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SUMMARY:Friday Fireside Chat with Jeremy Utley
DESCRIPTION:Jeremy Utley is a major presence at the Stanford Design School\, author of the recent popular book “Ideaflow” and a serial entrepreneur to boot! In what will prove to be an exciting conversation\, he and I will be talking about how you can train yourself to generate a continual flow of good ideas and how this can help you add value in your career and in life! If we get a chance\, we’ll also probe his views on entrepreneurship and what makes for a winning idea. You won’t want to miss this discussion.
URL:https://www.ritamcgrath.com/event/friday-fireside-chat-with-jeremy-utley/
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SUMMARY:Friday Fireside Chat with April Dunford (BEING RESCHEDULED)
DESCRIPTION:You have doubtless at some point been asked to fill in a “Mad Libs” style positioning statement. Product ___ offers ___ benefits to ___ target customer\, allowing them to ____. Typical. My guest this week\, April Dunford\, thoroughly debunked this nonsensical approach to positioning in her previous book “Obviously awesome” which is an amazing guide to getting positioning right. She has a new book coming on creating great sales pitches that I think will be just as illuminating – and useful! Join us for a conversation I am really excited about.
URL:https://www.ritamcgrath.com/event/friday-fireside-chat-with-april-dunford/
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SUMMARY:Friday Fireside Chat with Sheena Iyengar
DESCRIPTION:Aside from being one of my dearest colleagues at Columbia\, and someone I love to casually say I last saw at Davos\, Sheena Iyengar is one of the worlds’ foremost authorities on choice and choosing. She has a wonderful new book out on how we can find great solutions to truly difficult problems\, with lots of examples and practical tips. It’s called “Think Bigger” and we’ll be talking about it at this Friday Fireside Chat. It will be August\, so we’ll probably forgo the actual fire. Join us for what I guarantee will be a super stimulating event.
URL:https://www.ritamcgrath.com/event/friday-fireside-chat-with-sheena-iyengar/
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SUMMARY:Friday Fireside Chat - "Discovery Driven Leadership: A Valize Conversation”
DESCRIPTION:We all know that competitive advantages often don’t last\, and that means you need innovation skills to create new advantages and transformation skills to shift the center of gravity of your organization when an old advantage has eroded. But it is still a huge organizational struggle. In this webinar\, Valize partners Rita McGrath and Ron Boire will share insights from their work at Valize\, a firm founded to bring these skills into your own organization. We’ll share insights from our advisory and coaching work\, share how our discovery-driven growth software\, SparcHub is coming along\, and chat about our brand-new on-line guides which let you upskill your team at their own convenience. We’ll be following the chat and answering questions live\, so do join us for what should be a fun and fast-paced hour of conversation.
URL:https://www.ritamcgrath.com/event/friday-fireside-chat-discovery-driven-leadership-a-valize-conversation/
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SUMMARY:Friday Fireside Chat with Kai Wright
DESCRIPTION:Kai D. Wright is many amazing things – a podcast host\, an award-winning journalist\, a historian\, a novelist\, and now (as if that wasn’t enough) he’s going to be joining me by the Fireside to talk about his new projects. I had the privilege of getting to know him as a guest on his podcast project “System Overload: How Change Happens” and I’m delighted to be engaging in a conversation about how our past can inform and enlighten our future. Join us!
URL:https://www.ritamcgrath.com/event/friday-fireside-chat-with-kai-wright/
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SUMMARY:Friday Fireside Chat with Kelly Richmond-Pope
DESCRIPTION:Forensic accounting and filmmaking? How does that go together? Well\, join Kelly Richmond-Pope\, a Professor at DePaul University in Chicago as we delve in what she’s learned from years of studying fraudsters\, scammers and backroom operators of all kinds. Her new book is “Fool Me Once” and it uncovers what makes perps tick\, why victims are so gullible\, and why whistleblowers are so morally righteous. It’s serious stuff but also legitimately hilarious. Join us by the fireside in October. I’m looking forward to a fascinating conversation.
