Leadership2 min read
Microsoft’s Dismal Future
Microsoft is a very likely candidate to follow Silicon Graphics. Sun Microsystems, DEC and a host of other formerly great technology companies into the history books.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
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Guiding with purpose
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Microsoft’s $7.2b Nokia Mistake
Microsoft is not dead. And Microsoft is not without the ability to turn around.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership2 min read
Microsoft: Value Creation is About New Markets and Growth – Not Defending Your Base
Successful organizations are agile – and agility is the sum of learning + adaptability
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
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Microsoft and Linked-in – Same Song, Different Key By Adam Hartung, 14 June, 2016
Microsoft is buying Linked-In, and we should expect this to be a disaster.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
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Microsoft Should Give Xbox Biz to Nintendo
The new CEO says the company needs to focus on core markets. And analysts are making the same cry.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership6 min read
Microsoft Reorg – Crafty or Confusing?
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer appears to be planning a major reorganization.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
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Metric Motivation
the systems we use to Lock-In behavior which causes behavior to end up creating negative "unintended consequences."
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
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Merger Mistakes
The only way the desired value can be achieved is if a new entity is created that actually develops an entirely new, third Success Formula.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership2 min read
Merciless Growth
The stock was punished, dropping to it’s lowest price of the year.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership6 min read
Mcdonald’s Growth Stall is Deadl
Growth Stalls are a great forecasting tool because they indicate when a company has become “out of step” with its marketplace.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership5 min read
Market to Trends, Not Old Ideas – Kentucky Fried Chicken (Kfc)
KFC is the largest chicken franchise, with 15,000 stores. But size has not been any help as the chain has lost its growth.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership4 min read
Market Shifts and Lifecycles – Playboy, Oprah and Skype
The tendency to remain focused on Defending & Extending what was always does is so great that market shifts which demand change are overlooked in the urge to improve what was always done – even as results fade.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
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Management Illusions – Brand Management and Mit
"The Illusion of Brand Control" is a great article at Harvard Business Publishing. Andrew McAfee, who is a research scientist at the MIT Sloan school Center for Digital Business, offers the insight that in today's market it's not possible for a business to "control" its brand.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership2 min read
Making Excuses
the Wal-Mart Success Formula is seriously out of step with consumer needs. Sheer size does not make Wal-Mart a proxy, because once Wal-Mart’s Success Formula misses serving customer needs consumers keep spending – just somewhere else.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership2 min read
Make That a Double-profit Decaf Coffee
Starbucks now has over 11,000 stores. It has opened 900 so far this year, and will open 900 more before year ends.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership4 min read
Lost in the Swamp – Publishing – Random House, Tribune Corporation, News Corp.
Publishers are now in the Swamp. Cutting costs, focusing on "big deals" (like bidding wars to publish a book by a celebrity like Sarah Palin), and spending all kinds of time dealing with the supply chain.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership7 min read
Looking for Votes, or Looking for Jobs – Chicago, Minneapolis, Madison
The article has a host of ways to look at. evaluate, the mayor and the city.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
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Looking for Past Glory
The reality is that Harley’s customers are slowly marching into retirement. These stats bode for a lot of troubles – retirement is not the best age for selling motorcycles.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
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Look to New Markets to Grow- Rim, Apple, Google, Kraft
The company is in a growth stall, with U.S. market share in the first quarter dropping to 41% from 55% last year
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership5 min read
Look for Disruption, Not Consistency, to Find Superior Returns – Kraft V Groupon
The longer a company plays defense, regardless of size, trying to extend its outdated products (and business model) the riskier that business becomes
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership1 min read
Locked-in Educators
Everyone runs the risk of becoming locked into their own view of what they do.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
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Lock-in is Painful
Lock-in can afflict any company of any size or age.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
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Lock-in and High School Football
The crowd was listless, as the students and parents attending sat through the half time show expecting the season to be over for their team.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership2 min read
Listen to Those Who Don’t Love You
Listening to your biggest, and your best, customers is important, but you won’t learn much about the market.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025