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4 | Tuesday | 1/2/24 | Promo for Friday Fireside Chat with Matt Abrahams 1/5/24 | Well, here's a great way to build some new, essential skills for 2024. Who doesn't want to rock their next informal meeting or be the one everyone remembers after some seemingly idle chit-chat? And who hasn't had the experience of flubbing an opportunity and wishing there was a chance for a do-over? My Friday Fireside Chat guest is communications expert Matt Abrahams, who is also a lecturer at Stanford and an award-winning podcast host. We'll be talking about his six steps to better spontaneous speaking and get into specific situations, such as making a pitch or giving feedback. Live online! | LI / TW / FB | https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ZPQlRoTZQmKiyjIRgP2BpQ | #thinkfastertalksmarter #podcasts #publicspeaking #FridayFiresideChat #seeingaroundcorners #spontaneousspeaking #pitching | Philip Zimbardo (https://www.linkedin.com/in/philzimbardo/); Katy Milkman, Joan Lunden, Jennifer Aaker, Naomi Bagdonas, Dan Lyons (https://www.linkedin.com/in/realdanlyons/), Jill Schlesinger (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jillonmoney/), Robert Sutton, David Eagleman, John Janick, Tony Fadell, Carmine Gallo (https://www.linkedin.com/in/carminegallo/), Julian Treasure (https://www.linkedin.com/in/juliantreasure/), ColumbiaExecutiveEducation Stanford | Do one next week as well | https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ritamcgrath_thinkfastertalksmarter-podcasts-publicspeaking-activity-7147935235916140544-bu2P?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
5 | Wednesday | 1/3/24 | Rita quoted in Peter Coy article in the New York Times | This is fun: I was featured as the quote of the day in this great NYT piece by Peter Coy! My belief is that "industry", as we traditionally think of it, is an artificial category, that can create dangerous blind spots. This article polls movie stars, college presidents, and farmers about their hopes for 2024, so certainly a cross-industry approach! | https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/27/opinion/matt-damon-fran-drescher-2024.html | #industry #seeingaroundcorners | Peter Coy ColumbiaExecEd NYT | https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ritamcgrath_opinion-matt-damon-fran-drescher-and-an-activity-7148333594606792705-iQO7?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
6 | Wednesday | 1/3/24 | Promo for WGBH show | This week, I'll be a guest on the WGBH show for "Under the Radar" with Callie Crossley alongside Philip Lempert, editor of Supermarket Guru. We're going to be talking about self-checkout, automated services in general, what they can be useful for and how many of the big promises for cost reduction and improved customer experiences have fallen flat. | https://www.wgbh.org/shows/under-the-radar | #automation #selfcheckout #services #customerservice | Supermarket Guru Callie Crosley WGBH ColumbiaExecEd | https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ritamcgrath_under-the-radar-activity-7148365822585958400-JD_e?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
7 | Wednesday | 1/3/24 | Promo for FFC with Matt Abrahams author of Think Faster, Talk Smarter | I'm already gearing up for my first Friday Fireside Chat of 2024! This week, I'll be talking to Matt Abrahams, Stanford lecturer and the award-winning host of the podcast Think Fast Talk Smart. He'll be walking us through his six step method for excelling at spontaneous converstation. | https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ZPQlRoTZQmKiyjIRgP2BpQ | #thinkfastertalksmarter #communications #rto #FridayFiresideChat #publicspeaking #podcasts #pitching | Matt Abrahams, Stanford University Graduate School of Business, Think Fast Talk Smart, Valize | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
8 | Thursday | 1/4/24 | Promo Matt Abrahams FFC | You haven't missed it! In my first Friday Fireside Chat of 2024, I'll be talking to award-winning podcast host and communications expert Matt Abrahams. He'll share time-tested techniques for rocking that unexpected conversation in which you have a great opportunity to make an impression. Much better than flubbing it and wishing you got the chance for a do-over. Happening tomorrow at 12:00 EST - you can still register. | https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ZPQlRoTZQmKiyjIRgP2BpQ | #thinkfastertalksmarter #communications #rto #FridayFiresideChat #publicspeaking #podcasts #pitching | Matt Abrahams, Stanford University Graduate School of Business, Think Fast Talk Smart, Valize | https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ritamcgrath_thinkfastertalksmarter-communications-rto-activity-7148738166085095424-FtQ1?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
9 | Thursday | 1/4/24 | WGBH - recording of TV show on self-checkout | This is when the show is taping - it looks from their web site as though it goes live on Sundays at 6pm Will this need copy? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
10 | Friday | 1/5/24 | Friday Fireside Chat - Matt Abrahams Author of Think Faster, Talk Smarter | Well, here's a great way to build some new, essential skills for 2024. Who doesn't want to rock their next informal meeting or be the one everyone remembers after some seemingly idle chit-chat? And who hasn't had the experience of flubbing an opportunity and wishing there was a chance for a do-over? My Friday Fireside Chat guest is communications expert Matt Abrahams, who is also a lecturer at Stanford and an award-winning podcast host. We'll be talking about his six steps to better spontaneous speaking and get into specific situations, such as making a pitch or giving feedback. Live online! | https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ZPQlRoTZQmKiyjIRgP2BpQ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
11 | Friday | 1/5/24 | Promo for FFC with Bob Sutton on "The Friction Project" happening January 19 | Stanford's Bob Sutton is one of the smartest people on the planet with respect to what goes on in organizations and why (hint - he's the guy that helps you deal with organizational A**holes). He has a brand new book coming out, "The Friction Project" with Huggy Rao on the subtle ways in which leaders can make the right things easier and the wrong things harder. Boy do we need those insights now! Join us January 19, 2024 at 11:00 EST. | https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_TNmRCl1dS9mR3wMfwdpp1g | #TheFrictionProject #leadership #newbooks #FridayFiresideChat #authors | Silicon Guild, Chris Yeh, Amy Edmondson, Adam Grant, Reid Hoffman, Tsedal Neely, Peter Sims, David Burkus, April Rinne, Morra Aarons-Mele, Zeynep Ton, Ed Catmull, Cass R. Sunstein, Herminia Ibarra, Santanu Narayan, Tim Harford, Huggy Rao | https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ritamcgrath_thefrictionproject-leadership-newbooks-activity-7149111196745433088-dagd?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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13 | Monday | 1/8/24 | WGBH Podcast "Under the Radar" | Over the weekend, WGBH dropped a podcast called "Under the Radar." I was a guest, as was Phil Lempert, founder and CEO of Supermarket Guru, a food and health news hub. We were dishing on the subject of self-checkouts in grocery stores. I learned something I didn't know - that some of the early efforts at self-checkouts were made to prevent supermarket workers from unionizing! Phil offered some amazing insights, including what we can expect when new bar code standards go into effect, and why a typical supermarket won't be able to use the technology that Amazon Go uses. I talked about user experience - it was a great conversation that sped by. Click on the link to listen to the recording. | https://www.wgbh.org/news/local/2024-01-05/why-some-grocery-stores-are-rejecting-self-checkout-and-replacing-them-with-humans | #podcast #selfcheckout #technology #grocerystores | Phil Lempert Callie Crossley Ashley Soebroto Jesse Steinmetz Columbia Executive Education | https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ritamcgrath_podcast-selfcheckout-technology-activity-7150168962134155264-3f3o?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
