This week's edition of Action Points features Sabina Nawaz's practical tips for coping with the pressures of leadership, including designing more purposeful "containers" such as rituals or meetings, and developing "Blank Space" windows organization-wide to develop clarity on your shared goals.

You can’t afford to wait for information to trickle up and down the hierarchy.
In a world shaped by AI, geopolitical shifts, and constant reinvention, we need organizations that learn as fast as they execute.

This book is for the people responsible for answering that question.
For those making big decisions about how work happens, how people grow, and how strategy moves through an organization.

Its mission remains the same: de-risk innovation by embracing uncertainty.
And as generative #AI reshapes work as profoundly as mechanization reshaped labor, we need these tools more than ever.
Here’s to 30 years—and the future still ahead.

#DDG
#ritamcgrathgroup #strategy #businessstrategy #csuite

From minimum viable products to reverse income statements, these techniques became the foundation for what’s now standard in innovation circles. Today, Discovery-Driven Growth is used across industries: from Amazon to Mastercard, in classrooms around the world.

Instead of conventional forecasting, we asked:
🔹What must be true for this idea to succeed?
🔹How can we test that assumption quickly and cheaply?
🔹What can we learn before we bet big?

I noticed companies struggling to enter new spaces as if they had facts, when all they really had were assumptions. So we flipped the script.

Scott's book – out today! – unpacks 11 major disruptions that dramatically changed our lives. It's funny, engaging, and insightful, and I recommend it to anyone looking to decode disruption.

...That mindset mirrors strategic optionality: preparing for multiple futures by identifying no-regret moves and well-defined trigger points for action."

Forbes Councils Member David Jones put it aptly:

"It's not enough to spot these early signals of change. The real challenge is building organizations resilient and responsive enough to act when the moment is right....

Inflection points – which are 10X shifts in what's possible – don't come out of nowhere. Rather, you can spot the early warnings at the edges of an organization that warn of a brewing inflection point.

#MS25 #Leadership #Resilience #ManagementSummit #Lisbon #TheAgileThinkers #WorldManagementAgilityForum #Agile #Lean #PurposeDriven #Management

I'll be leading a session with Steve Denning on how autonomous teams, guided by Agile principles, can drive innovation and create customer value.

With cases from the Democratic Party, the Nine Inch Nails, Tesla, and more, we discuss the importance of storytelling and narrative thinking in a time of information overload, shortened attention spans, and persuasion used for powers of good and evil.

Our last edition of the course sold out completely, so if you'd like to join us to kick-start your academic year, don't put off registering.

execed.business.columbia.edu/programs/lsg...

#trailblazersplaybook #seeingaroundcorners #womeninbusiness #womeninleadership #executiveeducation

I've asked her to talk about her new book, "The Trailblazer's Playbook" to give hope to those who think they can't make an impact in these complex, confusing times. Sylvia is living proof that it can be done! You can pre-order the book here: www.amazon.com/Trailblazers....