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Seeing Around Corners: How to Spot Inflection Points in Business Before They Happen

Seeing Around Corners: How to Spot Inflection Points in Business Before They Happen

A guide to anticipating and capitalizing on disruptive inflection points shaping the marketplace.

2019

Clayton Christensen, et al.

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Rita McGrath

If you want a guarantee, buy a refrigerator!

The concept of purpose has been having quite a moment — from books heralding its importance to claims that it holds the key to the hearts…

7 min read3 days ago

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If you want a guarantee, buy a refrigerator!

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Welcome to the world, SparcHub!

After 8 years since founding Valize, 4 changes of software approaches, more than 50 iterations of my Columbia Executive Education program…

6 min readApr 10, 2024

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Welcome to the world, SparcHub!

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When you miscalculate the value of brands — a rare cautionary tale from Warren Buffett

Some things in strategy are thought to be eternally valuable. Among them? Big global brands with years of mass-market advertising and…

7 min readMar 26, 2024

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When you miscalculate the value of brands — a rare cautionary tale from Warren Buffett

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Beyond the doomscrolling — movement building for positive change

Some additional thoughts from the Powershift conference that took place in February in California — guests included artists, business…

6 min readMar 12, 2024

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Beyond the doomscrolling — movement building for positive change

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The Drugs Have Won and the Smart Money Knows It (credit to Jake Novak for this great line)

What do you do when your most visible and notable spokesperson basically declares that what you’re doing is ineffective? We’re about to…

8 min readMar 5, 2024

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The Drugs Have Won and the Smart Money Knows It (credit to Jake Novak for this great line)

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Thought Sparks — February 2024 Wrap Up

Leap year is an apt metaphor for what we must navigate now — exponential change in a world designed for linear evolution. Despite…

4 min readMar 5, 2024

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Thought Sparks — February 2024 Wrap Up

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An Artist, An Author and an Inventor Go Into a Bar…

Peter Sims, author of the new book “Black Sheep: The Quest to be Human in an Inhuman Time” regularly convenes a group of artists, thought…

4 min readFeb 27, 2024

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An Artist, An Author and an Inventor Go Into a Bar…

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Could you benefit from Belonging to a Peer-to-Peer Network?

The old recipes for making a firm a talent factory have eroded. Executive development programs provided formal training specific to…

4 min readFeb 20, 2024

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Could you benefit from Belonging to a Peer-to-Peer Network?

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Fighting Back against the algorithms — Community and the redemption of Taylorism?

As algorithms have come to dominate the lives of gig workers, treating many like poorly performing robots, community structures are…

7 min readFeb 16, 2024

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Fighting Back against the algorithms — Community and the redemption of Taylorism?

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Why are so few people talking about the massive wealth transfer to women?

Until astonishingly recently in the sweep of human history, women in the United States had little control over their financial assets, and…

6 min readFeb 13, 2024

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Why are so few people talking about the massive wealth transfer to women?

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Rita McGrath

Rita McGrath

14.3K Followers

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Columbia Business School Professor. Thinkers50 top 10 & #1 in strategy. Bestselling author of The End of Competitive Advantage & Seeing Around Corners.

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