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Rita McGrath

Fast Company

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We’ve lived through a skills apocalypse before. The solution might look like a flight simulator

AI is eroding hard-won skills the way cockpit automation eroded pilots’ instincts. Aviation’s answer wasn’t to ban the autopilot. It was to...

02.07.2026 6

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Rita McGrath

When your company needs a new leader, ‘Insider or Outsider?’ is the wrong question

The variable that matters more is where the company should be centered, and who can organize it around that logic.

25.06.2026 9

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More and more, these invisible hands are shaping your restaurant, hotel, event, and other purchases

These are the companies quietly inserting themselves into critical decision points.

18.05.2026 10

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Farewell to MIT Sloan Management Review: Now what for management ideas?

This is a major inflection point for management thinking. Here’s what it means.

05.05.2026 20

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Rita Mcgrath

For years, employers treated degrees as a proxy for competence. Technology just called their bluff

‘Degree Hacking’ is the logical end of a broken credential system.

30.04.2026 10

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Why people can’t build wealth on wages alone, and what to do about it

At the root of the solution are new forms of ownership.

16.04.2026 10

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Rita Mcgrath

What John Galliano going to Zara tells us about fashion—and everything else

It looks like fashion news. It’s actually a signal about the future of value creation itself.

03.04.2026 10

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Why we need to rethink scale

In an increasingly digitized world, it may not be as important as it used to be.

27.03.2026 20

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Is the AI era the beginning of the end of VC as we know it?

The minimum viable team for building a significant technology business has dropped to one.

17.03.2026 10

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The $150 oil shock might be exactly what our future needs

A crisis in the Strait of Hormuz is terrifying. But what if expensive oil isn’t a bug in the transition to a green, knowledge-based economy, but a...

10.03.2026 10

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Our attitude toward kids and social media has shifted dramatically. Here’s what that can teach us about change

For those who study how change happens, this is a master class.

26.02.2026 20

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Beware the business school case study: the cautionary tale of Southwest Airlines

Case studies capture what worked at a particular moment. That doesn’t mean it will work again

20.02.2026 20

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Is your hit product a ‘gateway product’?

28.01.2026 10

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Why dynamic pricing is becoming the rule, not the exception

04.12.2025 30

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How ‘good enough’ products are disrupting premium pricing

20.11.2025 20

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What the Tilly Norwood moment should teach us

22.10.2025 10

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Rita McGrath