URL:https://www.ritamcgrath.com/event/friday-fireside-chat-kelly-richmond-pope/
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SUMMARY:Friday Fireside Chat - Rita McGrath & Matt Abrahams\, Author of Think Faster\, Talk Smarter
DESCRIPTION:Well\, here’s a great way to build some new\, essential skills for 2024. Who doesn’t want to rock their next informal meeting or be the one everyone remembers after some seemingly idle chit-chat? And who hasn’t had the experience of flubbing an opportunity and wishing there was a chance for a do-over? My Friday Fireside Chat guest is communications expert Matt Abrahams\, who is also a lecturer at Stanford and an award-winning podcast host. We’ll be talking about his six steps to better spontaneous speaking and get into specific situations\, such as making a pitch or giving feedback. Live online!
URL:https://www.ritamcgrath.com/event/friday-fireside-chat-rita-mcgrath-matt-abrahams-author-of-think-faster-talk-smarter/
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SUMMARY:SparcHub Demo Live Online
DESCRIPTION:SparcHub is a software app designed to make it easy to implement Rita McGrath’s famous discovery driven growth method. It allows you to track ideas and opportunities\, estimate how much uncertainty you have across your portfolio\, keep track of what teams are learning and find out quickly if projects are developing issues. It’s easy to use and very customizable. In this live virtual webinar\, Rita will demonstrate the system\, answer questions and show you how you can put it to work in your own organization.
URL:https://www.ritamcgrath.com/event/sparchub-demo-live-online/
CATEGORIES:Webinar
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SUMMARY:Friday Fireside Chat - Rita McGrath & Bob Sutton\, co-author of "The Friction Project"
DESCRIPTION:Stanford’s Bob Sutton is one of the smartest people on the planet with respect to what goes on in organizations and why (hint – he’s the guy that helps you deal with organizational A**holes). He has a brand new book coming out\, “The Friction Project” with Huggy Rao on the subtle ways in which leaders can make the right things easier and the wrong things harder. Boy do we need those insights now! Join us January 19\, 2024 at 12:00 EST.
URL:https://www.ritamcgrath.com/event/friday-fireside-chat-rita-mcgrath-bob-sutton-co-author-of-the-friction-project/
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SUMMARY:SparcHub System Live Demo
DESCRIPTION:SparcHub is a software app designed to make it easy to implement Rita McGrath’s famous discovery driven growth method. It allows you to track ideas and opportunities\, estimate how much uncertainty you have across your portfolio\, keep track of what teams are learning and find out quickly if projects are developing issues. It’s easy to use and very customizable. In this live virtual webinar\, Rita will demonstrate the system\, answer questions and show you how you can put it to work in your own organization.
URL:https://www.ritamcgrath.com/event/sparchub-system-live-demo/
CATEGORIES:Webinar
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SUMMARY:SparcHub System Live Demo
DESCRIPTION:SparcHub is a software app designed to make it easy to implement Rita McGrath’s famous discovery driven growth method. It allows you to track ideas and opportunities\, estimate how much uncertainty you have across your portfolio\, keep track of what teams are learning and find out quickly if projects are developing issues. It’s easy to use and very customizable. In this live virtual webinar\, Rita will demonstrate the system\, answer questions and show you how you can put it to work in your own organization.
URL:https://www.ritamcgrath.com/event/sparchub-system-live-demo-2/
CATEGORIES:Webinar
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SUMMARY:Friday Fireside Chat with Rita McGrath and Chip Conley
DESCRIPTION:Chip Conley is on a mission to make mid-life a welcome and joyous part of life’s journey! His new book “Learning to Love Mid-Life” is an invitation to explore the wisdom that comes with experience\, to let go of baggage that doesn’t serve you well and to transform toward a fulfilling future. He’ll be joining me by the fireside on February 23 at noon EST to talk about lessons he’s learned about making the most of this part of your life.
