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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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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
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Feb 12
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Rita McGrath
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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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January 2024
Anticipating today’s smart devices – in 1999!
In the late 1990s, my colleague and I were invited to write a book which eventually became “The Entrepreneurial Mindset.” I had reason to go back and…
Jan 31
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Rita McGrath
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Fighting Back against the algorithms – Community and the redemption of Taylorism?
As algorithms have come to dominate the lives of gig workers, treating many like poorly performing robots, community structures are emerging that allow…
Jan 24
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An inflection point comes for Pharmaceutical Companies
The Inflation Reduction Act for the first time allowed Medicare and Medicaid to negotiate with drugmakers for pharmaceutical prices. It also contained a…
Jan 16
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Rita McGrath
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