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Archives for 2011

October 25, 2011

Rita McGrath nominated for The World’s 50 Leading Thinkers List

At www.iedp.com, Rita McGrath is on the shortlist for World’s 50 Leading Thinkers List. “Another professor shortlisted is Columbia Business School’s Rita McGrath whose book, Discovery Driven Growth (with Ian MacMillan), has earned her a… Read more »

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October 25, 2011

Rita McGrath nominated for The World’s 50 Leading Thinkers List

At www.iedp.com, Rita McGrath is on the shortlist for World’s 50 Leading Thinkers List. “Another professor shortlisted is Columbia Business School’s Rita McGrath whose book, Discovery Driven Growth (with Ian MacMillan), has earned her a… Read more »

Filed Under: News Archives

October 19, 2011

Looking forward to Thinkers50 event in London November 14

There will be a fair number of leading management thinkers at the forthcoming Thinkers50 event, coming up soon.  I'm really looking forward to being there. 

Filed Under: Uncategorized

October 13, 2011

Still not liking Groupon’s business model a whole lot…

In a post over at the HBR site, I note that Groupon's business model continues to be problematic.  In response, I received some updated news from Sander Daniels, who runs a site called Thumbtack that acts… Read more »

Filed Under: Strategy Dynamics

October 13, 2011

Smart ideas about pricing from Trish Gorman

My good friend and colleague, and Dean of the Jack Welch Management Institute, Trish Clifford, had a very thought provoking post over at her Forbes blog on where Netflix went wrong in its latest strategy kerfuffle,… Read more »

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October 12, 2011

Early warnings of a bubble in housing from 2004

It's amazing, isn't it, how often we ignore sensible advice when it seems unfashionable or less than desirable?  I was thinking of that when I ran across an article published in Money Magazine in 2004…. Read more »

Filed Under: Uncategorized

October 6, 2011

Link to Rita’s webinar on complexity is now live

If you missed my September 28, 2011 webinar on "Learning to Live with Complexity" and would like to see it in recorded version, you can do so by clicking on this link.  The webinar discusses… Read more »

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October 5, 2011

Rita Gunther McGrath short-listed in strategy category by Thinkers50

Rita Gunther McGrath was short-listed in the strategy category by Thinkers50, a one-every-two-years compendium of the world's top business thinkers. The category considers who CEO's would turn to for practical and imaginative strategic advice.   Awards… Read more »

Filed Under: News Archives

September 30, 2011

So much for “Keep the Change”

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 »

Filed Under: Business Strategy, Case Studies and Applications, News Archives

September 29, 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!

Filed Under: News Archives

September 27, 2011

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 »

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September 24, 2011

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 »

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