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April 6, 2022

Thought Sparks Wrap Up – March 2022

Dear colleagues: The first quarter of 2022 was as momentous as any I have ever experienced. It was emotional to join my colleagues from the LvBS Business School, the Business School of the Catholic University… Read more »

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

March 3, 2022

Thought Sparks Wrap Up – February 2022

Dear colleagues: Just when we begin to see glimmers of the emergence of whatever comes next, we are seemingly plunged into massive uncertainty once again, with geopolitical tensions and armed conflict that seemed unthinkable.  The Washington… Read more »

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

February 3, 2022

Thought Sparks Wrap Up – January 2022

Dear colleagues: I just got used to the idea of not saying “Happy new year” and here it is, February.  It’s been fun so far – I returned to teaching in person on campus in… Read more »

Filed Under: Articles, Business Strategy, Innovation, Insights and ideas, Leadership

December 16, 2021

Thought Sparks Wrap Up – November 2021

Filed Under: Articles, Business Strategy, Innovation, Insights and ideas, Leadership

September 1, 2021

Thought Sparks Wrap Up – August 2021

Dear colleagues, Welcome to the monthly newsletter, with a wrap-up of my weekly Thought Sparks and some things to watch out for in September.  If you’d like to  get the weekly Thought Sparks delivered right… Read more »

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

August 17, 2021

We need to talk about five mechanisms to avoid future catastrophe.

Humans are surprisingly adaptive creatures – many of the changes wrought by the pandemic would have been unthinkable in an earlier era.  And yet, we’re also remarkably blind to changes happening right under our noses. … Read more »

Filed Under: Articles, Business Strategy, Seeing Around Corners, Strategy Dynamics, Transient Advantage

July 28, 2021

Thought Sparks Wrap Up – July 2021

Dear Colleagues, Welcome to the monthly wrap-up of my weekly Thought Sparks newsletters. A no-nonsense guide to measuring innovation mastery (July 6, 2021) What is it like to work in an organization that has attained… Read more »

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

June 30, 2021

Thought Sparks Wrap Up – June 2021

Dear Colleagues, We’re changing things up a little with the RMG newsletter! I’ll be summarizing my weekly Thought Sparks and pointing you to other useful resources as we go, Not Buying It – When your biggest… Read more »

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

May 27, 2021

Focus and the Mission Driven Organization; It Doesn’t Have to be So Hard

Nonprofit organizations are expected to deliver results on multiple fronts.  The result can be a nightmare for prioritization.  A simple framework that spells out the tradeoffs between mission, resources, advantages and impact can help sort… Read more »

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

April 30, 2021

The Inside Baseball of Corporate Transformation

Rita McGrath and Ron Boire Hired to transform a company? The odds are against you A recent McKinsey global survey found that only 26% of executives they questioned considered their efforts to address specific performance… Read more »

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

March 30, 2021

A New Social Contract? Part 3: So Many Policies, So Little Space!

Welcome to part 3 of a three-part series, looking at the likelihood of a fundamental transformation of the basic social contract in the United States, along the lines of Roosevelt’s New Deal. D x V… Read more »

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

February 27, 2021

A New Social Contract? Part 2: Reaching for a Vision

Welcome to part 2 of a three-part series, looking at the likelihood of a fundamental transformation of the basic social contract in the United States, reflecting Roosevelt’s New Deal. The framework combines two uncertainties to… Read more »

Filed Under: Articles, Business Strategy, Innovation, Insights and ideas, News Archives, Strategy Execution, Thought Sparks

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