
Do Not Follow the Herd – Sell Mcdonald’s and Microsoft
This week McDonald’s and Microsoft both reported earnings that were higher than analysts expected.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Topic
Guiding with purpose
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This week McDonald’s and Microsoft both reported earnings that were higher than analysts expected.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

The critical factor when reviewing earnings is actually not the reported results.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Mark Disrupts the engineers by introducing technologies from entirely other fields. While they attend medical equipment conferences, Mark attends gaming and consumer electronics conferences.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

The turnaround since his arrival has been large and successful.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

The new leaders plan to work harder on supply chain issues, and store plannograms, to increase turns.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Long term successful companies Disrupt their Lock-ins – those behaviors, decision-making practices and policies that keep the company doing what it always did.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

American GDP was going nowhere as Japanese producers looked like they were quickly taking over global manufacturing as well as demonstrating superior quality in a wide range of products.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

The federal government is pretty well Locked-in. Not only does it have the behavioral Lock-ins of a large bureaucracy, but it creates laws when designing its structure and decision-making processes.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

eBay was a pioneer. From humble beginnings selling Pez dispensers
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Blockbuster Video is in big trouble. Most analysts think the company is going to file bankruptcy – unlikely to survive – with a mere $.30 stock price today.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

The audience reacted with a positive roar! These managers all saw the benefit of having a low-price workstation line to augment their expensive servers.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

The Wall Street Journal reported that there was a lot of Board discourse about CEO Dimon’s pay package.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Bernie Ebbers is nothing more than another manager who fell victim to Defending and Extending a broken Success Formula.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Troubled organizations like those late in their lifecycle don’t haveany excess capacity.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

The early stages of change look just like this. A market shifting Challenge looks exactly like the 78th Academy Awards.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Wal-Mart is horribly Locked-in to its old ways, and unwilling to use White Space to create a new Success Formula.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

The new politicians are considerably left of center by U.S. standards, a dramatic shift. "Calls for Fast Action after Historic Vote" is the Yahoo! News headline.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

The reality is that with every organisation able to access the same levels of technology and manufacturing
Cris Beswick · 29 April 2025

"Dell is not a fun place to work, and it’s less fun now than it used to be."
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Vornado has acquired a 1.2% stake in McDonald’s
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Why would any music retailer think this is a good idea? Because he’s trying to find a way to Defend & Extend the Success Formula he built when music sales required a physical product.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

The outcome isn't pretty. Yet, we still have lots of leaders trying to Defend & Extend their business with techniques that are detrimental to customers.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

The latter about a decade. Which is the company you should work for, or invest in?
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025