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January 19, 2023

2022 in the Rear-View Mirror!-Yearly Round Up

Ideas – Thought Sparks  Rebuilding Ukraine – huge risks, but potentially huge opportunities. Remembering the extraordinary Frances Hesselbein. How can you tell when a competitive advantage is going into erosion?  One of my most requested articles (and a… Read more »

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

January 10, 2023

If your organization operates as a multi-layer bureaucracy, it’s headed for extinction

Image credit:  https://elearningindustry.com/reasons-why-talent-development-is-important Happy New Year!  Ram Charan and I co-authored an article just out in this month’s Harvard Business Review about how technology is creating the conditions for what we call the “permissionless” corporation…. Read more »

Filed Under: Business Strategy, Discovery Driven Planning, Growth, Growth Options / Real Options, Profitable Organic Growth

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

December 7, 2022

Early warnings of a fading competitive advantage

As the world begins to open up and I’m back on the speaking circuit, a question I get asked again and again is how one can tell when a once-robust competitive advantage is starting to… Read more »

Filed Under: Business Strategy, Competition, Discovery Driven Planning, Seeing Around Corners

November 1, 2022

What does Ford’s decision to drop Argo AI Mean for autonomous driving?

Big flashy billion-dollar investments. Leaders optimistically pronouncing totally unrealistic launch dates. Geeky engineers becoming the darlings of the moment. Yes, the story of Ford’s foray into autonomous cars has it all! The autonomous driving bubble… Read more »

Filed Under: Business Strategy, Innovation, Innovation Flops, Insights and ideas

October 25, 2022

Simultaneous discovery – or the sincerest form of flattery? Board Committee research

Two topics here – how to get Boards focused on science and technology for the long term, and how good ideas can get … um … discovered? Image Source The difference a special Board committee… Read more »

Filed Under: Business Strategy, Discovery Driven Planning, Growth, Growth Options / Real Options, Leadership, Seeing Around Corners

September 23, 2022

When Business Cases Teach the Wrong Lessons

Jeffrey Pfeffer, in his great book “The 7 Rules of Power” declares that “success excuses (almost) everything.”  Success also determines which stories about the origins of that success get told and which headlines are buried. … Read more »

Filed Under: Business Start Ups / Entrepreneurship, Business Strategy, Case Studies and Applications, Discovery Driven Planning, Growth, Growth Options / Real Options, Innovation Flops, Strategy Execution

September 6, 2022

Think everybody has a positive view of creativity? Think again!

Of course, we believe that creativity is a universally great thing – thinking otherwise is like dismissing hope or truth! In his conversational, approachable book, New York Times Pulitzer Prize winning author Matt Richtel takes… Read more »

Filed Under: Business Strategy, Careers, Complexity, Friday Fireside Chat, Growth, Individuals, 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

August 23, 2022

A Conversation with EY Entrepreneur of the Year, Stephen Bailey

Source: https://medium.com/authority-magazine/stephen-bailey-of-execonline-5-steps-we-must-take-to-truly-create-an-inclusive-representative-ed63b5576844 It isn’t just anyone who can run an organization that has an impact on tens of thousands of leaders in over 100 countries, but ExecOnLine co-founder Stephen Bailey is that person. Prompted by a… Read more »

Filed Under: Business School, Business Strategy, Individuals, Seeing Around Corners

August 16, 2022

Three Kinds of Competition to Have on Your Radar

In traditional strategic thinking, beating the competition, by finding an attractive position in an attractive industry, is the name of the game. An updated perspective suggests you need to be paying attention to at least… Read more »

Filed Under: Business Strategy, Case Studies and Applications, Discovery Driven Planning, Friday Fireside Chat, Growth, Seeing Around Corners, Thought Sparks

August 2, 2022

How LEGO used Agile Principles to Accelerate Innovation

Source:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCXMx7RcZ5I   Agile methods – in which work is done in parallel by cross-functionally staffed teams – has been the subject of a lot of hype. How refreshing, then, to discover examples of firms… Read more »

Filed Under: Business Strategy, Growth, Growth Options / Real Options, Leadership, Opportunities, Seeing Around Corners

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