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December 2023-Round Up

WFH? RTO? Remembering the Allen Curve and Why It Matters Now

On the agenda for 2024 – a better way to keep track of your innovation portfolio?

Behind the scenes at the Outthinker Chief Strategy Officer Summit

It’s Halloween! Speaking about X teams and leadership ghosts with MIT’s Deborah Ancona

Personalized strategy – without the expensive fees! My experience of being impersonated by an AI bot. Rita McGrath

Want to help the environment? Here’s an affordable, easy, and devastatingly effective approach

Opportunities and Challenges of Driving Impact In Innovation – A Princeton Panel Discussion

Remembering Brian Dovey and his book “The Idea is the Easy Part”

Using behavioral insights to better segment customers

Creating value or extracting it? An existential question.

The Rise, and Fall, of the Direct-to-Consumer Model

We never seem to learn – bubbles bursting, WeWork edition

The Methods Most Managers Aren’t Taught – Our Leading Strategic Growth and Change Curriculum – Part 2

The Methods Most Managers Aren’t Taught – Our Leading Strategic Growth and Change Curriculum – Part 1

Big Food, the Diet Industrial Complex and now, miracle drugs?

Pick mine, pick theirs, but pick a tool and stick with it!

Management Tools: Cycling through the concepts

Thinking Wrong: How to Trick our Brains into Being More Innovative

Frustrated with a culture that isn’t innovative? You’re probably missing a key management practice.

What We Should Learn From the Tragic Failure of the Titan

Are you squandering your intelligent failures?

NPV doesn’t work for risky, high-potential projects. Here’s a better approach.

Can’t Buy Me Growth…A Cautionary Tale

May 2023-Round Up

Are you boring your Investors? Here's how to tell.

Blast from the past – how companies behaved in 2008 is how a lot of them are behaving now

Assumptions are treacherous – just ask Lululemon about Mirror

April 2023-Round Up

How a Threatening Situation can turn Leaders into A**holes (and what to do about it)

CEO Symbolic fallout, 2023 Edition

Taking it to the streets – Uber CEO finds out what it’s really like to be an Uber driver

Why uncertainty is your friend if you’re looking for big returns

March 2023-Round Up

Stop requiring innovation heroism!

Subscriptions: The Hotel California of Business Transactions

Episodic Innovation

Subscriptions: The Hotel California of Business Transactions

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Anxiety (But Were Afraid to Ask)

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February 2023-Round Up

There’s an app for that – teaching discovery driven planning in the entrepreneurship curriculum

Rewriting the employment contract, courtesy of COVID

Nasty choice architecture – the prevalence of dark patterns

January 2023-Round Up

A humorous take on a serious topic – American Indian history

The beginning of the end of school rankings as we’ve come to know them?

A heartwarming customer service story

2022 in the Rear-View Mirror!

Hollywood, Streaming and the Decline of the Hit Driven Business Model

If your organization operates as a multi-layer bureaucracy, it’s headed for extinction