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 »
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The Lesson of the Direct to Consumer Revolution: Strategy 101 still matters
Every so often a new business model, often enabled by technology, takes the world by storm, attracts a lot of hype, eventually proves unable to live up to the headlines and disappears or becomes a… Read more »
One reason Tesla Lost $10 Billion in Market Capitalization in a Breathtakingly short period of time
Understanding investor psychology can be baffling and frustrating for the managers of publicly traded corporations. For instance, despite what many would regard as a stellar track record of proven performance, CEO Mark Fields was fired… Read more »
An #Innovation Maturity Scale – Where does your organization stand?
One of the projects I’ve been working on is to create a set of metrics that organizations can use to measure their level of innovation maturity. We’re piloting it with my Leading Strategic Growth and… Read more »
Forum for Dynamic Innovation at Columbia Event January 10
The last few years have seen a resurgence of what Steve Blank and other startups folks call ‘innovation theater‘. On January 10, I’ll be chatting with Steve and transformative CEO of HarperCollins, Brian Murray, about what… Read more »
Growth insights in a 45 minute Facebook live session!
No Powerpoints, no notes, just the team at Harvard Business Review, terrific and astute questions from viewers and a white board. Check out this free Facebook Live session that has already garnered over 132,000 views. In more news –… Read more »
Innovation and Jobs-to-be-Done discussed in my latest newsletter
My latest newsletter offers observations and ideas that were discussed at two CEO Summits sponsored by Innosight and featuring keynotes by Clayton Christensen and myself. We discussed Clay’s terrific new book, Competing Against Luck, some… Read more »
Why managing an opportunity portfolio leads to surprising investment decisions
There is no shortage of interesting strategic activity going on in the intertwining worlds of content creation, telecommunications and other forms of distribution. The recent sales of AOL and Yahoo! to Verizon are representative of… Read more »
Now in development: Mastering Corporate Entrepreneurship On-Line
What if you could take teams of people or individual contributors with an innovation mandate and have them go through a state of the art, hands-on and very applied journey through the essence of innovation… Read more »
Looking forward to the mach49 Mothership Blitz on Friday
As someone who has spent much of my life watching organizations fall victim to what I call the ‘transient advantage‘ economy, I’ve always been puzzled that despite its obvious importance, large organizations do a lot more… Read more »
How do we get our middle managers back into a growth mindset?
It’s been five or more years since the Great recession walloped economies all over the world, with the result that for many companies it has been a time of doing not very much but cost-cutting,… Read more »
Recording of Webinar “How the Growth Outliers Do It” now available
Last month, Columbia Executive Education sponsored a webinar based on my Harvard Business Review article about growth outliers. A webinar based on that article has been recorded. If you missed the original, feel free to… Read more »