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Archives for March 2009

March 30, 2009

Rita’s rules for email

A blog post over at the Harvard Publishing site led me to put together my own "golden rules for email." As follows: Rita's Golden Rules for email: 1. Meaningful subject lines that tell the reader… Read more »

Filed Under: Strategy Execution

March 30, 2009

Rita’s rules for email

A blog post over at the Harvard Publishing site led me to put together my own "golden rules for email." As follows: Rita's Golden Rules for email: 1. Meaningful subject lines that tell the reader… Read more »

Filed Under: Strategy Execution

March 30, 2009

Be unafraid to change your mind - when new data come in

One of the core tenets of a discovery driven approach to decision-making is that under conditions of high uncertainty, striving to be “right” can lead you very much astray.  Being right, in the sense of… Read more »

Filed Under: Discovery Driven Planning

March 29, 2009

Business Week Features Rita’s Blog on the AIG Bonuses: Why the Facts Don’t Matter

March 27, 2009Businessweek online has featured Rita’s recent blog on the AIG bonuses and the way in which companies and leaders make symbolic mistakes. You’ll find the link here.

Filed Under: News Archives

March 29, 2009

Business Week Features Rita’s Blog on the AIG Bonuses: Why the Facts Don’t Matter

March 27, 2009Businessweek online has featured Rita’s recent blog on the AIG bonuses and the way in which companies and leaders make symbolic mistakes. You’ll find the link here.

Filed Under: News Archives

March 29, 2009

Sign of the times - overheard at the Whole Foods Market checkout this morning

Whole Foods Market is running a promotion in which shoppers can donate at the checkout to support making micro-credit loans to impoverished people in the less developed world.  As part of the promotion, the cashier… Read more »

Filed Under: Uncategorized

March 27, 2009

Rita McGrath comments on personal branding in these difficult times

March 26, 2009Dan Schawbel interviewed Rita for his personal branding blog. Among the topics discussed were how small businesses can grow in these tough times, steps to take to reinforce a personal brand, and what… Read more »

Filed Under: News Archives

March 26, 2009

Discovery Driven Growth soon to be available in a Kindle edition

Our publishers over at Harvard Business Publishing have arranged for Discovery Driven Growth to be available in a Kindle version within the next 2-6 weeks (so sometime before the end of April, 2009).  I would… Read more »

Filed Under: Discovery Driven Planning

March 25, 2009

Discovery Driven Growth:  Systematic Mistakes in planning new ventures (Interview)

Jeremy Dann a talented observer of the technology and innovation scene and a fellow sometime academic has been following the ideas we’ve talked about in Discovery Driven Growth as well as themes we’ve developed in… Read more »

Filed Under: Discovery Driven Planning

March 25, 2009

McGrath comments on APM MarketPlace story on taxing AIG bonuses

March 25, 2009Rita McGrath commented on a news story covered by APM Marketplace reporter Ashley Milne-Tyte about the lack of virtue in government using the tax code to express frustration with symbolic excess. You can… Read more »

Filed Under: News Archives

March 24, 2009

A Better Way to Cut Costs featured at Business Exchange

Rita McGrath’s Harvard Business post on A Better Way to Cut Costs was featured at BusinessWeek.com as Recession Business Planning. To read the post, click here.

Filed Under: News Archives

March 24, 2009

Overview of Discovery Driven Growth by John Caddell, marketing guru

It’s always rewarding for an author to have work respected by one’s peers.  So imagine my delight when John Caddell posted a review of Discovery Driven Growth on his Caddell Insight Group web site.  …. Read more »

Filed Under: Uncategorized

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