Glenn Rifkin

Glenn Rifkin is a veteran journalist and author who has been a regular contributor to the New York Times for nearly 30 years. His newest book is Future Forward: Leadership Lessons from Patrick McGovern, the Visionary Who Circled the Globe and Built a Technology Media Empire.

He is the author of several business books including Radical Marketing: From Harvard to Harley, Lessons From Ten That Broke the Rules and Made It Big, The CEO and the Monk, The Ultimate Entrepreneur: The Story of Ken Olsen and Digital Equipment Corporation, and Thoreau’s Backyard: Musings From a Small Town. He has written extensively on leadership and business for a variety of publications including Briefings, Harvard Business Review, Strategy & Business, Forbes, the Boston Globe and the Wall Street Journal. During the 1980s, Rifkin was the features editor at Computerworld, an IDG publication, where he first got to work with Patrick McGovern.

Rifkin lives in Acton, Massachusetts with his wife Jane and their dog Lucy.