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Let me start off by stating that I have no knock against government – I have a degree in public policy and was a hard-working employee of the City of New York for many years,… Read more »

George Colony (CEO of Forrester Research) noted the following on his post-Davos blog: I always go to Davos with one question to ask all of the luminaries. This year’s question was: “Coming out of the… Read more »

In this interview in Enterprise Leadership, Ron Pierantozzi, the former Chief Innovation Officer at Air Products and Chemicals, Inc., explains how he and his team helped jump-start innovation led growth programs. Ron has been a… Read more »

Those of you who follow my blog are obviously interested in driving growth and managing to be strategic in high-uncertainty environments.  What you may not know is that myself, Ian MacMillan and a great group… Read more »

Back in 2005, I posted the following blog: Is Steve Jobs playing the options game?  In our book ‘The Entrepreneurial Mindset’ we argued that uncertain ventures could be treated as the real asset equivalent of… Read more »

For those of you interested in learning more about what goes on at Columbia’s Executive Education programs they have just put togther a pretty neat video which features many of my esteemed colleagues (and a… Read more »

I’ve been following the research published by Manta a fascinating company that I first encountered when I went out to do a keynote speech at Tech Columbus.  Their latest small business survey finds the following:… Read more »

Courtesy of a colleague at a major publisher:  “Well, I first started with Discovery Driven Growth and I found it really hard, a little too rigorous for me.  Then I read the other books (Entrepreneurial… Read more »

I recently ran across the web site for Madden Communications, a company that we wrote about in our book MarketBusters.  Madden is still notable for their success at business model transformation – going from a… Read more »

I was fascinated to read that Taco Bell has picked up on a tactic that we wrote about in our book MarketBusters:  40 Strategic Moves that Drive Exceptional Business Growth.  In the book, we describe… Read more »

I ran across this amusing post by Erin Murphy, who blogs about innovation on her re-discovery of our first book together The Entrepreneurial Mindset.  The book does suggest that uncertainty needn’t be an enemy, and… Read more »

Rosabeth Moss Kanter has a real knack for picking up on the zeitgeist, with her most recent work being her new book “Supercorp” about companies that do good, do well, are family friendly, make tons… Read more »