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 »
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What will digital technologies do to education?
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 »
Complementary webinar tomorrow (January 31) “How the Growth Outliers Do It”
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 »
Davos 2012
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.
Controlling complex systems – insights from Albert-Laszlo Barabasi
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 »
Very glamorous evening at the Thinkers event!
A number of guests and Rita at the Thinkers award event.
Looking forward to Thinkers50 event in London November 14
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.
Smart ideas about pricing from Trish Gorman
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 »
Early warnings of a bubble in housing from 2004
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 »
Link to Rita’s webinar on complexity is now live
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 »
Webinar tomorrow on Living With Complexity – Complimentary!
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 »
Discovery Driven planning at a personal level
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 »