Rita McGrath
Blogger, Rita Gunther McGrath Blog at Freelance
Strategy & innovation. @Columbia_Biz. @Thinkers50 top 10 & #1 in strategy. Bestselling author of #TheEndofCompetitiveAdvantage & #SeeingAroundCorners.
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1 month ago |
rgmcgrath.medium.com | Rita McGrath
In a digital environment, sentiment has become currency. How customers, investors, and the public feel about your content directly affects performance metrics, from revenues to reputation to stock price. But what happens when that sentiment is manufactured at scale? In 1993, the New Yorker published a cartoon by Peter Steiner that went viral. It depicted a conversation between two dogs, one with a paw sitting on a computer keyboard. The caption?
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2 months ago |
thoughtsparks.substack.com | Rita McGrath
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Mar 11, 2025 |
rgmcgrath.medium.com | Rita McGrath
Rita McGrath·Follow7 min read·--As Garry Ridge, the former CEO of WD-40 says, in his wonderful book Any Dumb-Ass Can Do It, citing Sebastian Junger, “The earliest and most basic definition of community — of tribe — would be the group of people that you both help feed and help defend.” And as he further says, how do you learn the skills needed to feed yourself and others and defend yourself and others? Someone patiently teaches you.
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Feb 25, 2025 |
ritamcgrath.com | . Speaker. Consultant |Isaac Bush |Rita McGrath
Throughout much of human history, power was exercised through a system of patrimonialism, as the great sociologist Max Weber coined the term. Under patrimonialism, a leader exerts power without respect to formal rules and regulations, personal allegiances and kinship ties determine who has access to critical resources and the entire system is managed with one overarching goal – to benefit the ruler.Bureaucracy was originally introduced as the antidote.
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Feb 4, 2025 |
rgmcgrath.medium.com | Rita McGrath
Rita McGrath·Follow6 min read·--Astonishingly, the age of AI introduced by the November, 2022 release of ChatGPT has been around long enough that we’re starting to build up what you can think of as conventional wisdom! Most CEO’s calmly assert that its effect on jobs will be to automate dull work and let the amazing, creative humans in their operations do what they do best. That’s comforting, but is it correct?
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How might Trump's tariffs affect your grocery bill? Imported perishable goods like fruits and seafood will very likely become more expensive, but consumers should brace for price increases across categories. Read more of my @usnews feature here: https://t.co/9W0InnD4ZV #tariffs https://t.co/mQmKVzv4lB
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