14 | Monday | 1/8/24 | Replay of Thinkers50 panel recording | Missed being in London for the Thinkers50 program and gala? You can watch a recording of our final wrap up panel with myself and futurist Amy Webb in a session called "Eyes Wide Open" about preparing for the future. We talk about what a strategic inflection point is, and how you can spot the weak signals that suggest one is on the way, why as a leader your job is to reduce anxiety by sort of slowing time down, why we need to stop relying on lagging indicators and a bit about the state of strategy today. Drop in on the conversation! | https://vimeo.com/898169332/719d75b4db?share=copy | #weaksignals #futurist #thefuture #seeingaroundcorners #thesignalsaretalking #strategy #innovation #thinkers50 | Amy Webb Stuart Crainer Des Dearlove thinkers50 ColumbiaExecEd Lance Landfield | https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ritamcgrath_eyes-wide-open-activity-7150205202489380865-HI-7?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
15 | Tuesday | 1/9/24 | Indian News Article | Take a look at this interesting thought piece written by myself and M Muneer for the Khaleej Times as we discuss startups, their business, models ,and the questions these CEOs should be asking. | https://www.khaleejtimes.com/opinion/startups-must-take-a-closer-look-at-their-business-models | #startups #CEOS #business #thoughtleadership #article #businessmodels | Khaheel Times M Muneer Valize | https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ritamcgrath_startups-ceos-business-activity-7150543162518761472-vIWQ?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
16 | Wednesday | 1/10/24 | Yearend wrapup newsletter | The new year is often a time for reflection and thinking about what happens next. With that in mind, we put together a wrapup of some highlights from 2023, a few press mentions worth knowing about and some glimpses of what lies ahead for 2024. | #newsletters #wrapup #2023 #Happynewyear | https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ritamcgrath_thoughtsparks-innovation-lululemon-activity-7150896083827650562-jDSW?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
17 | Wednesday | 1/10/24 | Development Bank of Japan | Columbia Executive Education's customer program partnerships with companies are a great way to build internal networks and capability. Today, I'm teaching in such a program for the Development Bank of Japan in our beautiful new buildings in Manhattan. They came to us to help get beyond their current frames of reference and to hear from some of our expert professors on how they can make critical decisions for an institution that is vitally important to Japan. I'm presenting on strategy and building an early warning system to spot and plan for strategic inflection points. If you think your organization could benefit from powerful programs like this, be in touch! | https://www.dbj.jp/en/ | #executiveeducation #learning #seeingaroundcorners #strategy #innovation | ColumbiaExecutiveEducation Mark Roberts | https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ritamcgrath_development-bank-of-japan-inc-activity-7150876312524517376-zjQv?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
18 | Wednesday | 1/10/24 | Promo for Chip Conley's new book | Chip Conley, a truly Modern Elder, is leading the charge to redefine how we think about the second half of our lives. In his wonderful new book, which releases next week, he likens this period to a chrysalis - a time when the accumulated lessons of our lives can lead us to reinvent ourselves and live fully up to our potential. Chip's warm optimism is particularly poignant because he is battling stage 3 cancer and has been coping with the struggles of ill-health even as the joyous occasion of his book launch is taking place. You still have time to pre-order the book (which publishes on the 16th) and do pop in to Chip's appearances on the Today Show and Good Morning America next Monday. | https://chipconley.com/learning-to-love-midlife/ | #lovingmidlife #midlifechrysalis | Esther Perel Arthur C. Brooks Richard Rohr Daniel Pink Gretchen Rubin Bob Sutton Peter Sims Chris Yeh Amy Edmondson April Rinne Silicon Guild Jennifer Aaker David Aaker | https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ritamcgrath_lovingmidlife-midlifechrysalis-activity-7150940789982859264-9yJz?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
19 | Thursday | 1/11/24 | Reposting Visual Summary of Curious Advantage Podcast | I love this graphic explaining my recent conversation with the team over on The Curious Advantage Podcast! To hear the rest of the story, check out the podcast here! https://audioboom.com/posts/8415253-seeing-around-corners-and-the-10x-shift-with-rita-mcgrath-professor-columbia-business-school | LI / TW / FB | https://www.linkedin.com/posts/the-curious-advantage_we-are-proud-to-show-our-visual-summary-of-activity-7142492862243352576-B-yl?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop | #curiousadvantagepodcast #inflectionpoints #seeingaroundcorners #7Csofcuriosity | Paul Ashcroft Simon Brown Garrick Jones | https://www.linkedin.com/posts/the-curious-advantage_we-are-proud-to-show-our-visual-summary-of-activity-7142492862243352576-B-yl?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
20 | Thursday | 1/11/24 | Promo for May Busch's Career Mastery Challenge 2024 | Here's a potentially useful way to accelerate your career amidst the January doldrums. May Busch is offering her free five day career mastery challenge, designed to help you chart a path and prioritize your activities for 2024 in 30 minutes a day or less. The event takes place virtually from January 22-26. See the link for more information. | https://maybusch.samcart.com/referral/trbLmvEi/XMwO3UrBlDkQSMGw | #CMC2024 #careermasterychallenge #careermastery #careers #employment #planning | May Busch | https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ritamcgrath_free-5-day-career-mastery-challenge-activity-7151292710119772160-EnFB?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
21 | Friday | 1/12/24 | Flipbook: On the agenda for 2024 – a better way to keep track of your innovation portfolio | So what happened with innovation in 2023 (my perspective: practically nothing!) and what can we expect for 2024? That was the subject of two virtual panels sponsored by Innov8rs on December 5, announcing the release of their indispensable annual handbook for corporate innovators everywhere. In my session, I focused on the enduring lack of alignment that many organizations face between their systems for launching strategies, allocating budgets, managing portfolios and rewarding people and suggest some ways we might be able to do a better job. Hint: Maybe it isn't culture, mindset or commitment - maybe it's that the tools we have aren't fit for purpose! Have a look and see what you think. | https://issuu.com/ritamcgrath/docs/on_the_agenda_for_2024_a_better_way_to_keep_trac | #innovation hashtag#portfoliomanagement hashtag#discoverydrivengrowth hashtag#DDP hashtag#planning hashtag#budgets hashtag#opportunities hashtag#strategy hashtag#seeingaroundcorners hashtag#software hashtag#sparcHub | Alexander Osterwalder Tyler Anderson Frank Mattes Alf Rehn Steve Blank Jennifer Riel IDEO Columbia Business School Executive Education Gina O'Connor Andrew Binns Dan Toma Elvin Turner Hans Balmaekers Ron Boire Lisa Bodell Valize | https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ritamcgrath_on-the-agenda-for-2024-activity-7151589874620329985-LvUU?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
22 | Friday | 1/12/24 | Quote | Overheard at Thinkers50: "People won't care what you know until they know that you care." | #quotes #wisdom | Des Dearlove Stuart Crainer thinkers50 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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25 | Tuesday | 1/16/24 | Promo for Fireside with Paul LeBlanc | Paul J. LeBlanc is one of my personal heroes. As President of Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU) he did what many said was impossible - he took back on-line education from predatory for-profit schools and made it possible for tens of thousands of students to graduate and seize opportunities. He's also the author of a wonderful, hopeful and human new book "Broken: How Our Social Systems are Failing Us and How We can Fix Them." It's a very human read, infused with the wisdom of Paul's many years of experience and with his humility as a leader. He shows us that we needn't despair of our messed up social systems but rather can each participate in making them better. He's joining me on February 16 at 2pm Eastern to chat about the book, his next chapter, and, well, whatever else he'd like to share with us! | https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_gq9Y83GoQ4mkDx5nQTyz1w | #brokenthebook #broken #SNHU #SocialChange #Systems #seeingaroundcorners #systemsthinking | Jacqueline Novogratz Thasunda Brown Duckett (CEO TIAA) Johnny Taylor (CEO SHRM) Paul LeBlanc Whitney Johnson | https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ritamcgrath_welcome-you-are-invited-to-join-a-webinar-activity-7153073092968292352-qNdt?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
