Words of Wisdom — August 17, 2014

Rita Gunther McGrath on Leadership

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“Leaders need to be increasingly discovery driven, meaning they have to be able to adapt their mindset as new information comes in and they have to be very candid and willing to have frank discussions about what’s really going on.”

-Rita McGrath, professor at Columbia Business School and the author of The End of Competitive Advantage

Watch this clip from her Big Think interview:

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