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Behind the scenes at the Outthinker Chief Strategy Officer Summit
There is nothing like gathering with a group of peers from other organizations and sectors to facilitate making sense of the context in which crucial…
Nov 15
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Rita McGrath
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October 2023
It’s Halloween! Speaking about X teams and leadership ghosts with MIT’s Deborah Ancona
Our conventional wisdom about teams is that factors internal to the team mostly determine how well they will operate. My LinkedIn Live guest, Professor…
Oct 31
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Rita McGrath
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It’s Halloween! Speaking about X teams and leadership ghosts with MIT’s Deborah Ancona
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Personalized strategy – without the expensive fees! My experience of being impersonated by an AI bot. Rita McGrath
Among the unintended consequences of AI applications built with few guardrails is that conventional views of what is intellectual property are upended …
Oct 24
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Rita McGrath
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Personalized strategy – without the expensive fees! My experience of being impersonated by an AI bot. Rita McGrath
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Want to help the environment? Here’s an affordable, easy, and devastatingly effective approach
When it comes to challenges like climate change, it can feel overwhelming. After all, how much of an impact can any individual have on such a massive…
Oct 10
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Rita McGrath
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Want to help the environment? Here’s an affordable, easy, and devastatingly effective approach
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Opportunities and Challenges of Driving Impact In Innovation – A Princeton Panel Discussion
A dazzling array of speakers opened a day of hearing from entrepreneurs, researchers, businesspeople, and others convened for Princeton’s Keller…
Oct 3
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Rita McGrath
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Opportunities and Challenges of Driving Impact In Innovation – A Princeton Panel Discussion
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September 2023
Remembering Brian Dovey and his book “The Idea is the Easy Part”
I was deeply saddened to learn of the sudden passing of Brian Dovey, a partner at Domain Associates and a family friend on August 27. Imagine my…
Sep 26
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Rita McGrath
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Remembering Brian Dovey and his book “The Idea is the Easy Part”
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Using behavioral insights to better segment customers
This week, we’re launching a new guidebook series at Valize, designed to share core ideas about strategy today in a convenient online format for using…
Sep 12
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Rita McGrath
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Using behavioral insights to better segment customers
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Creating value or extracting it? An existential question.
A board and governance level issue that doesn’t get nearly enough attention is whether firms are being run as value creators or value extractors. As…
Sep 6
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Rita McGrath
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Creating value or extracting it? An existential question.
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August 2023
The Rise, and Fall, of the Direct-to-Consumer Model
There was a brief period in the early 2010’s when a new business model – dubbed “direct to consumer” emerged and threatened to upend established…
Aug 29
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Rita McGrath
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The Rise, and Fall, of the Direct-to-Consumer Model
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We never seem to learn – bubbles bursting, WeWork edition
Every bubble produces its own poster children. One of the more astonishing is WeWork – a company that promised to defy the gravity of conventional real…
Aug 22
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Rita McGrath
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We never seem to learn – bubbles bursting, WeWork edition
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The Methods Most Managers Aren’t Taught – Our Leading Strategic Growth and Change Curriculum – Part 2
To recap and continue: Competitive advantages have life cycles – born in innovation, scaled up with launching, making a profit by operating and…
Aug 15
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Rita McGrath
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The Methods Most Managers Aren’t Taught – Our Leading Strategic Growth and Change Curriculum – Part 2
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The Methods Most Managers Aren’t Taught – Our Leading Strategic Growth and Change Curriculum – Part 1
Competitive advantages have life cycles – born in innovation, scaled up with launching, making a profit by operating and eventually transforming to the…
Aug 9
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Rita McGrath
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The Methods Most Managers Aren’t Taught – Our Leading Strategic Growth and Change Curriculum – Part 1
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