The New York Times small business blog You’re the Boss discusses Rita McGrath’s blog post Taxes, the structure of incentives, and why I’m worried about the plan for health reform funding at Small-Business Health Care… Read more »
Archives for July 2009
Small-Business Health Care Reform, in Theory and in Practice
The New York Times small business blog You’re the Boss discusses Rita McGrath’s blog post Taxes, the structure of incentives, and why I’m worried about the plan for health reform funding at Small-Business Health Care… Read more »
“Aligning the Organization for Growth” Discovery Driven Chapter now available
Harvard Business Publishing has released a chapterized version of the Aligning the Organization chapter from Discovery Driven Growth. To purchase and download, click here.
Sweden pulls back
I ran across a really interesting article in Forbes recently. The article quotes Sweden’s Finance Minister as encouraging the country to turn its back on the policies that, in his words, led to a “lost”… Read more »
Health care: If it’s free, why not?
One of the unfortunate aspects of the way we manage health care in this country is that many people who can’t (or don’t wish to) spend money on routine care put it off. They then… Read more »
Taxes, the structure of incentives, and why I’m worried about the plan for health reform funding
When I was a Ph.D. student studying entrepreneurship, one of the most influential articles I read was by economist William J. Baumol. Entitled “Entrepreneurship: Productive, Unproductive and Destructive”, it basically suggested that a nation gets… Read more »
Guerrilla strategies - 2009 version
Many fans of our work together have heard my colleague Ian MacMillan talk about an entrepreneurial business he was involved with in his younger years as a perfect example of a ‘guerrilla’ strategy. Guerrilla strategies… Read more »
This disruption thing is harder than it looks
In a recent Wall Street Journal article, writer Kimberly Chou reviewed the fates of several contenders to be disruptive technologies in the industries in which they were introduced. . Among these are the flip videorecorder,… Read more »
BUSINESS STRATEGIES—Ditch a project, plan for aftermath
The Toronto (Ontario, Canada) Globe & Mail quotes Rita McGrath on creating a disengagement plan. “When a project has to be shut down, we’re left feeling bruised, struggling with having to sever our emotional commitment… Read more »
BUSINESS STRATEGIES—Ditch a project, plan for aftermath
The Toronto (Ontario, Canada) Globe & Mail quotes Rita McGrath on creating a disengagement plan. “When a project has to be shut down, we’re left feeling bruised, struggling with having to sever our emotional commitment… Read more »
Unintended side effects of post-9/11 fear of flying
Garrick Blalock, Vrinda Kadiyali and Daniel H. Simon, writing in the journal Applied Economics (June 2009 – Volume 41, issue 14, pg. 1717) came to a fascinating conclusion. After the highly dramatic 9/11 attacks, many… Read more »
Rita McGrath quoted in Times Online
The Times Online (UK) article How to deal with uncertainty quotes Rita McGrath…”Companies that can’t continually renew their sources of competitiveness will find themselves without a pipeline for renewal. Consider what happened to the new-product… Read more »