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February 27, 2015

4 Ways To Improve Unproductive Meetings

In my Experts column at the Wall Street Journal, I describe the kinds of behavior that sap energy, time and general usefulness out of meetings, and suggest four specific remedies. Have a look.

Filed Under: Strategy Execution

May 15, 2014

Sustainable advantage, Transient Advantage and Organizational Change

In an insightful blog that is part of a series HBR is running on the intersection between Strategy and Innovation, editor Sarah Cliffe interviews colleague Don Sull, who argues that you can think of the… Read more »

Filed Under: Insights and ideas, Strategy Dynamics, Strategy Execution, Transient Advantage, Uncategorized

April 28, 2014

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 »

Filed Under: Articles, Innovation, Strategy Execution

March 19, 2014

Organizational agility: The CEO’s top concern?

Last week at the Managing Partners’ Forum held on March 12 in London, Caspar de Bono of the Financial Times opened this high-level conference for leaders of professional services firms with an observation about the… Read more »

Filed Under: Business Strategy, Strategy Dynamics, Strategy Execution, Thought Sparks

August 29, 2013

Can Your Career Survive Transient Competitive Advantage?

Theodore Kinni of Strategy & Business highlighted a chapter in Rita McGrath’s book dealing with career change: If our employers begin rejiggering their businesses’ portfolios at a faster pace, our jobs are going to get… Read more »

Filed Under: News Archives, Strategy Execution

July 31, 2012

Disruption visits law firms

Be a doctor or a lawyer – that was once the route to a guaranteed good life.  Both professions are seeing an erosion of that premise, with legal work being the most dramatic victim.  … Read more »

Filed Under: Business Strategy, Strategy Dynamics, Strategy Execution

April 3, 2012

Ron Adner’s response to my “Better Place” question

As promised, I asked Ron what he thought about A Better Place, a company that I'm very struck with that has the potential to transform our relationship with energy.  Turns out he'd given them a… Read more »

Filed Under: Innovation, Opportunities, Strategy Execution

August 26, 2011

New HBR article:  Living with Complexity and Link for Free Download

Gokce Sargut and I are working together on the fascinating subject of how organizations can sensibly and strategically cope with the demands of complex situations.  One of the papers from our ongoing research project is… Read more »

Filed Under: Growth Options / Real Options, News Archives, Strategy Execution

April 8, 2011

Humanities Graduates Bring …well…Humanity to Bear at Work

I thought this extremely thought provoking blog post by fellow Harvard Blogger Tony Golsby-Smith  was a great reminder that although analytical tools and frameworks can help solve certain kinds of problems, they are hopeless facing other situations…. Read more »

Filed Under: News Archives, Strategy Execution

April 5, 2011

Prioritization – never an easy thing

Scott Anthony of Innosight wrote a great blog post:  3 ways to prioritize a long list of ideas which provides some good insight into how to start.   I'll add to that::  I also try to… Read more »

Filed Under: Innovation, Opportunities, Strategy Execution

March 22, 2011

What Lynda Gratton has been up to

Lynda is a good friend and a gifted analyst of organizations in the wild.  I thought my readers might be interested in her latest news update, which follows: Dear Rita, I’m really excited to update… Read more »

Filed Under: Strategy Execution

March 20, 2011

T-Mobile & AT&T!  Oops…just kidding around about the network thing, honest!

Apple has certainly inspired a lot of imitators. Among them a series of ads in the "I'm a Mac / You're a PC" vein basically insulting AT&T's network coverage.  Oops.  And worst of all, they can't even pull the ads… Read more »

Filed Under: Fun, News Archives, Strategy Execution

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