The Wall Street Journal's digital network reports that Amazon is hiring hardware engineers and plotting a move to combat Apple's iPad in the hardware space. I can only react with surprise – if the story… Read more »
Thought Sparks
Resource Scavenger — A Common Innovation Job
Read Rita McGrath’s most recent Harvard Business Press blog entitled Resource Scavenger – A Common Innovation Job.
Academy of Management - Which List Matters More?
So here I am in Montreal at the annual Academy of Management meeting. It struck me with great interest that the offiical program (a phone book sized effort with program sessions, times, all the important… Read more »
Podcast Interview with the Kellogg Venture Community
August 1, 2010Host David Nosnik welcomes Rita McGrath, Professor at Columbia Business School and an expert in the fields of innovation, entrepreneurship, and strategy in volatile and uncertain environments. She is a noted author. Her… Read more »
CIO Magazine picks up on Discovery Driven Growth
August 3, 2010Discovery Driven Growth principles are featured in CIO Magazine, among them the need to avoid making big commitments to projects before you have tested assumptions!
Discovery Driven Growth - Mistakes Companies Make
CIO Magazine's recent blog post features a summary of some of the principles of Discovery Driven Growth, and links the idea to concepts of IT agility. Wouldn't it be great if CIO's and CFO's could… Read more »
Real job creation - should be required reading from Andy Grove
This article – "How to Make an American Job" should be required reading for everyone concerned about the state of our industrial commons. And many are (see this terrific post and related Harvard Business Review article by… Read more »
Brilliant reflections on skunkworks
Ah, skunkworks. Those small, agile units beloved of large organizations looking for the Next New Idea. I've written about them in the past – and outlined some of the pitfalls of setting them up and… Read more »
Eroding advantage at Motorola
My colleague Alex van Putten was kind enough to forward along this interesting image from a report written by the Silicon Alley Insider. It visually depicts the fast erosion of Motorola's competitiveness in the phone… Read more »
Brilliant observation on managing a crisis
The BP Oil spill is only one of a multitude of crises that leaders encounter on a regular basis. I had this in mind when I ran across this quote from Patrick Lagadec's most insightful… Read more »
The tax man wants me to send Staples a 1099??? An exercise in absurdity
You know those moments when you read something in the paper, convince yourself that you must have misunderstood and go back to see what the article really said? Well, I just had one of those… Read more »
More reasons not to post in haste - what you say on facebook can be used against you!
A judge has just ruled that postings to social networking sites such as Facebook and Myspace are admissable as evidence! And you thought you were protected by blocking your messages and only showing them to… Read more »