Innosight recently interviewed Rita McGrath, excerpted below. To read the entire interview, click here. You argue that competitive advantage is dying and that companies need to embrace the idea of transient advantage. What do you… Read more »
Thought Sparks
Rita McGrath : Strategy in Volatile and Uncertain Environments
eTalks.com interviewed Rita McGrath recently in which she answered a question about strategy: Strategy is fundamentally about making choices. Choices, of course, about what to do but equally importantly about what not to do. I… Read more »
Innovation Watch reviews The End of Competitive Advantage
Innovation Watch writes: “Chances are the strategies that worked well for you even a few years ago no longer deliver the results you need. Dramatic changes in business have unearthed a major gap between traditional… Read more »
Rita McGrath interviewed by The Irish Times
The Irish Times writes: “Finding a real competitive advantage in an industry has been likened to discovering the Holy Grail in the corporate strategy stakes. However, it’s an increasingly elusive goal, according to US management… Read more »
Transient Advantage: New article in HBR
In a new article featured in the June Harvard Business Review, I offer a summary of my new book. Essentially, that strategy is stuck! We've locked ourselves into a view of strategy that depends on… Read more »
What does Tumblr bring to Yahoo?
A few folks have been asking me what I think about this acquisition. I actually think it makes a lot of sense – relative to what Facebook spent to capture users ($30/user) or what Google… Read more »
Interview with Dorie Clark in Forbes
May 16, 2013Interview at Forbes with Dorie Clark (author of The Brand of You) in Forbes on-line. The basic idea behind the article is that we need a different way of thinking about strategy when… Read more »
A requiem for Competitive Advantage – Forbes Interview by Dorie Clark
Last month, I was invited to give a talk at the National Association of Broadcasters on the core theme of my new book. While there, I met the smart and savvy Dorie Clark, who did… Read more »
A requiem for Competitive Advantage - Forbes Interview by Dorie Clark
Last month, I was invited to give a talk at the National Association of Broadcasters on the core theme of my new book. While there, I met the smart and savvy Dorie Clark, who did… Read more »
The perils of being a publicly traded firm
Over at my blog on the HBR site, you'll find some commentary on how difficult it is to cope with the constant changes necessary to be adaptive in a fast-moving economy under the glare of… Read more »
Broadcasters on the brink? Why skyrocketing media pay should be a red flag.
On my blog at HBR, I observed that the business model for broadcasting is showing some cracks and that a new one is likely to emerge. Interestingly, a recent New York Times article points out… Read more »
The Hourglass Economy and the Fate of J. C. Penney’s
This month, I've been doing a lot of thinking about the consequences of what some have termed the "hourglass" economy, in which there is growth at the low end of the income spectrum (a boon… Read more »