Cameron & Associates Congratulates Rita McGrath for Winning 2013 Thinkers50 Award for Distinguished Achievement for Strategy
NEW YORK, Nov. 21, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Cameron & Associates congratulates managing partner Rita Gunther McGrath for winning this year's Thinkers50 Distinguished Achievement Award for Strategy during the 2013 Thinkers50 Awards Gala in London. The Thinkers50 is the premier global ranking of business thinkers. McGrath first entered the ranking as the 19th ranked "thinker" in 2011 and this year has moved up to number 6, placing her as one of the top ten management thinkers in the world. McGrath's book, The End of Competitive Advantage: How to Keep Your Strategy Moving As Fast as Your Business (HBR Press, 2013) was also short-listed in the 'best book' category.
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The Distinguished Achievement Award for Strategy recognizes McGrath as the person CEO's "turn to for practical and imaginative strategic advice," and who can "see your world in a new light and figure out a way through the competitive complexity," as the award criteria spell out.
"I'm deeply honored for this recognition," said McGrath. "It's an acknowledgement that dramatic changes in business have unearthed a major gap between traditional approaches to strategy and the way the real world works now. It's time to go beyond the quest for sustainable competitive advantage. Instead, organizations need to forge a new path to winning: capturing opportunities fast, exploiting them decisively, and moving on even before they are exhausted. You only have to open the newspaper to see how what I call the transient advantage economy has caught up with firms such as Procter & Gamble, Blackberry, Blockbuster and even the manufacturers of point-and-shoot cameras. There isn't a CEO today who shouldn't be looking hard at developing a new playbook for strategy."
McGrath is a Professor at Columbia Business School in New York City and is an expert on strategy in uncertain and volatile environments. In addition to The End of Competitive Advantage, McGrath has co-authored three previous books: Discovery Driven Growth: A Breakthrough Process to Reduce Risk and Seize Opportunity (2009); MarketBusters: 40 Strategic Moves that Drive Exceptional Business Growth (2005); and The Entrepreneurial Mindset (2000), all published by Harvard Business Review Press.
To find out more information about McGrath, please visit www.ritamcgrath.com and follow @rgmcgrath on Twitter.
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