26 | Tuesday | 1/16/24 | Fireside sizzle reel with Matt Abrahams | My Friday Fireside Chat with Matt Abrahams was a hoot! He's a communications expert at Stanford and has a great new book out called "Think Faster, Talk Smarter." Our chat was pretty unconventional, covering a range that included me receiving a virtual gift from Matt, and he delivering a pretty flawless sales pitch for a robotic dog-walking invention. Here's a short clip from the full recording. In this, we talk about how big things can happen during small talk, how to be interested, not try to be interesting, and how to get out of a small talk situation gracefully. Totally worth a watch. | LI / TW / FB | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jg_IcQgwvg | https://vimeo.com/901180382 | #thinkfastertalksmarter #podcasts #publicspeaking #FridayFiresideChat #seeingaroundcorners #spontaneousspeaking #pitching | Philip Zimbardo (https://www.linkedin.com/in/philzimbardo/); Katy Milkman, Joan Lunden, Jennifer Aaker, Naomi Bagdonas, Dan Lyons (https://www.linkedin.com/in/realdanlyons/), Jill Schlesinger (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jillonmoney/), Robert Sutton, David Eagleman, John Janick, Tony Fadell, Carmine Gallo (https://www.linkedin.com/in/carminegallo/), Julian Treasure (https://www.linkedin.com/in/juliantreasure/), ColumbiaExecutiveEducation Stanford | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
27 | Tuesday | 1/16/24 | Thought Spark: Inflation Reduction Act and Pharma companies | Even in a polarized America, people are in agreement that in many cases prescription drug prices are so high that they are problematic, costing companies and health systems vast amounts of resources while not making Americans particularly healthier. The Inflation Reduction Act, passed last year got a lot of attention for giving the Secretary of Health and Human services to negotiate with drugmakers on behalf of Medicare and Medicaid. But a little discussed provision of the act could have an even bigger impact on which therapies drugmakers put resources into investigating. | #seeingaroundcorners #strategy #innovation #inflectionpoint #IRA #drugprices #pharmaceuticals #coopetition | Len Rosenberg https://www.linkedin.com/in/len-rosenberg-2695922/ Geoff Colvin Adam Brandenberger Barry Nalebuff Luke Greenwalt https://www.linkedin.com/in/luke-greenwalt-a59a1310/ Todd Bisping | https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ritamcgrath_seeingaroundcorners-strategy-innovation-activity-7153079354921558017-Sr95?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
28 | Wednesday | 1/17/24 | Promo for Bob Sutton's Friday Fireside chat | You still have time to register for my #FridayFiresideChat with Stanford's own Robert Sutton, during which we'll talk about his new co-authored book with Huggy Rao, "The Friction Project." It's about how smart managers can increase the ease of making good things happen, and the opposite with bad things. It's a tour de force and I'm looking forward to the conversation. | LI / TW / FB | https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_TNmRCl1dS9mR3wMfwdpp1g | https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ritamcgrath_welcome-you-are-invited-to-join-a-webinar-activity-7153426299082973184-KWiF?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
29 | Wednesday | 1/17/24 | SparcHub System Live Demo - PROMO | SparcHub is a software app designed to make it easy to implement the discovery driven growth method. It allows you to track ideas and opportunities, estimate how much uncertainty you have across your portfolio, keep track of what teams are learning and find out quickly if projects are developing issues. It's easy to use and very customizable. In this live virtual webinar, Rita will demonstrate the system, answer questions and show you how you can put it to work in your own organization. | LI / TW / FB | https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_GOJESJ1wQPe15xmYt-EJ2A https://www.valize.com/sparchub | #software #SparcHub | Valize Ron Boire Noel Sobelman Todd Dunn | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
30 | Thursday | 1/18/24 | Promo for Chip Conley's appearances on Good Morning America and the Today Show | If you're near a television this morning/afternoon try to check out Chip Conley's segments in which he'll be talking about his new book, "Learning to Love Midlife." The book shows us how to use the wisdom accumulated over decades can be leveraged and put to use for a truly satisfying post mid life period of learning and re-generation. Totally worth a watch. | LI / TW / FB | https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ritamcgrath_learning-to-love-midlife-12-reasons-why-activity-7153756147869454336-EacX?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
31 | Thursday | 1/18/24 | Rita speaking at Princeton Chapter of Startup Dive | For many years, I've been collecting case studies of corporate flops - I keep them in my "flops file." You have to lose your parent company at least $50 million to join in. They range from everything including Disney's nearly disastrous entry into Europe to more recent failures like Keurig-Anheuser Busch's Drinkworks. I'll be chatting to the Princeton Chapter of Startup Dive, a community for entrepreneurs about the common patterns and how you can avoid joining this club! | LI / TW / FB | https://www.startupgrind.com/events/details/startup-grind-princeton-presents-the-flop-folder-how-to-lose-your-investors-50m/cohost-princeton | David Stengle | https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ritamcgrath_the-flop-folder-how-to-lose-your-investors-activity-7153811243332521985-azcj?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
32 | Friday | 1/19/24 | Quote: | Many a tragic business has launched on the assumption that "we only need 2% of a fast-growing market" | LI / TW / FB | https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ritamcgrath_quote-business-market-activity-7154134584668876800-reps?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
33 | Friday | 1/19/24 | Friday Fireside Chat - Bob Sutton and his new book on Friction | Stanford's Bob Sutton is one of the smartest people on the planet with respect to what goes on in organizations and why (hint - he's the guy that helps you deal with organizational A**holes). He has a brand new book coming out, "The Friction Project" with Huggy Rao on the subtle ways in which leaders can make the right things easier and the wrong things harder. Boy do we need those insights now! Join us January 19, 2024 at 12:00 EST. | LI / TW / FB | https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_TNmRCl1dS9mR3wMfwdpp1g | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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35 | Monday | 1/22/24 | Rita Mentioned on Marketplace | 10% off! 20% off! No, make that 30%! Does it seem as though everything is on sale, all the time? I explore this issue with Marketplace's Kristin Schwab. The reality is that many goods and services offered "on sale" were never sold at the presumed list price, ever. There have been lawsuits about this but at the end of the day, the consumer is often left to their own devices to figure out whether a given purchase is a bargain or not. We also revisit one of the historical attempts to do away with the sales & promotion gambits by looking back at Ron Johnson's disastrous attempt to remake J. C. Penney's approach to sales by eliminating promotions and replacing them with "fair and square" pricing. Will this continue? I expect consumers are eventually going to tire of it and retailers will have to figure something else out. | LI / TW / FB | https://www.marketplace.org/2024/01/17/retailers-are-stuck-in-a-cycle-of-constant-sales/ | #shopping #sales #retail #seeingaroundcorners #trends | Marketplace ColumbiaExecED Valize Ron Boire Kai Ryssdal Kristin Schwab | https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ritamcgrath_why-are-there-so-many-sales-marketplace-activity-7155268234223513600-U_yk?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
