ReviewandObservationsonDiscoveryDrivenGrowthasaBreakthrough

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The posting listed here offers a nice perspective on how Discovery Driven Growth contributes to our understanding of growth processes.

Dates: April 13, 2009

  • Posted: Tuesday, April 14, 2009

DiscoveryDrivenGrowthreviewedatInvisibleHandwritingBlog

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Discovery Driven Growth is one of those books that I never feel I can do justice to on the show, because it is full of very helpful exercises for companies looking at growth possibilities, so full that I can never get to all of them. Also, they are challenging, which means they don't easily lead themselves to sound bites. You have to go through them to get the benefit.

  • Posted: Sunday, April 12, 2009

DiscoveryDrivenGrowthfeaturedinWhartonatWork

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The Wharton School's electronic newsletter Wharton at Work is featuring a great review of Discovery Driven Growth.

Dates: April 3, 2009

  • Posted: Sunday, April 05, 2009

MITSloanManagementReviewArticle—HowtoRethinkYourBusinessDuringUncertainty

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Rita McGrath and Ian MacMillan wrote: "The depressing headlines are only the latest manifestation of a trend that has been long in the making: the encroachment of Schumpeter's famous "gales of creative destruction" over what were once relatively stable, even mature, businesses.1 Unfortunately, leaders of many of today's more mature organizations don't have the right mindset or practices to help their organizations survive. They grew up with management practices suited to a different age -- one with higher barriers to entry, greater transaction costs, fewer capable competitors, growing and increasingly affluent markets and far less information. The environments they are facing now, however, are less predictable, more complicated and more volatile." To read the entire article, log in here.

  • Posted: Wednesday, April 01, 2009

BNETDiscoveryDrivenArticle: UseGrowthBusinesstoPromoteEmployees

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In Jeremy Dann's interview: "In the newly released book Discovery-Driven Growth: A Breakthrough Process to Reduce Risk and Seize Opportunity, Columbia’s Rita Gunther McGrath and Wharton’s Ian MacMillan reveal some dangerous traps that companies pursuing new growth platforms must avoid. Over the last two weeks, we’ve heard McGrath’s views on the best ways to define growth goals and the importance of consistency in the management of growth initiatives. Today we conclude our discussion with some “rubber to the road” advice about how managers can put a true growth agenda into action within larger organizations. To read, the entire article, click here.

  • Posted: Wednesday, April 01, 2009
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