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Nj Governor Christie Vetoes Higher Minimum Wage — Happy Labor Day
the governor makes quite a bit more than the minimum wage
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
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Leadership1 min read
Newspapes and Market Shifts – Part 2 – Your Comments
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership3 min read
Newspaper Weaknesses – Quotes for Nyt, Washington Post, Latimes, Chicago Tribune
The great breakthrough of the internet is you aren't restricted to a single (or possibly) two sources. You can find articles about anything from a political speech to an automobile accident published by 5, 10 maybe hundreds or thousands of sources.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership1 min read
New Ebook – the Fall of Gm
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership4 min read
New Decade – New Normal
"the old boys club" of white men in top business leadership roles is quickly going to change dramatically. In the Economist article "We Did It" we learn that in 2010 the American workforce will shift to more than 50% women.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership6 min read
Netflix Valuation is Not a “house of Cards”
the success of this series may have a measurable impact on the valuation of Netflix.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership3 min read
Nero Fiddled….. – Gm and Whitacre
Product sales, and even dealerships, are being propped up using government subsidies. The best news in the GM business has been all the troubles Toyota is having.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership5 min read
Neil Armstrong’s Legacy – More Important Now Than Ever
As the American economy sputters, southern Europe looks to drag down economic growth across the continent, and growth slows in China the need for economic stimulus has never been greater.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership3 min read
Myths Can Hide Trends – Budweiser & the Craft Beer
The biggest, old line brands have suffered terribly. Nearly gone are old brands like Milwaukee’s Best, which were best known for being low priced – and certainly not focused on taste.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership5 min read
Myth of Perpetuity
The same is true for most businesses. Yet, for about a decade we’ve known that the odds of a healthy public company surviving a mere decade is, at best 50/50.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership2 min read
Much Ado About Nothing
The number of salespeople, or other employees does not go up. All that happens is the total sales and earnings is now divided by a smaller number of shares.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership4 min read
Moving to New Markets – Seattle Post Intelligencer
The on-line paper already achieves about 4million hits/month, and it hasn't really started trying to be competitive on-line.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership1 min read
Moving The Box
The phrase ‘thinking outside the box’ has become so embedded in the business lexicon that it now seems to be the ‘go to’ phrase every time something new or different is in the offing
Cris Beswick · 29 April 2025
Leadership3 min read
Moving Forward Vs. Moving Backward – Pepsi Vs. P&g
the Pepsi staff has some new ideas. Recently Pepsi's Chairperson, Ms. Nooyi, made a trip to China for 10 days.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership2 min read
Moving Beyond Your Success Formula – Beyond Customers and Partners – Dell, Microsoft, Google
Dell is moving far too slowly, and is far too uncommitted, to new businesses.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership3 min read
More, Better, Faster, Cheaper
The Chicago Tribune ran front page articles today on just how badly the airlines are performing – looking at plane crowding, delays, lost baggage and customer complaints
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership3 min read
More, Better, Faster Problems
The problems in these newspapers, like all newspapers, relate to more competition for readership from the internet and other targeted news products. The old big-city newspaper "natural monopoly" has been erased by these new players.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership4 min read
More of the Same?
The industry was very good for my home state, creating jobs and raising the standard of living. But that was then. What we need to address is the future.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership2 min read
More of the Same – Problems – Dell Downgrade
Dell is on track with its plan to cut $3billion in costs by 2011" interpretation – Dell is cutting costs, not growing revenueTo steal from an old Kentucky Fried Chicken ad "Dell did one thing, and did it right
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership5 min read
More Microsoft in the Soup – Harvard Business Review Getting It Wrong!
The Forbes column didn't debate whether Microsoft was likely to remain dominant in PC operating systems – that is a foregone conclusion.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership5 min read
Momentum is a Killer – the Demise of Rim, Yahoo and Dell
The last week 3 big announcements showed just how damning the "strategy" of building on historical momentum can be.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership4 min read
Misplaced Optimism Vs. Action
"The fallout of this forced downsizing of the nation’s newsrooms is not being replaced elsewhere in our society, nor is it likely to be.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership3 min read
Mindset – Not Location
The country has one of the greatest poverty rates in the world, and struggles with education, health care and all other poverty-based problems
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership3 min read
Migrate, Don’t Milk
The notion goes that you can take a viable, but slow (or no) growth business and stop investing.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025