2006, 6 pages
Interview by: Alistair Craven
David Hurst is a speaker, consultant and writer on management. As a reflective practitioner he has a unique niche in the field. He spent twenty-five years working in the corporate world as an effective manager and extracted from his experience some highly innovative ideas about leadership, the management of change and the dynamics of organizations that promote creativity and learning.
His book Crisis & Renewal: Meeting the Challenge of Organizational Change was published by the Harvard Business School Press in 1995. His new book on golf and management, Learning from the Links, was published by The Free Press in 2002.
For ten years David Hurst was Executive Vice-President of a large North American industrial distributor. With sales of over CDN $1 Billion, the company employed 1600 people. He began his career in retail distribution, but soon became involved in mergers, acquisitions and business turnarounds, particularly in the steel industry.
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