Leadership2 min read
Fleet of Foot
The Lock-in creates blinders have them moving too late when Challenges develop.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Topic
Leadership
Guiding with purpose
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Leadership6 min read
Five Worst Ceos Revisited – How Many Jobs Did They Create This Labor Day?
The company has had 6 consecutive quarters of declining traffic, as sales per store continue to lag – demonstrating leadership’s inability to excite people to shop in their stores as growth shifts to dollar stores.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership9 min read
Five Reasons I Regret Writing About Millennial Entrepreneurs
“10 Great Lessons From Millennial Entrepreneurs
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership4 min read
First Do No Harm
This deal is just another effort to Defend & Extend the traditional hub/spoke airline system the major airlines have used – unprofitably – for 30 years.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership2 min read
Fire the Status Quo Police! – Forbes, at&t, Microsoft, Dec, P&g, Sears, Motorola
Market shifts, created by competitors launching new technologies, new pricing models, new delivery models or other new solutions cause the value of old solutions to decline.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership5 min read
Finding the Rapids, or the Whirlpool
The company is constantly trying to stave off rumors of an impending bankruptcy. Meanwhile, the company equity value today is less than it was 50 years ago
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership2 min read
Finding Optimism
too many leaders use Defend & Extend Management and kill the growth of their company. They manage for protection of the old Success Formula and wipe out all capabilities to Disrupt.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership2 min read
Financial Machinations
The only reason to undertake such an action is to protect the existing Success Formula. In IBM’s case the company’s most recent earnings announcement (last week) saw earnings increase in North America only 1%.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership4 min read
Financial Machination to Hide Poor Performance – Pfizer
Pfizer is planning a mega- acquisition by purchasing Wyeth (chart here) for some $65B (read article here). That's about 3 times revenue for a company growing at less than 10%/year.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership5 min read
Fighting Trends is Expensive – Coke and Mcdonald’s
The open question now, for patient investors with a multi-year focus, is whether either, or both, companies are going to go back to long-term valuation growth (meaning they are a buy) or if their value has fizzled (meaning they are a sell)?
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership3 min read
Fearing Cannibalization Versus White Space
Fear of cannibalization caused him to avoid new innovations which would grow total demand, and considerably grow the revenues of his fledgling movie business.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership2 min read
Falling Off the Cliff
The pressure became so great Howard was forced to go from public radio (called terrestrial radio now) to pay radio (called satellite radio.)
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership2 min read
Fake-out
the company has not Disrupted any of its old Lock-ins. They have not admitted that the Success Formula is outdated, and they have not attacked any of the Lock-ins keeping the company doing what it has always done.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership3 min read
Fake Growth
The signs of a good acquisition are when the buyer says (a) this will change our way of doing business (b) we will operate this in a seperate environment so it can develop its own market approach (c) we will monitor progress and look to adopt learning from this new acquisition in our existing business.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership4 min read
Fait Accompli
The CEO, who over the last few years has watched the company lose market share, see it’s share price drop to a 54 year low (chart here), sold off many of the most valuable remaining assets (like GMAC) and overseen write-offs that exceed the entire market value of the firm is not responsible??
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership4 min read
Failing Industrial Practices – Sara Lee
unfortunately, almost nobody likes Sara Lee anymore. Oh – the products are great – it's the company, primarily its leadership, that's a disaster
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership3 min read
Facing Challenges
This database will have photographs of every home, as well as assessor’s data and the company’s own valuation.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership5 min read
Executive Pay – for Performance? – Xto Energy
The harder and smarter you work, the more you get done and you can make more money. This is pure pay for performance.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership2 min read
Excuses, Excuses
the CEO should have been Disrupting the old Lock-ins and implementing White Space to transform the company.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership4 min read
Everything Old is New Again: Oracle’s Microsoft Strategy
Oracle has made some efforts to delve into the Cloud Computing fray with the Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud, or “Cloud-In-a-Box”, leveraging their SUN and ATG acquisitions.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership3 min read
Even a Stopped Clock…..
The decade of declining incomes in real terms met with the credit contraction of 2008, as well as declining home and auto values, reducing available cash for consumers.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership2 min read
End of the Road – Sara Lee, Bp
The New York Times reported recently “In BP’s Record: A History of Boldness and Costly Blunders.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership3 min read
Enabling innovation leadership
The key challenge is staying relevant to customers whilst being three steps ahead of competitors both existing and new in a world,
Cris Beswick · 29 April 2025
Leadership5 min read
Embracing a Higher Minimum Wage – to Win
The implications for businesses that use low-priced labor are clear. It is time to change the business model – to adapt for a different future.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025