URL:https://www.ritamcgrath.com/event/friday-fireside-chat-with-chip-conley/
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CATEGORIES:Webinar
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SUMMARY:Friday Fireside Chat with Rita McGrath and Anupam B. Jena
DESCRIPTION:Anupam B. Jena has a day job as the Joseph P. Newhouse Professor of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School and a physician in the Department of Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital. He is also a faculty research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. His vantage point at the intersection of health care and economics landed him a role as the host of the Freakonomics MD podcast and also as the author of a fascinating book “Random Acts of Medicine.” The book draws on naturally occurring experiments to look at how chance events affect medical care. For instance\, what’s the relationship between the introduction of E-Z pass tollbooths and positive impact on babies’ health who live near them? Hint: since cars weren’t waiting in long lines any more\, there was less air pollution! For more fascinating examples\, join us.
URL:https://www.ritamcgrath.com/event/friday-fireside-chat-with-rita-mcgrath-and-anupam-b-jena/
CATEGORIES:Webinar
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SUMMARY:Friday Fireside Chat with Rita McGrath and Steve Wunker
DESCRIPTION:The phrase “innovate or die” has never been more relevant\, yet the track record of most companies for organic innovation is dismal. But\, there are leaders who demonstrate that making innovation an actual proficiency can be accomplished. Steve Wunker\, together with his co-authors Jennifer Luo Law and Hari Nair\, de-mystify the process. Examples include Microsoft’s Satya Nadella\, Panera’s Ron Shaich and Levi’s Chip Bergh. We’ll chat about their practical and useful new book “The Innovative Leader” that takes readers on a step by step approach to building innovation capability.
URL:https://www.ritamcgrath.com/event/friday-fireside-chat-steve-wunder/
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SUMMARY:Friday Fireside Chat with Rita McGrath and Barron Witherspoon
DESCRIPTION:Barron Witherspoon enjoyed tremendous success in a 38-year career with major leadership responsibilities at Procter & Gamble (as well as in a second career as an ordained minister!). Nonetheless\, the journey wasn’t always easy as a Black man making his way in corporate America. He’s now distilled his wisdom into a new book\, “The Black Exec: And the Seven Myths\,” a primer for diverse talent seeking to succeed. During this chat\, I’m hoping to learn the enduring lessons of his success\, reflect on the current state of racial disparities in America and find encouragement for what we can all do next.
URL:https://www.ritamcgrath.com/event/friday-fireside-chat-with-rita-mcgrath-and-barron-witherspoon/
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SUMMARY:Unlock Your Leadership Potential: Join the Impact Peer-to-Peer Network with insights from Rita McGrath & Ron Boire
DESCRIPTION:As you aim to enhance your leadership skills\, you face the challenge of fewer development opportunities in today’s flatter organizational structures and the need for rapid adaptation in roles with shorter tenures. The Impact peer-to-peer network offers you a solution: access to a trusted group of peers for decision support\, feedback\, and shared experiences. \nAdditionally\, you’ll gain insights from Rita McGrath’s innovative work and Ron Boire’s expertise in leadership development. Join us for a live online session to learn how this network can be a key part of your professional growth\, helping you make informed decisions quickly and confidently. \nThis is an opportunity to connect with like-minded leaders and explore how our resources\, influenced by top thought leaders\, can enhance your leadership journey.
URL:https://www.ritamcgrath.com/event/unlock-your-leadership-potential-join-the-impact-peer-to-peer-network-with-insights-from-rita-mcgrath-ron-boire-2/
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SUMMARY:Friday Fireside Chat with Rita McGrath and Paul LeBlanc
DESCRIPTION:Paul J. LeBlanc is one of my personal heroes. As President of Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU) he did what many said was impossible – he took back on-line education from predatory for-profit schools and made it possible for tens of thousands of students to graduate and seize opportunities. He’s also the author of a wonderful\, hopeful and human new book “Broken: How Our Social Systems are Failing Us and How We can Fix Them.” It’s a very human read\, infused with the wisdom of Paul’s many years of experience and with his humility as a leader. He shows us that we needn’t despair of our messed up social systems but rather can each participate in making them better.
URL:https://www.ritamcgrath.com/event/friday-fireside-chat-with-paul-leblanc/
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