One of the most powerful levers for leaders to use in trying to create change is through symbolism. Symbols give meaning to activities that would otherwise lack emotion or conviction. I was thinking about this… Read more »
Archives for August 2008
Unleash the Emotional Appeal of Your Product
Rita McGrath posted to the Harvard Business Publishing site on this topic on August 20th: “In our book MarketBusters, my colleague Ian MacMillan and I encouraged companies to think about how adding an emotional appeal… Read more »
Making the Consumption Chain Smarter
Stephen L. Schwartz of Intermec Technologies and a attendee at a recent Columbia Executive Education Leading Strategic Initiatives class led by Rita McGrath wrote to her of an innovation implemented by its client Vail Resorts…. Read more »
Even law firms can use new business models - Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges
An article in Fast Company’s September issue features a Los Angeles law firm that is making big bucks with a business model that is foreign to traditional firms. For some years, I’ve worked with the… Read more »
Discovery Driven Planning: Debunking dumb entrepreneurial ideas
Wired magazine runs a regular column by “Mr. Know-It-All” in which the great mysteries of our time—such as how to retrieve porn from a laptop you’ve loaned to a friends’ child and what the correct… Read more »
Apologies for hiatus
The summer certainly took a toll on blogging for me, although all in a good cause. My parents celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary (isn’t that an accomplishment in this day and age!), and I took… Read more »
Strategy Innovation vs. Strategic Planning (Discovery Driven Planning)
Business Innovation blog posted “If you are intrigued by the potential of strategy innovation for your company, be aware that you will not get it from your current strategic planning process. You will have to… Read more »