Today’s headlines in most major newspapers have detailed the sad story of the CEO’s of the Big Three American automakers slinking off back to their offices—well, actually traveling back to their offices in private jets—after… Read more »
Thought Sparks
Thought Sparks, the brainchild of Rita McGrath, are insightful actions, strategic ideas, actionable suggestions and innovative approaches that help organizations and leaders master the future with less fear and more confidence. New episodes of the Thought Sparks Podcast are released every other Tuesday at 11am Eastern. Prior to 2025, episodes of the Thought Sparks Podcast were known as Fireside Chats.
Deer-in-the-Headlights Leadership
Rita McGrath’s blog at Harvard Business Publishing entitled Absorb Their Uncertainty — And Get Your People Unstuck was picked up by the Washington Post in an article entitled Time to Quit Your Job?
Deer-in-the-Headlights Leadership
Rita McGrath’s blog at Harvard Business Publishing entitled Absorb Their Uncertainty — And Get Your People Unstuck was picked up by the Washington Post in an article entitled Time to Quit Your Job?
Green: Nice while it lasted?
Only the blink of an eye ago, it seems, you couldn’t open a paper or read a magazine without someone talking about how ‘green’ their businesses were and how environmentalism has become a top-line concern. … Read more »
Discovery Driven Planning: Most barriers to growth are self-inflicted
I am spending today with a very well-managed, large company, and even here the long fingers of the economic slowdown are creating even more obstacles to innovation – led growth than in more ‘normal’ times…. Read more »
Characteristics of Winner-Take-All Markets: A Change in the Basis of Competition
Rita Gunther McGrath’s And the Winner Takes it All? Necessary Conditions and Entry Strategies in Winner-Take-All Market, in Strategy, Innovation, and Change: Challenges for Management has been quoted at the Business Innovation blog. To read… Read more »
Characteristics of Winner-Take-All Markets: A Change in the Basis of Competition
Rita Gunther McGrath’s And the Winner Takes it All? Necessary Conditions and Entry Strategies in Winner-Take-All Market, in Strategy, Innovation, and Change: Challenges for Management has been quoted at the Business Innovation blog. To read… Read more »
Tightwad Bank: A Lesson in Branding
Entrepreneur’s story about Tightwad Bank in Tightwad, MO quotes Rita McGrath: using a different kind of name is a “strategy that’s used by many firms to add an empathic or emotional appeal to their products… Read more »
Discovery Driven Planning & Teaching in Non-Degree Executive Education Programs
I’m just here at the Strategic Management Society’s annual conference in Cologne. It’s a meeting which aspires to bring together academics, consultants and business-people for fruitful dialogue and exchanges, although in fairness the tilt does… Read more »
Discovery Driven Planning: Why I like the term ‘business model’
I rather like the term business model because in my view it suggests a change to the way that we conceive of, create, and execute strategies. In highly uncertain, complex and fast-moving environments, strategies are… Read more »
Discovery Driven Planning: Good new book on Innovation
It’s always a welcome moment when a new perspective on innovation is offered from the folks over at Clayton Christensen’s Innosight consulting firm. They’ve just recently published a new book, The Innovator’s Guide to Growth… Read more »
Discovery Driven Planning: Not just for new businesses any more
The headlines are all around us – I just returned from a fascinating session in Seattle at the Microsoft Global Chief Information Officer summit to a pile of newspapers screaming “Washington Mutual Goes Under” and… Read more »