Season 1
Episodes
Thought Sparks with Rita McGrath and Victoria Montgomery-Brown
Victoria Montgomery-Brown has a new book out - "Digital Goddess" which tells a no-holds-barred history of her abandoning her nice, safe, corporate job and hurtling into the world of entrepreneurship. The book is full...
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Thought Sparks with Rita McGrath and Tom Peters
Rita Gunther McGrath is a best-selling author, a sought-after speaker, and a longtime professor at Columbia Business School. Rita is one of the world’s top experts on innovation and growth and is one of the most...
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Thought Sparks with Rita McGrath and Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic
Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders? Asks the provocative title of Dr Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic's recent book. A major issue, he suggests, is that we all too often confuse confidence with competence, meaning...
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Thought Sparks with Rita McGrath and Whitney Johnson
How do you go from a newly-minted music degree to a secretarial position to becoming one of the leading analysts on Wall Street to co-founding one of the most successful boutique investment firms of all time to...
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Thought Sparks with Rita McGrath and Alexander Osterwalder
Creator of the Business Model Canvas and CEO of Strategyzer, Alexander Osterwalder joins Rita McGrath in conversation. Rita interviewed Alex about his new co-authored book "The Invincible Company," the implications of...
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Thought Sparks with Rita McGrath and Amy Webb
With everyone wondering what the future holds, especially now, it was an enormous pleasure to welcome my friend, quantitative futurist Amy Webb to a #FridayFiresideChat. She offered a great key to thinking about the...
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Thought Sparks with Rita McGrath and Dave Ulrich
Dave Ulrich is a legend in the world of talent and organizations. In this fireside chat, he and Rita McGrath will exchange ideas on the people implications of the COVID-19 crisis, focusing on the critical leadership...
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Thought Sparks with Rita McGrath and David Kidder
I was absolutely delighted to welcome David Kidder, serial entrepreneur and founder of Bionic to our #FridayFiresideChat! David shares Bionic's approach to building growth engines quickly - going from $1 to $100...
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Thought Sparks with Rita McGrath and Erin Meyer
Erin Meyer's ideas have been fundamental to our understanding of how cultures work. Her first book, "The Culture Map" is used by organizations all over the world to help them communicate better, adapt their corporate...
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Thought Sparks with Rita McGrath and Gary Hamel
Why bureaucracy is the enemy of so much innovative, human-led creativity and what to do about it. Gary Hamel, co-author of the new book "Humanocracy" and I touch on his body of work in general, which has had a huge...
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Thought Sparks with Rita McGrath and Geoffrey Moore.
What an absolute pleasure to spend an hour with my good friend and innovation thought leader Geoffrey Moore. In this #FridayFiresideChat, we discuss the arc of his breakthrough work. He's influenced generations of...
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Thought Sparks with Rita McGrath and Herminia Ibarra
Herminia Ibarra just recently published a super-timely Harvard Business review article on the topic of "leader as coach", in which she explores the skills that are so sorely needed to create higher levels of...
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