His most recent work is The Lords of Strategy,[1] which The Wall Street Journal has described as a "clear, deft and cogent" history of the management consulting industry.
Kiechel was elected to Phi Beta Kappa[4] and graduated cum laude in 1968, when he was commissioned into the United States Navy.
Ascending the ranks at Fortune, he published his first book, Office Hours: A Guide to the Managerial Life,[7] in 1989, which compiles many of the articles the journalist wrote for his regular column of the same name.
During this time Kiechel hosted a weekly television series on CNBC, and achieved the top position at the publication in 1994, succeeding Marshall Loeb as Managing Editor.
[8] In an unusual move, he was removed from that position less than a year later, and replaced by John Huey, who later became editor-in-chief of all Time Inc. publications.