A lecturer at Stanford Graduate School of Business for more than two decades, Robert Siegel says, “I’ve taught almost 20% of the people who graduated from the GSB.” He has also served as an executive at Intel and General Electric, founded and led startups, and worked as a consultant and venture capitalist. And he is convinced that running a business today is more difficult than ever.

His latest book, The Systems Leader: Mastering the Cross-Pressures That Make or Break Today’s Companies (Crown Publishing Group, 2025), is designed to take the sting out of making the changes necessary to move from “chaos to clarity.”

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