I’m pleased to invite readers of my blog to an interactive webinar with myself and Professor Paul Ingram, faculty director of the Columbia Senior Executive Program, to discuss my recent interview in Harvard Business Review… Read more »
Thought Sparks
Upcoming Webinar on Business Model Innovation – Complimentary to readers of my blog
I’m pleased to invite readers of my blog to an interactive webinar with myself and Professor Paul Ingram, faculty director of the Columbia Senior Executive Program, to discuss my recent interview in Harvard Business Review… Read more »
Expanding role for Finance Chiefs – utterly predictable
The Wall Street Journal last week published an article on the expanding role of CFO's and financial people generally in corporations. Well, it's a trend I've been watching for a while, and it isn't going to… Read more »
Advice for would-be media darlings – A hilarious YouTube series
I ran across some truly hilarious examples of desperately awful speaking to the media on YouTube. The series is a set of short clips, beginning with Media Coaching Example #1, in which a beauty contest… Read more »
Loved Scott Anthony’s Analysis of On the Brink Disrupters
Scott Anthony is one of the principles of consulting firm Innosight, a very innovative consulting company founded to capitalize on the insights into industry disruption pioneered by Clayton Christensen. Like myself, he maintains a blog… Read more »
The Confusing “Business Model” Construct
Rita McGrath’s contribution to Long Range Planning is mentioned in this OrganizationsandMarkets.com post.
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 »