36 | Wednesday | 1/24/24 | Promo for Bob Sutton's Book using a clip from our fireside | Bob Sutton and Huggy Rao's new book "The Friction Project" is only coming out on January 30. But you, dear listeners and readers, can pop into a sneak peek of many of its key ideas by checking out the recording of our Friday Fireside Chat. Learn why it's almost never a good idea to move fast when you are in a state of confusion, why great "friction fixers" make the lives of others easier and how, as a leader, to avoid the temptation to jump into a situation before you've sussed out the true nature of what you are up against. It's the culmination of a 7-year project and well worth the read! Hint: pre-order it now and it will magically appear! Until that moment, enjoy the conversation. | LI / TW / FB | Got time? Here's a link to the full session https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1am9UmBhyw Pressed for time? Here's a five-minute clip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrrqsB4HbaA | #FrictionProject #leadership #seeingaroundcorners #organizations | Silicon Guild Bob Sutton Huggy Rao Standford | https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ritamcgrath_friday-fireside-chat-rita-mcgrath-bob-activity-7155978596598075392-pI8s?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
37 | Wednesday | 1/24/24 | Publication of interview with Rita in Think : Act | The current edition of Roland Berger's Think : Act Magazine is about the Circus of Transformation and it's a stunningly beautiful production. There's a lot to enjoy, including stories featuring guests I've had by the Fireside, and an interview with me about critical pandemic lessons and the importance of taking a step back from crisis to slow down your thinking. Have a look! | LI / TW / FB | https://www.rolandberger.com/en/Insights/Publications/The-circus-of-transformation.html | #transformation #change #circus #magazines #decisionmaking #seeingaroundcorners | Atif Rafiq Neelima Mahadjan Nick Wallenda Bennett Voyles Mark Pilkington Ron Boire | https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ritamcgrath_the-circus-of-transformation-activity-7156034698941534208-7gI2?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
38 | Wednesday | 1/24/24 | Thought Spark: Gig workers can fight back | Frederick Winslow Taylor was the first - and arguably most successful - management consultant. His concept of scientific management applied to factory work both yielded unimaginable improvements in productivity and unimaginable tensions between workers and their managers. What's been misunderstood is that the tension he faced in his own career - workers sabotaging their equipment to keep productivity levels down, for instance - was never his intention. His goal was to create cooperative arrangements in which workers would do their best and managers would share the resulting benefits with them in the form of higher pay. We tend to remember the dark side of Taylorism - the kind mocked by Charlie Chaplin in his 1936 film "Modern Times." Well, it's back in the form of algorithms that control every aspect of some worker's lives. But an interesting social experiment in Indonesia may illustrate a way in which Taylor's original vision might become reality. | LI / TW / FB | #worklife #algorithms #WFH #Taylorism #wages #piecework #technology #strategy #scientificmanagement #managementconsultants #productivity | Bob Hart https://www.linkedin.com/in/bob-hart-059551116/?originalSubdomain=uk Tim Harford Christopher Mims WSJ NYT MIT Technology Review Columbia Executive Education Bob Sutton Jeffrey Pfeffer Zeynep Ton Karen Hao Nadine Freischlad Jason Jackson Rida Quadri Bill Lazonick | https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ritamcgrath_worklife-algorithms-wfh-activity-7156050997142781952-RBEs?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
39 | Thursday | 1/25/24 | Sizzle Reel | In the first Friday Fireside Chat of 2024, I chatted with award-winning podcast host and communications expert Matt Abrahams. He shared time-tested techniques for rocking that unexpected conversation in which you have a great opportunity to make an impression. Much better than flubbing it and wishing you got the chance for a do-over. | LI / TW / FB | https://vimeo.com/901180382?share=copy | https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ritamcgrath_firesidechat-podcast-impressions-activity-7156360428925702144-Q8S-?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
40 | Thursday | 1/25/24 | Flipbook: | After a 2023 that I can only describe as a year of “wait and see,” I think 2024 is going to be full of momentum. I’m looking forward to learning, sharing ideas and having you join us. There’s a new book in the works, ongoing Thought Sparks, lots of inspiring Fireside Chats and so much more. Have a lovely holiday break, however you spend it, and I’m looking forward to working with you next year. | LI / TW / FB | https://issuu.com/ritamcgrath/docs/december_2023-round_up | #HappyNewYear hashtag#December hashtag#wrapup #2023 hashtag#NewYear hashtag#Reflectons hashtag#thoughtsparks hashtag#thoughtleadership | Valize Samsung Electronics Ron Boire Geoffrey Moore Kelly Richmond Pope, CPA Global Peter Drucker Forum Zeynep Ton Thinkers50 | https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ritamcgrath_2023-round-up-activity-7156388996544126976-PuIt?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
41 | Friday | 1/26/24 | Quote | Technology moves at the speed of light, but regulations move at the speed of bureaucracy. | LI / TW / FB | #quote #techonology #regulations #bureaucracy | https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ritamcgrath_quote-technology-regulations-activity-7156692296141258752-LBeW?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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44 | Monday | 1/29/24 | Fireside Chat Recall: Rick Goings | "Create an operating environment where people can become the best versions of themselves." Here's a note that legendary CEO Rick Goings used to inspire his leadership for creating astonishing organizations. Rick was a #FridayFiresideChat guest and you can revisit our fascinating conversation. | LI / TW / FB | Have time for the whole conversation? click here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agfzJWspgJs&pp=ygUYcmljayBnb2luZ3Mgcml0YSBtY2dyYXRo Have just a couple of minutes for the highlights? click here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZ4unLuzJb8&list=PLO4zCq_U9xiV6vIXJUhEFQympLid0Fkuv&index=39 | #CEO #leadership #seeingaroundcorners #FridayFiresideChat #wisdom #strategy | Rick Goings Ron Boire Valize Richard Straub Ilse Straub Drucker Forum Columbia Executive Education | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
45 | Tuesday | 1/30/24 | Thought Sparks: Imagining the modern smartphone - 23 years ago! | It was the 1990's. My co-author and I were just beginning to marvel at how often otherwise well managed companies got themselves into big trouble when they tried to explore new areas of opportunity. Perhaps, we thought, they could learn from the lessons of habitual entrepreneurs - people who had successfully launched multiple businesses. The resulting book was called "The Entrepreneurial Mindset." It got two things exactly wrong: publishing just as the dot com era imploded, wrecking the public perception of entreprenuership. It also landed in the wrong part of the bookstore for our target market - practicing executives - to find it. I recently had the encouragement to go back and much to my surprise found a pretty accurate description of a modern smartphone as a potentially game-changing product - long before such a thing existed in real life. This week's Spark describes it. | LI / TW / FB | #entrepreneurialmindset #seeingaroundcorners #discoverydriven growth #opportunities #innovation #strategy | The Wharton School Columbia Executive Education Aiden McCullen HBR Kaj-Erik Relander Ron Boire Valize | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
46 | Wednesday | 1/31/24 | SparcHub System Live Demo | What if you could offer your clients a seamless way to use quality planning tools that also accelerate their learning? Meet the SparcHub Sage platform from Valize. Keep track of ideas, manage your opportunity portfolio, and capture what your team is learning. Does this sound interesting to you? Join our upcoming demo January 31st and see for yourself! | LI / TW / FB | https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_GH3WHe9UQ0SbhAc9-_5oMw https://www.valize.com/sparchub | #planningtools #sparchub #innovation #management #demo #liveevent | Valize Ron Boire | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
