Who Will Crush Your Company?

Could it be that your company is going out of business and nobody knows it? I ask that simply because there are many people now talking about “disruptive technologies”. What are those? Think of it as a trend that will never go away. McKinsey published a...

The Ambidextrous Leader

People think differently. But how is it that entrepreneurs think differently? For, if we totally understood that — and could teach the approach — we should be able to develop more entrepreneurs. Here’s an ultra-quick briefing on what we know....

University of Reimagination (Part 3)

I consider the special task force at MIT that I described in Part 1 and Part 2 of this blog series to be a special event, mainly because it could affect all of education in multiple (and tangible) ways. It shows real leadership vision. For my final post in this...

University of Reimagination (Part 2)

In my last post, I reported that “MIT has just launched a bold, brave and public initiative to reimagine what the university could be in seven years.” MIT (as a community) involves a lot of people (it employs 11,000 people — 1000 of which are...

University of Reimagination (Part 1)

MIT has just launched a bold, brave and public initiative to reimagine what the university could be in seven years. This is the kind of nextsensing initiative that so many public and private enterprises desperately need to do but either (a) don’t know it, or (b)...