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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…
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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 …
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Rita McGrath
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