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The beginning of the end of school rankings as we’ve come to know them?
School rankings and other forms of measurement are intended to provide useful information to potential students and their families. But as the schools…
Rita McGrath
Feb 1
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January 2023
A heartwarming customer service story
The state of customer service across most of the economy is dreadful. A recent delightful experience at Patagonia proves that it doesn’t have to be that…
Rita McGrath
Jan 24
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2022 in the Rear-View Mirror!
Ideas – Thought Sparks Rebuilding Ukraine – huge risks, but potentially huge opportunities. Remembering the extraordinary Frances Hesselbein. How can…
Rita McGrath
Jan 19
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Hollywood, Streaming and the Decline of the Hit Driven Business Model
People have been predicting the end of Hollywood as we know it for a long time. Talking pictures were first dismissed as a novelty, then eventually…
Rita McGrath
Jan 18
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If your organization operates as a multi-layer bureaucracy, it’s headed for extinction
Image credit: https://elearningindustry.com/reasons-why-talent-development-is-important Happy New Year! Ram Charan and I co-authored an article just out…
Rita McGrath
Jan 10
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December 2022
Rebuilding Ukraine: Huge opportunity, huge risks?
I’ve been asked to offer a public lecture for Ukraine by the DTEK Academy, the learning and development arm of one of the country’s leading energy…
Rita McGrath
Dec 20, 2022
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November Roundup
Let's Catch Up!
Rita McGrath
Dec 15, 2022
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Remembering Frances Hesselbein
When leadership coach and major award winner Marshall Goldsmith describes you as the greatest leader he has ever met, that’s saying something. Frances…
Rita McGrath
Dec 13, 2022
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Early warnings of a fading competitive advantage
As the world begins to open up and I’m back on the speaking circuit, a question I get asked again and again is how one can tell when a once-robust…
Rita McGrath
Dec 7, 2022
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November 2022
Lying – or at least not telling the whole truth - as a business model comes to haunt Meta
When a major inflection point passes through, institutions and the environment take a long time to catch up. But when they do, the consequences can be…
Rita McGrath
Nov 15, 2022
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We had the Jetsons in 1962 – and autonomous driving is still out of reach
Gradually, then suddenly. That’s the line that I borrowed from Ernest Hemingway to describe the progress of strategic inflection points. They brew along…
Rita McGrath
Nov 8, 2022
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We had the Jetsons in 1962 – and autonomous driving is still out of reach
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What does Ford’s decision to drop Argo AI Mean for autonomous driving?
Big flashy billion-dollar investments. Leaders optimistically pronouncing totally unrealistic launch dates. Geeky engineers becoming the darlings of the…
Rita McGrath
Nov 1, 2022
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