I was very pleased to have been awarded a 2010 McKinsey Award by Harvard Business Review for my article The Age of Customer Capitalism. Each year, for the past 52 years, a panel of judges has selected the top two articles of the year as winners of an award sponsored by McKinsey and Company. My article was awarded second place (to an excellent Clayt Christensen article).
I am doubly pleased about the award because the article summarizes the thesis of my new book Fixing the Game: Bubbles, Crashes and What Capitalism can Learn from the NFL, which is launching on May 3. The book takes on an important subject – why we keep having devastating bubbles & crashes – with what I hope readers find to be an entertaining analogy to the National Football League.
I was very pleased to get supportive words of praise for the book’s jacket from Paul Volcker, Jack Bogle, Arianna Huffington, Paul Tagliabue, Nandan Nilekani and Judy Samuelson. I was particularly pleased in that those were to only six that I asked to consider doing a cover blurb. They all said yes! Very nice of them.
I hope you read the article and the book and would welcome all comments.
Bravo, Roger!
April 25, 2011 at 4:38PM by Michael
Hi Roger,
We met back in 2006 at the HCI conference in Chicago (I was moderating a KM panel discussion and Hubert Saint-Onge and I sat in on your workshop). I have carried with me these years your insightful comment regarding creative people being the canaries of the mine regarding innovation. I was just updating my blogroll links and found your site, and so wanted to offer heartfelt congratulations on your having received the McKinsey Award!
All the best,
Dan
April 26, 2011 at 1:19PM by Dr. Dan Kirsch
The age of customer capitalism, the age of turbulence, the age of globalization – these are only a few definitions of our interesting time, given by the Dean of Rotman School of Mangement, by the former US Federal Reserve Chairman, and by the Knight of the British Empire. In my opinion, we live in a time of global changes, induced by evolving innovative capitalism.
Viktor O. Ledenyov, Kharkov, Ukraine
February 12, 2012 at 5:05AM by Viktor O. Ledenyov, Ukraine