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May 17, 2023

Assumptions are treacherous – just ask Lululemon about Mirror

In high uncertainty situations, one can obviously make decisions that turn out not to be so great. But seriously, do you want to be the CEO featured in a headline “How A Ballerina Outmaneuvered you”?… Read more »

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

May 10, 2023

Thought Sparks Wrap Up – April 2023

Reflecting this month on a spate of bad news, and how CEOs and other humans tend to react.  The good news is that bad news mobilizes us.  The bad news is that we can get… Read more »

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

April 13, 2023

Thought Sparks Wrap Up – March 2023

Yes, we are well into 2023 and if we’re going to make an impact, now is the time to get started.  Considering that it takes 3-6 months to get anything accomplished, you should be starting… Read more »

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

March 8, 2023

Thought Sparks Wrap Up – February 2023

Yes, we are already staring down at the end of the first quarter.  We’re back in person, back in airports, back at conferences, but … back to the office?  The jury is still out. In case… Read more »

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

February 9, 2023

Thought Sparks Wrap Up – January 2023

An antidote to bureaucracy?  Perhaps 2023 becomes the year that more organizations take advantage of technology to create what my co-author Ram Charan and I call the Permissionless Organization.  By using technology to get the outcomes… Read more »

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

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

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

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

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 »

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July 19, 2022

From Funnels to Flywheels

Traditional sales organizations used the concept of a sales “funnel” to describe the process through which potential customers move, ending up with sales at the end. Winners today have abandoned that way of thinking in… Read more »

Filed Under: Business Start Ups / Entrepreneurship, Business Strategy, Case Studies and Applications, Seeing Around Corners

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

June 8, 2022

Who knew there is so much in common between the rare successes in mega-projects and innovation?

Photo: The Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, designed by Frank Gehry   Bent Flyvbjerg studies spectacular mega-project flameouts.  I study (often) spectacular innovation mis-steps.  Who knew the process that produces both has so… Read more »

Filed Under: Business Start Ups / Entrepreneurship, Business Strategy, Growth, Innovation, Thought Sparks

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