, https://hbr.org/2013/06/making-management-as-simple-as.