Richard Pascale
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June 14, 1938
- Management Theorist
- Business Advisor
- Business Professor
- Author
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| Born | Richard Tanner Pascale June 14, 1938 USA |
| Died | May 24, 2024 USA |
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Richard Tanner Pascale (June 14, 1938–May 24, 2024[1][2]) was an American academic, management theorist and business advisor.[3] He earned his MBA at Harvard.
He was based at Stanford Business School for 20 years and was named an Associate Fellow of the Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford in 2020. The Economist magazine has named him "one of the leading management gurus of the past 50 years".[4]
Pascale's management works include:
- The Art of Japanese Management: Applications for American Executives (1981),[5] co-authored with Anthony Athos of Harvard Business School.[6]
- Managing On the Edge: How Successful Companies Use Conflict to Stay Ahead (1990),[7]
- Surfing the Edge of Chaos: The Laws of Nature and the New Laws of Business (2000), co-authored with Mark Millemann and Linda Gioja,[8]
- The Power of Positive Deviance: How Unlikely Innovators Solve the World's Toughest Problems (2010), co-authored with Jerry Sternin and Monica Sternin.[9] This book is seen as a contributing precursor to the concept of SEED-SCALE.
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.[7]
Pascale also catalogued management fads (or business fads), enumerating 37 different new management ideas which emerged between 1950 and 2000.[10]