Leaders ascend to their positions by mastering today’s (or even yesterday’s) business. Almost by definition, they don’t have first-hand experience with a disruptive shift in their market when they encounter it. A lack of intuition around the new and different can at best slow progress and at worst lead to serious strategic missteps. What should Read more about Leading a Digital Transformation? Learn to Code[…]

Croatian conglomerate Agrokor is the top grocery player in five countries. In this interview, the company’s head of retail reflects on the rewards and challenges of cross-border growth. Source: McKinsey Becoming a regional powerhouse in food retailing

Are we in for a bumpy ride? How bumpy? And for how long? Source: McKinsey Shifting tides: Global economic scenarios for 2015–25

Fantasy-sports leagues are red hot. But ensuring recreational players stay involved presents a fundamental operating challenge. Source: McKinsey For daily fantasy-sports operators, the curse of too much skill

Dominic Casserley, CEO of the global risk advisor and insurance broker, explains the importance of making businesses, cities, and countries better equipped to survive emerging risks such as cyberattacks. Source: McKinsey Willis Group on the changing risk landscape

For most of my first nine years homebrewing I produced wort with the standard “American” process. I mashed in a five gallon cooler fitted with a homemade copper manifold, recirculated by hand, manually fly/batch sparged, and chilled with an immersion chiller. It is a process (detailed here) that is simple, reliable, hands-on, and which makes Read more about Minimal Sparge: An Easier Way to Brew[…]