The COVID-19 inflection point: Learning fast from crisis | Rita McGrath | Big Think Edge

Learning Fast From COVID-19 How to Find Opportunity and Awakening During Inflection Points with Professor Rita McGrath Moderated by Big Think co-founder and CEO, Victoria Montgomery Brown How do we make sense of an inflection point as we’re living it? How do we build more resilience into ourselves and our systems moving forward? In this interactive session, Professor Rita McGrath, one of the world’s leading experts on strategy and innovation, will share her thoughts on how we—as individuals, leaders, and organizations—can grow better under duress. The COVID-19 crisis may be the inflection point of the decade to come. Let’s learn from it—starting now. Rita McGrath is a world-renowned thought leader and a professor at Columbia Business School, where she directs the popular Leading Strategic Growth and Change program. She is widely recognized as a premier expert on leading innovation and growth during times of uncertainty. In her speeches and consulting, Rita works with Fortune 1,000 companies, helping boards, CEOs, and senior executives act strategically in rapidly changing and volatile environments. 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. Rita is the author of the best-selling The End of Competitive Advantage (Harvard Business Review Press, 2013). Her new book is Seeing Around Corners: How to Spot Inflection Points in Business Before They Happen (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019). To learn more about Rita or to get in touch, visit ritamcgrath.com.