Rita McGrath’s contribution to Long Range Planning is mentioned in this OrganizationsandMarkets.com post.
Archives for January 2011
Fantastic story about learning from failure at Best Buy
My friends over at Strategy + Innovation published a remarkable – and very honest – story from Brad Anderson, the former CEO of Best Buy. In the article, he describes the misbegotten acquisition by Best… Read more »
Apple, Don’t Weaken the Garden Walls
In a recent Harvard Business Review blog post Apple, Don’t Weaken the Garden Walls, Rita McGrath disagrees with the authors of a BusinessWeek article, Apple, With or Without Steve Jobs.
3 Signs Your Business Model is on Fire
What are the ways you can recognize warnings in real-time that your business is under attack? Business consultant Rita McGrath offers three such signposts in the latest issue of Harvard Business Review. They are: 1…. Read more »
Deep and interesting piece on knowledge management over at the HBR Blog
My colleagues Ian MacMillan, Max Boisot and Martin Ihrig have just posted a blog about some of the fascinating work they are doing in the knowledge management area. One of the big ideas they talk… Read more »
The paradox of stability admidst change
In a thought-provoking blog post, John Hagel observes that stability is not getting its fair share of press, as well all run around talking about how rapidly things are changing in the age of the… Read more »
Deflating Stress in The Workplace
HotelInteractive.com quotes Rita McGrath in an article about deflating stress: “There is a big body of research that shows stress is highly correlated with people feeling unable to control the variables that are relevant to… Read more »
Taking the time every day to learn and reflect
This article, entitled "the best way to use the last five minutes of your day" made me think about a lot of the executives I work with who are just too busy to reflect on anything at… Read more »
Profit from the Core – A growth theory is put to something of an empirical test and OUCH!
One of the more popular books on growth in recent years has been Profit From the Core, a book that suggests firms should focus their efforts on core and adjacent markets to find growth opportunities. … Read more »
Profit from the Core - A growth theory is put to something of an empirical test and OUCH!
One of the more popular books on growth in recent years has been Profit From the Core, a book that suggests firms should focus their efforts on core and adjacent markets to find growth opportunities. … Read more »
Free Download of Interview in Harvard Business Review for the first 100 subscribers
This month's Harvard Business Review features the partial transcript of an interview that I did with Sarah Cliffe on how one can tell if your business model is in trouble. The Review has offered free digital… Read more »
Learning from Failure
A MBA Admissions site cites Rita McGrath: It’s tempting to gloss over all past mistakes or errors in judgment when you’re immersed in the MBA admissions process; after all, competition for a place in a… Read more »