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If it acts like a bubble, and sounds like a bubble, when will we realize it’s a bubble?
When inflated beliefs about future value come into conflict with actual underlying value, conditions are right to create a bubble. Housing prices will…
Apr 23
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Rita McGrath
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If you want a guarantee, buy a refrigerator!
The concept of purpose has been having quite a moment – from books heralding its importance to claims that it holds the key to the hearts and minds of…
Apr 16
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Rita McGrath
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If you want a guarantee, buy a refrigerator!
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Welcome to the world, SparcHub!
After 8 years since founding Valize, 4 changes of software approaches, more than 50 iterations of my Columbia Executive Education program “Leading…
Apr 10
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Rita McGrath
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March 2024
When you miscalculate the value of brands – a rare cautionary tale from Warren Buffett
Some things in strategy are thought to be eternally valuable. Among them? Big global brands with years of mass-market advertising and great name…
Mar 26
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Rita McGrath
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Beyond the doomscrolling – movement building for positive change
Some additional thoughts from the Powershift conference that took place in February in California – guests included artists, business leaders and even…
Mar 12
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Rita McGrath
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The Drugs Have Won and the Smart Money Knows It (credit to Jake Novak for this great line)
What do you do when your most visible and notable spokesperson basically declares that what you’re doing is ineffective? We’re about to find out how WW…
Mar 5
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Rita McGrath
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February 2024-Round Up
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Mar 4
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Rita McGrath
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February 2024
An Artist, An Author and an Inventor Go Into a Bar…
Peter Sims, author of the new book “Black Sheep: The Quest to be Human in an Inhuman Time” regularly convenes a group of artists, thought leaders…
Feb 27
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Rita McGrath
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Could you benefit from Belonging to a Peer-to-Peer Network?
The old recipes for making a firm a talent factory have eroded. Executive development programs provided formal training specific to organizational…
Feb 20
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Rita McGrath
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Could you benefit from Belonging to a Peer-to-Peer Network?
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Why are so few people talking about the massive wealth transfer to women?
Until astonishingly recently in the sweep of human history, women in the United States had little control over their financial assets, and despite the…
Feb 13
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Rita McGrath
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January 2024-Round Up
Rita's Special Treat!
Feb 12
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Rita McGrath
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January 2024-Round Up
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Our lizard lateral brains and the exponential world we’re confronting
Human brains were designed for a world of lateral change. But, as Ray Kurzweil and others remind us, learning-by-trial-and-error systems introduce the…
Feb 6
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Rita McGrath
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