In 2005, Bank of America did something very unusual – they introduced an innovation in financial services that customers actually liked! Called Keep the Change, the program targeted young women who were terrified of running… Read more »
Archives for September 2011
Blog posting that discusses new leadership requirements for complex systems
In a very thoughtful blog Forbes commentator Haydn Shaughnessy observes that today’s complex environments require rather different leadership skills than were necessary in merely complicated systems. Worth a look!
Webinar tomorrow on Living With Complexity – Complimentary!
Just in case you missed it, I will be conducting a webinar tomorrow on living with complexity, based on my recent co-authored article in Harvard Business Review. Click here to register for free. … Read more »
Discovery Driven planning at a personal level
In a retrospective glance at her career Whitney Johnson, now working with Clayton Christensen, suggests that discovery driven planning can work as well for individual choices as it does for new business ventures. It's interesting to… Read more »
How Boards Can Encourage Productive Failure
In a September 19, 2011 AgendaWeek.com article by Tony Chapelle, entitled How Boards Can Encourage Productive Failure, Rita McGrath is quoted. Corporate boards should expect senior managers to cook up viable strategies for growth and… Read more »
Governors State Business Professor Publishes Harvard Business Review Article
Dr. Gokce Sargut, Assistant Professor of Management at Governors State University, is co-author with Rita McGrath of Learning to Live with Complexity, the cover story in the September-October issue of Harvard Business Review. He was… Read more »
Technology organization charts - some humor sent to me
Many a truthful word is spoken in jest and is that ever true about these technology company organization charts! Check it out just for laughs here.
Technology organization charts – some humor sent to me
Many a truthful word is spoken in jest and is that ever true about these technology company organization charts! Check it out just for laughs here.