47 | 1/31/24 | Ivy Interview | I dont know when this will ultimately be released | LI / TW / FB | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
48 | Thursday | 2/1/24 | Flipbook: 2023: The Year of Living Cautiously | The new year is often a time for reflection and thinking about what happens next. With that in mind, we put together a wrapup of some highlights from 2023, a few press mentions worth knowing about, and some glimpses of what lies ahead for 2024. | LI / TW / FB | https://issuu.com/ritamcgrath | N/A | #thoughtsparks #innovation #lululemon #competitiveadvantage #discoverydrivenplanning #Uber #transientadvantage #regulations #IdeaHub #leadership #stress #executiveeducation #womeninleadership #hbr #newsletters #wrapup | lululemon Matt Abrahams Bob Sutton Columbia University Valize Forbes Morra Aarons-Mele Dara Khosrowshahi WeWork | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
49 | Friday | 2/2/24 | Groundhog day - we should do something fun around that | It’s groundhog day! Similar to Punxsutawney Phil predicting 6 more weeks of winter, our team at Valize is predicting 6 new learning guides centered around Discovery Driven Planning. Stay tuned! In the meantime, take a look at our Customer Insight Tools collection. | LI / TW / FB | https://www.valize.com/ImpactGuides | #groundhogday #learningguides #strategy #discoverydrivenplanning #customerinsight #learning | Valize | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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52 | Tuesday | 2/6/24 | Commentary on Taylor Swift kiss | Well, just in time for the runup to both the Super Bowl and Valentine's day, we have a feel good story about Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift celebrating the Kansas City Chief's win which will put them in the Big Game. | https://people.com/travis-kelce-kisses-taylor-swift-on-field-after-2024-super-bowl-clinch-8551116 | #football #superbowl #romance #valentinesday | Ron Boire | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
53 | Tuesday | 2/6/24 | Thought Spark: Linear vs. incremental change | You're not imagining things - change in technologies and systems really is speeding up! One big reason is that we are now experiencing accelerated learning curves, meaning that learning functions are getting faster. In linear systems, the ones our brains were designed for, change is additive. One plus one equals two. A journey that is to take a hundred days is 1/3 complete by day 33. In systems with an exponential function, in contrast, change happens cumulatively, which famed theorist Ray Kurzweil explans is a property that any system learning through trial and error will exhibit. It's hard to anticipate the behavior of an exponential system with a linear lens. | #exponentialorganizations #change #acceleratinglearning #learning #cumulativelearning #seeingaroundcorners | Christopher Mims Mark Bonchek Ray Kurzweil Salim Ismael Peter Diamamandis Chris Yeh Valize Ron Boire Megan McArdle Washington Post Columbia Exec Ed | https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ritamcgrath_exponentialorganizations-change-acceleratinglearning-activity-7160713035060297728-qeeD?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
54 | Wednesday | 2/7/24 | Interview with Dan Anstandig of Futuri | If there is anything we know about the world of traditional media is that it is likely to change. In this conversation with Futuri's Dan Anstandig, we chat about the need to continuosly change, why AI is likely to be, as Steve Jobs once famously said, "like a bicycle for your brain," and how leaders need to embrace change or risk being left behind. The news, entertainment and media businesses have been upended by digital technologies and that isn't going away any time soon! | https://www.insideradio.com/free/the-innovation-arms-race-visionary-insights-from-rita-mcgrath/article_2b0df0a8-c401-11ee-becf-4b801e8597ae.html?utm_source=Inside+Radio&utm_medium=social+media&utm_campaign=Inside+Radio+February | #radio #media #seeingaroundcorners #strategy #innovation #disruption | Dan Anstandig Valize Ron Boire Marketplace Todd Dunn | https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ritamcgrath_the-innovation-arms-race-visionary-insights-activity-7161036178761113600-kQFc?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
55 | Wednesday | 2/7/24 | Repost Outthinker thought leader advisory board | What strategic issues should strategy leaders focus on in 2024? I was featured in this roundup of 6 key issues, from my friends at @Outthinker Networks. In it, I talk about how "permissionless" organizations – where employees aren't caught in a web of unintegrated systems, generating frustration for all – should be on every strategy leader's radar for 2024. | https://www.linkedin.com/posts/kaihankrippendorff_strategy-2024trends-activity-7160991846775595009-CvP-?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop | #strategy #permissionlessorganization | Kaihan Krippendorf Tiffani Bova | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
56 | Thursday | 2/8/24 | Throwback Thursday: The Speeding up of just about everything | It may feel as though the speeding up of everything has just happened recently, but it was already well underway a good ten years ago! This quick read from December of 2013 shows adoption curves for all kinds of new technologies - and with exponential technologies, things are not slowing down any time soon. | https://www.ritamcgrath.com/sparks/2013/11/on-the-speeding-up-of-just-about-everything/ | #seeingaroundcorners #theendofcompetitive advantage | HBR Columbia Exec Ed | https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ritamcgrath_on-the-speeding-up-of-just-about-everything-activity-7161393699849920514-PV43?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
57 | Thursday | 2/8/24 | Repost of Outthinker Networks Thought Leader Article | With everything coming at strategists, now that Q1 is well underway, how are we to set priorities and differentiate the signal from the noise. Drop in on our conversation at the Outthinker Network to find out what our group things are the six things that should make your list for 2024. | https://outthinkernetwork.com/six-strategy-priorities-for-2024-according-to-experts/ | #strategy #seeingaroundcorners #outthinker #priorities #planning | Rob Wolcott https://www.linkedin.com/in/robert-c-wolcott-4a624a/ Tony O' Driscoll https://www.linkedin.com/in/tony-o-driscoll-5bb46b5/ Renee Dye https://www.linkedin.com/in/renee-dye-8a3310a/ Felix Oberholzer-Gee https://www.linkedin.com/in/felix-oberholzer-gee/ | https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ritamcgrath_six-strategy-priorities-for-2024-according-activity-7161738961000845314-h7Is?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
58 | Friday | 2/9/24 | Potential TV appearance in California | This will be recorded and replayed later I don't know timing as yet | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
59 | Friday | 2/9/24 | Quote: | Hard facts are a lagging indicator - by the time you are facing a fact, it's very hard to change |  | #quote #change #thoughtleadership | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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62 | Tuesday | 2/13/24 | Thought Sparks: Why is nobody talking about the massive wealth transfer to women? | According to McKinsey research, by 2030 vast amounts of wealth will be in the hands of women. In looking into this, I was astonished to learn just how recent American women's ability to access and control their own financial resources has been. Moreover, how entire institutions have grown up basically ignoring women. And women themselves have often not been proactive about educating themselves about their finances, almost as though they didn't belong in those fields. That's all about to change and probably more quickly than many of our institutions are prepared for. | #finance #womeninvestors #money #savings #investment #inflection points #seeingaroundcorners #wealthtransfer | Tori Dunlap Sallie Krawcheck McKinsey Dina Bakst Carol Gilligan Caroline Criado Perez Sally Helgesen Avivah Wittenberg-Cox | https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ritamcgrath_finance-womeninvestors-money-activity-7163235049763508224-MgVy?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
