Show Notes
In this week’s Thought Sparks Podcast episode, Rita McGrath, a Columbia University Business School Professor, C-Suite strategist, business founder and best-selling author, welcomes Steven Goldbach and Geoff Tuff, authors of Hone: How Purposeful Leaders Defy Drift. They explore how leaders can align their organizations amid the “drift” that can accompany large transformations and other contexts of uncertainty.
8:52: Early Research: Beyond the “70-20-10" Innovation Portfolio 13:32: Strategy, Budgeting, Governance, and Career Advancement: Forces in Opposition 16:05: Detonate, Provoke, Hone: From Blowing Up the Playbook to Operationalizing a New One 20:46: The Difference Between Honing and Sharpening, from Chef Flannery Colton 25:41: Treat Change as the Normal Thing, Not the Weird Thing 27:36: What are Management Systems?: The Critical Fifth Box of the Choice Cascade 35:03: The Role of Visionary CEOs 38:00: A Guide to Human Behavioral Change, and Patience 42:40: Transformation and Innovation at Deloitte 48:00: Case Studies in Collaboration from Sony and the Mayo Clinic 51:49: Diseconomies of Scale, and the Risks of Being Too Big to Hone 59:00: Single-Person-Unicorns, and How Units of Value Creation Change 1:01:05: “We Don’t Have Eight Planets to Burn”: The Sustainability Question
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