MARKETS, TECHNOLOGY

Rich Karlgaard

Editor-at-Large,

Forbes

Editor-at-Large at Forbes
Regular Guest on FOX News Channel's Forbes on Fox
Best-Selling Author

About Rich

Rich Karlgaard is editor-at-large and global futurist at Forbes, one of the most popular business and financial magazines, reaching 80 million people per month. He writes a column about technology, entrepreneurship, regional and economic development, and the future of business and work called Innovation Rules. He is the author of The Soft Edge: Where Great Companies Find Lasting Success, Team Genius: The New Science of High-Performing Organizations, and Late Bloomers: The Power of Patience in a World Obsessed with Early Achievement.

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Rich's Books

Rich Karlgaard

Late Bloomers: The Hidden Strengths of Learning and Succeeding at Your Own Pace

Based on years of research, personal experience, interviews with neuroscientists, psychologists, and countless people at different stages of their careers, Late Bloomers reveals how and when we achieve our full potential.

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The Soft Edge: Where Great Companies Find Lasting Success

Karlgaard examined a variety of enduring companies and found that they have one thing in common; all have leveraged their deepest values alongside strategy and execution, allowing them to fuel growth as well as weather hard times. Karlgaard shares these stories and identifies the five key variables that make up every organization’s “soft edge”:

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Life 2.0: How People Across the Country Are Transforming Their Lives to Make Their Own American Dream

In Life 2.0, Rich Karlgaard used his own personal and professional midlife crises to look at the state of the American dream—the belief in continuous personal upward mobility—and where it stands in the twenty-first century.