CPA Success cited Rita McGrath's DigitalNow keynote:
Blaming others is easy when times are tough, isn't it?
It's the economy, or the fat cats on Wall Street, or those crooked politicians, or your cheapskate clients. Just about anybody but yourself, right?
Think again.
"Ninety percent of our barriers to growth are self-inflicted," Columbia Business School professor Rita McGrath told the crowd at the 2010 DigitalNow conference in Orlando. "The good news is, they can be self-removed."
One of the biggest problems, said McGrath, is our love affair with assumptions. We assume we know what our members, our clients, our employees want, but do we really?
Probably not.
Read the complete post here.
- Posted: Friday, April 30, 2010
Rita McGrath spoke about Growth in Uncertainty as a keynote speaker at the April 2010 DigitalNow Conference in Orlando, Florida. To watch her entire keynote, click here. The accompanying slide presentation is attached.
Dates: McGrathPresentationSlides.pdf
- Posted: Thursday, April 29, 2010
Tim Kastelle quoted Rita McGrath in his April 8 post: Experiments: Key to Innovation quoting from her Harvard Business post Are you Squandering your Intelligent Failures?.
She includes a list of conditions that can lead to what she's calling 'intelligent failures', the approach that she outlines is both good and practical.
- Posted: Wednesday, April 14, 2010
At Columbia Business School Public Offering Professor Rita McGrath says experimentation must be an integral part of a company's strategy in order to remain competitive in the future.
"The level of uncertainty and speed of change are touching sectors that used to be buffered from that," McGrath says. "When you don’t know what's going to happen, you don't have much choice except to experiment." To read the entire post, click here.
- Posted: Monday, April 12, 2010
Rita McGrath's Harvard Business Review post Are You Squandering your Intelligent Failures has been commented upon by Tim Kastelle and John Steen here.
- Posted: Monday, April 05, 2010
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