Ayse Birsel interviews Rita McGrath, Professor, Columbia Business School, Bestselling Author and Thinkers50 #1 Achievement Award for Strategy.
Strategy
7 Ways Organizations Will Transform
Ever since humans moved from wandering tribes to towns and villages with governments thousands of years ago, we’ve been organizing our communities and businesses the same way – as hierarchies. But as the pace of change accelerates and the cost of...
Hamartia – How Good Leaders Face Their Tragic Flaw and Rebound After A Misstep
Continuing with our connection of modern management with ancient philosophical wisdom, I had the opportunity recently to see one of Aristotle’s principles on vivid display. The concept of Hamartia derives from the Greek concept of “to miss the...
Are Employees Assets or Liabilities?
Oscar Wilde is credited with the quote “The cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing”. And some say this is a reflection of the mental model of most financial executives. To be successful any company requires assets. These...
Me, myself, I
Among those most helpfully making sense of the practicalities of personal branding is Dorie Clark, an Adjunct Professor of Business Administration at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business. Clark is a former presidential campaign spokeswoman...
Thinkers50 Big Idea with Geoff Tuff and Steve Goldbach
Geoff Tuff and Steve Goldbach, authors of “Detonate”, discuss their Big Idea with Thinkers 50: instinct, and everything we’ve learned in our careers that made us successful, is causing us to focus on the wrong priorities to the...
