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Podcast: The Strategy Skills Podcast: Strategy | Leadership | Critical Thinking | Problem-Solving
Episode: 582: McKinsey's Venkat Atluri, How to thrive in the ecosystem economy (Strategy Skills classics)
Description: Venkat Atluri, McKinsey senior partner and coauthor of The Ecosystem Economy: How to Lead in the New Age of Sectors Without Borders, explains how value creation is shifting from stand-alone enterprises to coordinated networks of collaborators. Drawing on two decades advising leaders in technology, media, and telecom, he outlines what makes ecosystem businesses distinct from traditional conglomerates—and the governance required to make them work at scale. Atluri emphasizes that ecosystems aren't about diversification for its own sake, but about following a customer-led thread: "Start with the customer and then follow the thread—what...