Costas Markides, professor of strategy at the London Business School, is one of the world’s foremost experts on strategy and innovation.

He examines how companies can create a culture of continuous innovation and the role that individual managers play in making a company more innovative.

Costas is the author of four books on strategy and innovation, he was listed by Forbes.com as one of the world’s most influential management gurus, and has served as a Fellow of the World Economic Forum in Davos.

Costas received his BA and MA in Economics from Boston University, and his MBA and DBA from Harvard Business School. 

In this episode we discuss the following:

• What often seems like an obvious answer to a problem is usually not the right answer. In the ‘60s and ‘70s, 1000s of companies diversified, only to refocus decades later. An obvious explanation for this was that the companies had made a mistake. But an alternative explanation was that the companies were right to diversify when they did and then right to refocus when they did because the market had changed.

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