Christian Stadler, Professor at Warwick University

Today, my guest is Christian Stadler, Professor of Strategic Management at Warwick Business School. Prior to joining Warwick Business School he was at University of Bath School of Management, Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, and Innsbruck University. Christian addresses fundamental strategic questions that enable companies to grow, adapt, and consistently beat their competitors .

In his new book Open Strategy. Mastering Disruption from Outside the C-Suite he explains how companies can craft strategy in a new unconventional way, one tailor-made for today’s faster, more volatile business environment. His work has been featured in the Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Bloomberg Business Week, Fast Company, Fortune/CNN, and the BBC, and has been translated into 11 languages. He also writes a Forbes blog and Thinkers50 – the premier ranking of the most influential living management thinkers in the world – listed him as a future thinker in 2013. Christian holds a Ph.D. from Leopold-Franzens Universität Innsbruck.