63 | Tuesday | 2/13/24 | Think/Act Promo | There is nothing particularly mysterious about observing the trends, picking up patterns and considering how they will affect the trajectory of an organization. Good leaders know that they have to take the time to do this, but all too often the future is an afterthought. I recently spoke with #ThinkActMagazine about this and other issues that should be top of mind for CEOs in uncertain times. You can read the interview at this link. | https://www.rolandberger.com/en/Insights/Publications/How-to-see-what-s-around-the-corner.html |  | #management #strategy #seeingaroundcorners | Roland Berger ColumbiaExecEd | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
64 | Wednesday | 2/14/24 | Promo for Friday Fireside Chat with Paul LeBlanc | You haven't missed this Friday's Fireside Chat with Paul J. LeBlanc. He's one of my personal heroes. As President of Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU) he did what many said was impossible - he took back on-line education from predatory for-profit schools and made it possible for tens of thousands of students to graduate and seize opportunities. He's also the author of a wonderful, hopeful and human new book "Broken: How Our Social Systems are Failing Us and How We can Fix Them." It's a very human read, infused with the wisdom of Paul's many years of experience and with his humility as a leader. He shows us that we needn't despair of our messed up social systems but rather can each participate in making them better. | https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_gq9Y83GoQ4mkDx5nQTyz1w https://www.valize.com/sparchub | #brokenthebook #broken #SNHU #SocialChange #Systems #seeingaroundcorners #systemsthinking | Jacqueline Novogratz Thasunda Brown Duckett (CEO TIAA) Johnny Taylor (CEO SHRM) Paul LeBlanc Whitney Johnson | https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ritamcgrath_brokenthebook-broken-snhu-activity-7163570864192487424-hyPP?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
65 | Wednesday | 2/14/24 | Valentine's day - plug for Peter Sims' new book | Happy Valentine's Day! I'm going to be spending it winging my way back to the East Coast after a few days in California at a conference called PowerShift. It's the brainchild of Peter Eagle Sims, author of the soon-to-be-released book "Black Sheep: The Quest to be Human in an Inhuman Time." More on the content of the conference probably in next week's Thought Sparks, but for now, the book is available for pre-order and is well worth a read. It's personal, doesn't pull a lot of punches and even names names! More importantly, it's meant to get us all thinking of our collective commitment to one another and how what Hitendra Wadwha calls our "love energy" can help us find solutions to seemingly intractable human problems. How is that for a nice Valentine's day thought? | https://www.amazon.com/Black-Sheep-Peter-Sims/dp/1939714257 | #powershift #conferences #BLKSHP #capitalism #love #connections #humanity #littlebets | Peter Sims Ed Catmull Astro Teller Silicon Guild Chris Yeh Patty McCord Lisa Kay Solomon Stanford Jeremy Utley Hitendra Wadhwa Bill George Aloe Blacc | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
66 | Thursday | 2/15/24 | Quote | For executives focused on the core business, innovation is light amusement at best, a dangerous threat at worst |  | https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ritamcgrath_quote-innovation-business-activity-7163961724910448641--snX?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
67 | Friday | 2/16/24 | Promotion of Chip Conley Fireside Chat | Today's Friday Fireside Chat is with SNHU President Paul LeBlanc - hopefully you had a chance to join in. It's not too late to put a calendar hold on my upcoming chat with Modern Elder Chip Conley - on a mission to make mid-life a welcome destination for a life's journey. | https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_66GQdtouRaGKV4cTD5qghA |  | #lovingmidlife #midlifechrysalis | Esther Perel Arthur C. Brooks Richard Rohr Daniel Pink Gretchen Rubin Bob Sutton Peter Sims Chris Yeh Amy Edmondson April Rinne Silicon Guild Jennifer Aaker David Aaker | https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ritamcgrath_lovingmidlife-midlifechrysalis-firesidechat-activity-7164284992821379079-4x1t?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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69 | Monday | 2/19/24 | Thinkers50 afterparty replay video | Who can you look to for inspiring ideas to take your business forward? The people gathered at the Thinkers50 event in London in November of 2023 would be a great place to start. I've been noticing that as the group of thinkers recognized has become more diverse, younger and more global, that it has also become more cooperative and complementary. If there are ideas that can change the world for the better, my guess is many will be present here. | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZeWAq65Bn8 | #thinkers50 #seeingaroundcorners #strategy #innovation #awards | Scott Anthony Des Dearlove Stuart Crainer Thinkers50 Sheena Iyengar Amy Edmondson Michael Bungay Stanier Amy Webb Silicon Guild Julie Carrier | https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ritamcgrath_thinkers50-2023-awards-gala-aftermovie-activity-7165421866378063872-epdS?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
70 | Tuesday | 2/20/24 | Thought Sparks: Could you benefit from a peer to peer group? | It used to be that company leaders thought their in-house training programs were their secret sauce. They created common culture. They built internal networks. They helped younger leaders to become ready for successively more challenging roles. Ah, those were the days. When fabled General Electric made the decision to sell off its legendary Crotonville training center, we knew that era was over. Today, leaders are increasingly responsible for their own development. They are also being asked to take bigger and bigger career jumps as hierarchies flatten and middle management roles get trimmed. The result? A whole generation of leaders who feel unready for the massive challenges their organizations face. Not with respect to the technical skills - in many ways, we have a more tech-savvy and smart set of young leaders than ever. It's the soft stuff - how do I have tough conversations? How do I get the difficult feedback I know I need to grow? How do I deal with power and politics when scarce resources are leading people to feel insecure and defensive? How do I make sense of the context when uncertainty seems unlimited? One thought we're having at Valize is that peer-to-peer learning might be part of the solution, both for leaders and for their organizations. This week's Thought Sparks is an exploration. | #executiveeducation #learning #leadership #seeingaroundcorners #development #management #growth #peertopeer #YPO | Ron Boire Valize Sid Apaya Mark Leung Peter Cappelli Wharton Russell Reynolds Deloitte Bill George Peter Sims | https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ritamcgrath_executiveeducation-learning-leadership-activity-7165771167994245122-v2ld?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
71 | Tuesday | 2/20/24 | KRON-4 Interview | What fun to chat to "Live in the Bay" host Olivia Horton about what "Seeing Around Corners" means to people in their daily lives. We covered why inflection points matter, how to anticipate them and what to do once you see one looming. And her shoes are just awesome! | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6ICueCMEOw | #seeingaroundcorners #inflectionpoints #liveinthebay #TVinterviews | Olivia Horton Columbia Exec Ed Valize | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
72 | Tuesday | 2/20/24 | Friday Fireside Chat with Chip Conley Promo | Chip Conley is on a mission to make mid-life a welcome and joyous part of life's journey! His new book "Learning to Love Mid-Life" is an invitation to explore the wisdom that comes with experience, to let go of baggage that doesn't serve you well and to transform toward a fulfilling future. He'll be joining me by the fireside on February 23 at noon EST to talk about lessons he's learned about making the most of this part of your life. | https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_66GQdtouRaGKV4cTD5qghA | #lovingmidlife #midlifechrysalis | Esther Perel Arthur C. Brooks Richard Rohr Daniel Pink Gretchen Rubin Bob Sutton Peter Sims Chris Yeh Amy Edmondson April Rinne Silicon Guild Jennifer Aaker David Aaker | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
