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December 15, 2022

Thought Sparks Wrap Up – November 2022

Discover This!  A collection of ideas to spark your thinking, by Rita McGrath November Happenings  After a two-year wait, I finally made it to Dublin to attend the Business Excellence Institute’s awards gala, at which… Read more »

Filed Under: Articles, Business Start Ups / Entrepreneurship, Business Strategy, Innovation, Insights and ideas, Leadership, Thought Sparks

August 30, 2022

How’s your teaming going?

The traditional model of how teams progress goes by stages – forming, storming, norming and performing. While it’s easy to remember, teams today don’t necessarily follow that model. They’re dispersed, virtual, temporary and potentially remote…. Read more »

Filed Under: Articles, Business School, Business Start Ups / Entrepreneurship, Business Strategy, Careers, Discovery Driven Planning, Leadership, Opportunities, Seeing Around Corners

July 26, 2022

Flywheels vs. Relationships – Why your business architecture matters to your initial marketing plan

In developing an initial marketing plan, it is crucial not to be confused about what kind of business architecture you are building in order to establish your initial metrics for success. Geoffrey Moore has a great… Read more »

Filed Under: Articles, Business Strategy, Growth, Innovation, Insights and ideas, Leadership, Opportunities, Seeing Around Corners

July 11, 2022

Boris Johnson, How the Powerful Escape Consequences and Jeff Pfeffer’s Fantastic Book

One of Pfeffer’s 7 rules of power is that “Success Excuses (almost) Everything:  Why This is the Most Important Rule of All.  Which perhaps explains why Britain’s Boris Johnson was able to hang onto power… Read more »

Filed Under: Articles, Leadership, News Archives, Thought Sparks

June 22, 2022

Eyes glaze over when we talk about inflation? You’re not alone. But what you don’t know can hurt you.

Chart credit:  https://www.macrotrends.net/2497/historical-inflation-rate-by-year   For anybody born after about 1985, meaning most folks under 40, all this talk about inflation seems kind of old-timey.  Indeed, as Public Radio host Kai Ryssdal (citing a story in… Read more »

Filed Under: Articles, Careers, Customer insight, Individuals, Seeing Around Corners, Thought Sparks

June 9, 2022

Thought Sparks Wrap Up – May 2022

Dear colleagues: It sure was nice to be back in person on our gorgeous new Columbia Business School campus.  My course on growth and change, called Leading Strategic Growth and Change received an evaluation of… Read more »

Filed Under: Articles, Business Start Ups / Entrepreneurship, Business Strategy, Innovation, Insights and ideas, Leadership, Thought Sparks

May 10, 2022

Thought Sparks Wrap Up – April 2022

Dear colleagues: Just when you thought the world has learned the many lessons of discovery-driven planning, some huge, ambitious project gets shot down yet again – whether for business reasons or otherwise – and we… Read more »

Filed Under: Articles, Business Start Ups / Entrepreneurship, Business Strategy, Innovation, Insights and ideas, Leadership, Thought Sparks

May 10, 2022

Bright Promise and Dashed Hopes – The AT&T Media Strategy Saga

Big, expensive unions of large and unwieldy companies almost never work out well. The sudden termination of CNN+ is but the latest casualty in a long history of things that began with a lot of… Read more »

Filed Under: Articles, Business Strategy, Growth, Innovation, Insights and ideas, Leadership, Opportunities, Thought Sparks

May 3, 2022

You can’t avoid the digital dimension of your business, even if you wanted to!

Asking what your digital strategy is today is a lot like asking what your electricity strategy was at the turn of the last century. Seems absurd. Yet both questions reflect how a shift in an… Read more »

Filed Under: Articles, Business Strategy, Digital, Growth, Innovation, Thought Sparks

April 26, 2022

Say what???? The optimistic launch and ignominious end of CNN+

The announcement that after an expenditure of something like $300 million, CNN was going to pull its CNN+ streaming service after just a month in operation sent shock waves through the media and entertainment ecosystem…. Read more »

Filed Under: Articles, Business Strategy, Case Studies and Applications, Competition, Digital, Innovation Flops, News Archives, Opportunities, Thought Sparks

April 19, 2022

What Everybody Ought To Know About Planning Under Uncertainty

  The article “Discovery Driven Planning” was published in 1995. The book-length treatment came out in 2009. And yet, we’re only now catching up to what entrepreneurs and corporate innovators have long understood – when… Read more »

Filed Under: Articles, Business Strategy, Growth, Leadership, Strategy Execution, Thought Sparks

April 12, 2022

Mind Your Introductions! A Short Essay in advance of National Imposter Syndrome Day

Imposter syndrome – that sneaking feeling that you are not worthy – can be crippling. It is especially problematic for people who are not in the majority group. As an ally, you can help in… Read more »

Filed Under: Articles, Careers, Growth, Individuals, Leadership, Thought Sparks, Women's leadership

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