#48 Rita Gunther McGrath - The end of competitive advantage

48 Rita Gunther McGrath - The end of competitive advantage (Columbia Business School)- d.MBA Podcast

Rita Gunther McGrath is a world-renowned thought leader and a professor at Columbia Business School. She has received the #1 achievement award for strategy from the prestigious Thinkers50 and has been consistently named one of the world’s top ten management thinkers in its bi-annual ranking.

She is an author of Discovery-Driven Growth and The End of Competitive Advantage, which are widely used in the business design community.

In this podcast we talked about:

  • how and why we should prototype with numbers,

  • why the era of sustainable competitive advantage is over,

  • and how can designers explain “inflection points” to business leaders (per Rita’s new book Seeing Around Corners).