73 | Wednesday | 2/21/24 | SparcHub System Live Demo | What if you could offer your clients a seamless way to use quality planning tools that also accelerate their learning? Meet the SparcHub Sage platform from Valize. Keep track of ideas, manage your opportunity portfolio, and capture what your team is learning. Does this sound interesting to you? Join our upcoming demo today and see for yourself! | https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ay1rQ3NdSoqetOU-Zx9Jcw https://www.valize.com/sparchub | #planningtools #sparchub #innovation #management #demo #liveevent | Valize Ron Boire | https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ritamcgrath_welcome-you-are-invited-to-join-a-webinar-activity-7166106643443752960-ev3u?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
74 | Wednesday | 2/21/24 | Powershift pics | Hot off the press, some pictures from the BLK SHP PowerShift conference, organized by Peter Eagle Sims featuring artists, tech people, writers, thinkers, professors - quite an eclectic group, by design. Here's Peter, being interviewed about his new book "Black Sheep: The Quest to be Human in an Inhuman Time." We also enjoyed timely warnings about the dangers of women you might meet at a pub, and what it will cost to have the barman cover for you. More reflections to follow in another post. | LI/TW/FB | #powershift #seeingaroundcorners #BLKSHP #change #humanity | Peter Sims Ed Catmull Chris Yeh Patty McCord Silicon Guild | https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ritamcgrath_innovation-management-process-activity-7166866659566153728-KQ0X?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
75 | Friday | 2/23/24 | Quote | Innovation is a process that can be described, learned, and yes, managed. |  | #innovation #management # process #quote #thoughtleadership | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
76 | Friday | 2/23/24 | Friday Fireside Chat with Chip Conley | If you are looking for a more fulfilling mid-life, this Fireside Chat is for you. Chip Conley, author of "Learning to Love Mid-Life" will be joining me today, at 12 PM EST to discuss lettting go of what doesn't serve us, the quality wisdom that comes with experience and how transforming your life for the better can happen at any age. Should be an interesting listen, click here to join us! | https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_66GQdtouRaGKV4cTD5qghA | #lovingmidlife #midlifechrysalis | Esther Perel Arthur C. Brooks Richard Rohr Daniel Pink Gretchen Rubin Bob Sutton Peter Sims Chris Yeh Amy Edmondson April Rinne Silicon Guild Jennifer Aaker David Aaker | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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79 | Monday | 2/26/24 | Upcoming Firesides announcement | Save the dates - Upcoming Friday Fireside Chats. March 1 features Anupam B. Jena, physician and co-author of the book "Random Acts of Medicine." April 26 features Barron Witherspoon, author of "The Black Exec and the 7 Myths". May 10, Steve Dennis and May 17 Paul LeBlanc! Registration and other information is available at the "Events" tab on my web site. | https://www.ritamcgrath.com/events/ | #FridayFiresideChat #events #RandomActsofMedicine #TheBlack Exec | Anupam B. Jena Barron Witherspoon Jennefer Witter The Boreland Group Columbia Executive Education Paul LeBlanc Steve Wunker Hari Nair | https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ritamcgrath_events-archive-rita-mcgrath-activity-7167951743316668416-9vfz?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
80 | Monday | 2/26/24 | Promo for Columbia course "Women in Leadership" | You still have time to register for our Columbia Executive Education Course "Women in Leadership: Next Level Success." Led by my friend and colleague Trish Gorman, the course covers career essentials that every woman and the allies supporting her in business need to know. I'll be teaching in it on March 11, on the theme of "Seeing Around Corners". It runs for 3 days on our beautiful Columbia Business School campus. It's worth making an investment in yourself and your team to gain the benefits of diversity. | https://execed.business.columbia.edu/programs/wil | #executiveducation #womeninleadership #strategy #seeingaroundcorners #womenleaders #diversity | Trish Gorman Columbia Exec Ed Mark Roberts Malia Mason | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
81 | Tuesday | 2/27/24 | Roland Berger interview promo | The one thing we know for certain about the post-COVID world is that there is no such thing as going back to a 2019 "normal" (whatever that was). Instead, senior leaders are having to deal with multiple new kinds of demands pulling them in all different kinds of ways. The winners, I expect, will be those with a fanatical commitment to learning and reducing uncertainty. I spoke about these themes in an interview with #ThinkActMagazine. You can reach our entire exchange at this link. It was a fun discussion and I think I learned a lot! | https://www.rolandberger.com/en/Insights/Publications/How-to-see-what-s-around-the-corner.html | #management #strategy #seeingaroundcorners | Roland Berger Columbia Exec Ed | https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ritamcgrath_how-to-see-whats-around-the-corner-activity-7168320008417165312-VdbO?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
82 | Tuesday | 2/27/24 | Thought Sparks: Notes from Powershift | Catalyzing change with artists, authors, thought leaders, designers and more - Powershift is an unconference convened by Peter Sims and the BLK SHP. Sims is one of the architects of #givingTuesday and author of the new book "Black Sheep: The Quest to be Human in an Inhuman Time". Here are a few notes of what the event was like. Harmonica optional. | #change #BLKSHP #powershift #renaissance #humanity #earthbound | Peter Sims Farhoud Meybodi Hamish Forsyth Kenyon Adams Billie Whitehouse Jon Leland Alexandra Wicksell Ed Catmull | https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/artist-author-inventor-go-bar-rita-mcgrath-tup1e | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
83 | Tuesday | 2/27/24 | Promotion for March 13 Drucker Forum event | Join us for an online event sponsored by the Vienna Center for Management Innovation which will kick off a series around the theme of Reframing Management for the 21st Century. Among the conversations will be the announcement of the 2024 Global Peter Drucker Forum conference theme. | https://www.druckerforum.org/special-pages/the-next-management/ | #DruckerForum #GPDF2024 #newmanagement | Tammy Erikson Michele Zanini Steve Denning Richard Straub Ilse Straub Antonella Mei-Pochtler Steve Denning Curt Carlson Avivah Wittenberg-Cox Kevin Nolan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
84 | Wednesday | 2/28/24 | Promo for Hari Nair's new book (Rita sent cover pictures to Eliza) | I have an exciting new addition to my bookshelf! The Innovative Leader is the latest collaboration from Stephen Wunker, Jennifer Luo Law, and Hari Nair, and it cracks the code on innovation at Levi's, Microsoft, and more. (With 50 interviews -- holy cow!) The book comes out in April, so keep an eye out for it at your favorite bookseller. | #innovation #strategy #growth #leadership #innovationleader | Stephen Wunker,Jennifer Luo Law, Hari Nair | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
85 | Wednesday | 2/28/24 | Promotion for NYL International Women's Day event | People have been talking about the importance of creating greater gender diversity in the financial advisory business forever - decades, perhaps. But the reality has been that since women until astonishingly recently didn't have control over their money, the industry grew up largely designed by and serving men. We are on the cusp of a major inflection point, however, in that by 2030 there is going to be a great transfer of wealth to women. The countdown is on for financial firms to figure out how to best appeal to women and how to bring women into their organizations as advisors. Join me for a live webcast on the occasion of International Women's Day to discuss this topic, sponsored by the team at New York Life. | https://event.on24.com/wcc/r/4466021/7E24E2D361131EFCBEC3DCF6363C5FBD?partnerref=NewYorkLifeInvestments | #wealthtransfer #RIA #financialadvice #womeninleadership #internationalwomensday | New York Life Janet Koh Columbia Executive Education McKinsey | https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ritamcgrath_wealthtransfer-ria-financialadvice-activity-7168640183511293954-O2xk?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
