Rita McGrath on Strategies and Corners

Rita McGrath

Seeing Around Corners on a way to the future

Rita is a longtime professor at Columbia Business School as well as an advisor and speaker, and is consistently ranked among the top 10 management thinkers in the world. I met her and heard her at the Global Peter Drucker Forum in Vienna several years ago.
She is the author of The End of Competitive Advantage and more recently Seeing Around Corners: How to Spot Inflection Points in Business Before They Happen.

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The Transcript

Setting the scene

Seeing Around Corners

Futurist and Strategy Thinker

Common misconception about the future

How to see inflection points

Permissionless and distributed

What to do in this transition?

Thought Sparks

Tripwires and decision-making frameworks

Writing books and mistiming the release

Writing about yourself in the future

The next generation: fathers and their children

Public education not doing its job

Challenge for humanity to solve this decade

Permissionless organization

Creating a new world after leaving the old one behind