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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 the former publisher Forbes (1998-2018) and currently global futurist for Forbes Asia. He writes the “Tech Connector” column for Forbes Asia and is principal moderator at the annual Forbes Global CEO Conference. He is a speaker and panel moderator at business and financial events around the world. Mr. Karlgaard’s 2014 book on innovation culture, The Soft Edge, examined successful corporate cultures. It featured an afterword by the late Harvard Business School professor, Clayton Christensen. Rich’s 2015 book, Team Genius, was praised by Microsoft CEO, Satya Nadella. His 2019 book, Late Bloomers, was favorably reviewed by National Public Radio’s Morning Edition, The New Yorker, Harvard Business Review, Financial Times, and Wall Street Journal, which selected Late Bloomers for its C-Suite book club.

Rich's Books

Late Bloomers: The Hidden Strengths of Learning and Succeeding at Your Own Pace
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.
The Soft Edge: Where Great Companies Find Lasting Success
Rich Karlgaard

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

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.