86 | Wednesday | 2/28/24 | Flipbook: Fighting back against the algorithms - Community and the redemption of Taylorism | Frederick Winslow Taylor was the first - and arguably most successful - management consultant. His concept of scientific management applied to factory work both yielded unimaginable improvements in productivity and unimaginable tensions between workers and their managers. What's been misunderstood is that the tension he faced in his own career - workers sabotaging their equipment to keep productivity levels down, for instance - was never his intention. His goal was to create cooperative arrangements in which workers would do their best and managers would share the resulting benefits with them in the form of higher pay. We tend to remember the dark side of Taylorism - the kind mocked by Charlie Chaplin in his 1936 film "Modern Times." Well, it's back in the form of algorithms that control every aspect of some worker's lives. But an interesting social experiment in Indonesia may illustrate a way in which Taylor's original vision might become reality. | https://issuu.com/ritamcgrath/docs/fighting_back_against_the_algorithms_community_a | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
87 | Wednesday | 2/28/24 | Promo for SXSW EDU event (they requested we promote) - there is a link to a downloadable image in the image line | At this year’s #SXSWEDU 2024 event, I’ll be participating in a panel with @GSV Chief People and Impact Officer @Tiffany Taylor, @Brian Glaser of Google and @Rita McGrath at @Columbia Business School for “Reimagining Education for Workforce Leaders,” on Wednesday, 3/6 at 11:30 AM local time. We’ll be dissecting how factors like AI and work-life balance are shifting the mindset of today’s leaders, how these factors are being reflected across executive education and upskilling opportunities, and more. Thank you @Emeritus for helping coordinate this discussion, and bringing together such a talented group of individuals! Learn more about the discussion: https://schedule.sxswedu.com/2024/events/PP137134. | https://schedule.sxswedu.com/2024/events/PP137134 | https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zFk7GQgKolnj3OSnHDkC9jkFecq9KclA/view | #edtech #education #upskilling #SXSWEDU #EDU #ExecutiveEducation #learning #leadershipdevelopment #seeingaroundcorners | Emeritus Columbia Executive Education Google | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
88 | Thursday | 2/29/24 | Promo for Elements on Aberrant Capitalism | Capitalism has proved a robust system for promoting innovation, increasing productivity and generally underpinning human flourishing. But in many ways, people are now questioning some of its downsides. Cambridge University Press has just released the latest in their "elements" series, looking at how we might leverage the digital revolution to get capitalism back on track. Authors Hunter Hastings and Steve Denning have given a lot of thought to how we keep the benefits of capitalism - innovation, growth and prosperity - while better managing its darker sides. For the next two weeks, Cambridge is making the book available as a free download, so don't delay. | https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/aberrant-capitalism/5DB447BF46A80480CE63AC14B58AEBAA | #capitalism #productivity #prosperity #aberrantcapitalism #customers #financialization #investment #shareholders #stakeholders #customers | Steve Denning Hunter Hastings William Lazonick Rebecca Henderson Darryl Rigby Hugo Lourenco Peter Sims Arie Lewin Carlota Perez Michael Lurie | https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ritamcgrath_aberrant-capitalism-activity-7169042732663980032-UTkf?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
89 | Thursday | 2/29/24 | Thought Leadership TBT | At the Thinkers50 event in 2013, I participated in a panel on "The Future of Enterprise" with panelists Pankaj Ghemawat, Anil Gupta, Richard Rumelt and Roger Martin. Interesting to see how many of the things we were talking about then - the shrinking of the 'good' corporation, the increased speed of everything, the shortening of competitive advantages and information transparency - have now become our reality. Worth a reflection. | https://www.ritamcgrath.com/sparks/2013/12/the-future-of-enterprise-panel-at-the-thinkers50-event/ | #predictions #Thinkers50 #panels #transientadvantage #globalization #outsourcing | Dick Rumelt Roger Martin Anil Gupta Pankaj Ghemawat Thinkers50 ColumbiaExecutiveEducation | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
90 | Friday | 3/1/24 | Friday Fireside Chat with Anupam B. Jena | Tune in at 12 pm EST for my conversation with Anupam B. Jena on today's Friday Fireside Chat! He's the Joseph P. Newhouse Professor of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School and a physician in the Department of Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, and if that weren't enough, he hosts the Freakonomics MD podcast, and has just written a fascinating book called "Random Acts of Medicine". We'll be talking about how unseen forces shape our health outcomes: everything from EZ Pass tollbooths to marathons is on the table! | https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_y_6G474iTMetfLByZKmgkg | #FridayFiresideChat #RandomActsofMedicine | Anupam B Jena Mass General Harvard Medical School Freakonomics MD Podcast | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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93 | Tuesday | 3/5/24 | Thought Sparks: PowerShift pt II | TBD | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
94 | Wednesday | 3/6/24 | Valize Promo: | We have heard it loud and clear from our corporate partners - "I don't just need a handful of people trained in the skills of creating new growth - I need hundreds, even thousands to understand it!" That led us to create our Valize learning guides - just-in-time on-line learning experiences that facilitate people learning the skills that they may never have been taught. Our first collection of guides focuses on the all-important question of how you can create meaningful insight into customer behavior and needs, insight which, when properly harnessed, can create breakthrough growth. Our first collection is now available - check it out. | https://www.valize.com/CustomerInsightToolsCollection | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
95 | Wednesday | 3/6/24 | Rita on a panel at SXSW EDU | If you’re at #SXSWEDU 2024, sit in on my panel in Room 6AB at 11:30 AM CT. I’ll be joined by @GSV Chief People and Impact Officer @Tiffany Taylor, @Brian Glaser of Google, and @Andrez Carberry of @Phillips 66. We’ll be discussing the importance of resiliency among today’s leaders, and how educational opportunities can support these skill sets among other solutions to address workforce challenges. | https://schedule.sxswedu.com/2024/events/PP137134 | https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zFk7GQgKolnj3OSnHDkC9jkFecq9KclA/view | #edtech #education #upskilling #SXSWEDU #EDU #ExecutiveEducation #learning #leadershipdevelopment #seeingaroundcorners | Emeritus Columbia Executive Education Google | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
96 | Thursday | 3/7/24 | Flipbook: Our lizard lateral brains and the exponential world we're confronting | You're not imagining things - change in technologies and systems really is speeding up! One big reason is that we are now experiencing accelerated learning curves, meaning that learning functions are getting faster. In linear systems, the ones our brains were designed for, change is additive. One plus one equals two. A journey that is to take a hundred days is 1/3 complete by day 33. In systems with an exponential function, in contrast, change happens cumulatively, which famed theorist Ray Kurzweil explans is a property that any system learning through trial and error will exhibit. It's hard to anticipate the behavior of an exponential system with a linear lens. | https://issuu.com/ritamcgrath/docs/our_lizard_lateral_brains_and_the_exponential_worl | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
97 | Friday | 3/8/24 | Big announcement for New York Life for International Women's Day | Please share photos if possible for the post! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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99 | Monday | 3/11/24 | St. Patrick's Day is the 17th we should do something around that | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
100 | Tuesday | 3/12/24 | Thought Sparks: |