Back in March of 2020, I applied the techniques from “Seeing Around Corners” to what kind of economic and social future we might anticipate post-pandemic. One of the scenarios I outlined was a return to… Read more »
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What Now? The Board Agenda for 2021
“What’s next” is the question on everyone’s mind. The reality is, we don’t – and can’t – know for sure. What we can do is articulate our best hypotheses and assumptions and then pay close… Read more »
Steering Your Organization is Like Flying a Kite!
When speed and agility are at a premium, having a well-aligned operating model is absolutely crucial. Having one that doesn’t depend on constant reinforcement by leadership is even better! And yet, many leaders struggle with… Read more »
Continuous reconfiguration – commended paper by Emerald Insight
Emerald Insight commended the research behind a recent paper, Continuous Reconfiguration in the Transient Advantage Economy. In a nutshell, what I found was that firms that were capable of delivering consistent performance over a relatively… Read more »
Thinkers50 names Rita McGrath one of World’s Top 50 Leadership and Management Thinkers
Forbes Mike Myatt …being nominated for a Thinkers50 award is largely considered akin to being nominated for an “Oscar” in management and leadership thinking….These obvious disclaimers aside, I believe the Thinkers50 to be the gold standard… Read more »
Research Technology Management Reviews End of Competitive Advantage
Porter’s five forces and Hamel and Prahalad ’ s core competencies remain central concepts in corporate strategy. But in this book, Rita Gunther McGrath questions whether these ideas—both based on a belief in the need… Read more »
Making the Shift from Sustainable to Transient Advantage
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 »
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 »
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 »
An interview with Rita by Thinkers50’s Des Dearlove
A while back, I was in London and took some time to catch up with the folks behind the Thinkers50 management awards. We did a wide-ranging video in which we talk about the nature of competition… Read more »
Gems from the Ashes – How to Recover Value from Discontinued Ventures
May 19, 2000A scholarly study conducted over two years by Rita and her co-authors, Thomas Keil and Taina Tukiainen, has just been published in Organization Science.. This is our abstract: Our longitudinal study of the… Read more »
Gems from the Ashes - How to Recover Value from Discontinued Ventures
May 19, 2000A scholarly study conducted over two years by Rita and her co-authors, Thomas Keil and Taina Tukiainen, has just been published in Organization Science.. This is our abstract: Our longitudinal study of the… Read more »