In a recent Harvard Business Review blog post Apple, Don’t Weaken the Garden Walls, Rita McGrath disagrees with the authors of a BusinessWeek article, Apple, With or Without Steve Jobs.
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3 Signs Your Business Model is on Fire
What are the ways you can recognize warnings in real-time that your business is under attack? Business consultant Rita McGrath offers three such signposts in the latest issue of Harvard Business Review. They are: 1…. Read more »
The paradox of stability admidst change
In a thought-provoking blog post, John Hagel observes that stability is not getting its fair share of press, as well all run around talking about how rapidly things are changing in the age of the… Read more »
Deflating Stress in The Workplace
HotelInteractive.com quotes Rita McGrath in an article about deflating stress: “There is a big body of research that shows stress is highly correlated with people feeling unable to control the variables that are relevant to… Read more »
Learning from Failure
A MBA Admissions site cites Rita McGrath: It’s tempting to gloss over all past mistakes or errors in judgment when you’re immersed in the MBA admissions process; after all, competition for a place in a… Read more »
Cloud Computing? Not So Fast—Unintended Consequences of Recent Disclosures
So the future was supposed to be upon us: a world in which, untethered by the need to be physically anywhere, we would all put our information in the cloud and access it by any… Read more »
Cloud Computing? Not So Fast—Unintended Consequences of Recent Disclosures
So the future was supposed to be upon us: a world in which, untethered by the need to be physically anywhere, we would all put our information in the cloud and access it by any… Read more »
Managing Failure
Blogging Innovation refers to Entrepreneurial Mindset in their blog entitled Managing Failure
When life hands you lemons…AOL Style
What can you say about a 25-year-old web portal that has lost its grip on the public imagination? I refer of course to AOL, which for many of us was our first introduction to the… Read more »
The corruption of Amazon’s Mechanical Turk
By now, most people are familiar with Amazon.com's Mechanical Turk business. Here's how it works: if you have a job that needs to be done that really requires a person to do it, you can post… Read more »
Ghost cities of China – some amazing pictures
Next to the Federal Reserve, China holds most of America's debt. A recent National Public Radio broadcast said that China was acting like "the big man on campus" (a more polite radio-friendly term than I… Read more »
WikiLeaks, the Cloud, and You!
I recently argued over at my Harvard Business Review blog that recent dramatic releases of information that was meant to be private (Karen Owens' revelations of intimate relationships and the ongoing WikiLeaks revelations) are likely… Read more »