A contributor to many leading publications, Garten writes a monthly column for Business Week on major challenges facing global business leaders.
Jeffrey Garten is the author of a number of best-selling business books including A Cold Peace: America, Japan, Germany and the Struggle for Supremacy, The Big Ten: The Big Emerging Markets and How They Will Change Our Lives, and The Mind of the CEO, and he has edited and contributed to the anthology, World View: Global Strategies for the New Economy. The Politics of Fortune: A New Agenda for Business Leaders was published in October 2002.

Garten's speeches on executive leadership often pull from over 40 extensive and highly personal interviews conducted with CEOs around the world. They answer questions such as what role should our most important business leaders play in society? How should leaders create the framework of globalization to manage the environment, train workers, and design the rules and institutions for trade, finance and communications?

In The Politics of Fortune Jeffrey Garten recommends a bold but feasible new agenda for executives - one that will not only require them to rebuild their tarnished reputations, but to partner with government in charting a new course that differs from what we've known in the 1980s and 1990s.

At a time in which globalization impacts corporate strategy as never before, corporate leaders are challenged to consider all the implications of a new economy. Garten's speech on the world economy features examples of best practices used by successful companies worldwide in moving toward global markets. He emphasizes the strategies that allow organizations to gather massive amounts of information and process it effectively.