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On April 12, 1 pm, at the 92nd Street Y, I will be participating in an Emerging Leaders Forum: Daniel Altman, chief economist of Big Think and best-selling author of Outrageous Fortunes: The Twelve Surprising… Read more »

I recently responded to an inquiry with the following observations: There are 7 major changes that are actually underway right now that will upend traditional education: Unbundling:  Increasingly, certification of a skill or mastery will… Read more »

Just back from Davos!  Tomorrow, Columbia Executive Education will be hosting a complementary webinar on an article that is in this months' Harvard Business Review on growth outliers.  The webinar will explore the seemingly contradictory… Read more »

I am in Davos at the World Economic Forum where I facilitated a session on Entrepreneurship and Intelligent Failure.    View my impressions here on YouTube.

In another fascinating session at the World Economic forum, Barabasi who is a distinguished Professor of Physics at Northeastern, presented some of his work on how one can 'control' a complex system.  We all know… Read more »

A number of guests and Rita at the Thinkers award event. 

There will be a fair number of leading management thinkers at the forthcoming Thinkers50 event, coming up soon.  I'm really looking forward to being there. 

My good friend and colleague, and Dean of the Jack Welch Management Institute, Trish Clifford, had a very thought provoking post over at her Forbes blog on where Netflix went wrong in its latest strategy kerfuffle,… Read more »

It's amazing, isn't it, how often we ignore sensible advice when it seems unfashionable or less than desirable?  I was thinking of that when I ran across an article published in Money Magazine in 2004…. Read more »

If you missed my September 28, 2011 webinar on "Learning to Live with Complexity" and would like to see it in recorded version, you can do so by clicking on this link.  The webinar discusses… Read more »

Just in case you missed it, I will be conducting a webinar tomorrow on living with complexity, based on my recent co-authored article in Harvard Business Review.    Click here to register for free.  … Read more »

In a retrospective glance at her career Whitney Johnson, now working with Clayton Christensen, suggests that discovery driven planning can work as well for individual choices as it does for new business ventures.  It's interesting to… Read more »