Leadership

Cios – You Can Drive Growth

Today's CIO has to spend more time figuring out how to flexibly, adaptively, bring new solutions to both insiders and customers

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Cheaper Versus Disruptive – Sprint

The company President said "This plan is designed to be disruptive

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Changing Course

People started wondering if Walgreen’s could keep growing once it had to drive more revenue out of existing stores – rather than just opening new ones.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Ceo of the Year

The culture has changed from moribund and stifling to open and aggressive as they chase new opportunities in not only cell phones, but set top boxes and MP3 players.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Catch the Shift and Grow – or Die Away – Apple Vs. Sears

Apple's CEO (and increasingly other executives) Disrupts the company's Success Formula, always challenging the company to do new things.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Career Limiting Moves

Most managers want to move up. It is characteristic to have ambition in organizations.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Can You Recognize a Whirlpool?

The fact is that Kodak is in the Whirlpool – and Kodak is far more likely to follow Polaroid into the history books than ever regain its lost value.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Can Netflix Double Pivot to Be a Media Game Changer?

Netflix has been a remarkable company. Because it has accomplished something almost no company has ever done.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Can Aol Resurrect Itself With Huffpo Acquisition?

HuffPo’s team of bloggers has shown that it’s possible to build a profitable news organization today – if you do it right.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

CEO's Ae You Serious About Driving Innovation

Innovative businesses grow twice as fast as non-innovators and they are also less likely to fail!”

Cris Beswick · 29 April 2025

CEO'S Get With It, Don’t Dictate a Culture of Innovation, Influence It

The first step is to accept that you can’t dictate a culture of innovation

Cris Beswick · 29 April 2025

Buying the Goose for Golden Eggs – Then Plucking It

The web changed things. We now do company research on-line, rather than through paper-based company reports.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Buying the Business – Kraft, Cadbury and Del Monte Vs. Google & Apple

The executives want to do "more of the same" hoping additional cost cutting (synergies – remember that word?) will give them profits from these overpriced revenues

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Buying Grandpa’s Medicine

The new Ford CEO said "The sale of Aston Martin supports the key objectives of the company, to restructure to operate profitably at lower volumes and changed model mix and to speed the development of new products.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Buy Into Trends – Buy Chipotle Sell Mcdonald’s

McDonald’s strategy was built on a 1960s trend for speed and consistency in food.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Business is Not an Olympic Sport

The Olympic gymnast is a great athlete. Designed and practiced to be the best at his sport.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Business Myths

The reality is that businesses either grow or die. Businesses exist in a competitive marketplace.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Business Lessons From the Fall of Afghanistan

It took 35 years to build the infrastructure for VHS tapes, then DVDs, to become a big market

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Building bold strategies one hypothesis at a time

A supposition or proposed explanation made based on limited evidence as a starting point for further investigation.

Cris Beswick · 29 April 2025

Building Scenarios Effectively – Zipcar, I-go, Hertz, Enterprise, Gm, Chrysler, Ford

the USA is increasingly an urban country. Every election we are reminded that while most the people live in cities, the electoral map is by state

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Breath a Sigh of Relief

Yahoo! got itself into this problem by management trying to Lock-in on a Success Formula and then Defend & Extend it in a dynamic marketplace.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Blockbuster’s Heroic Ceo

Businesses cannot survive for long depending on heroic leaders and yet the business press constantly celebrates them.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Blockbuster Does It Again

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Biting Off Your Nose – News Corp. And Rupert Murdoch

"Rupert Murdoch to remove News Corp's content from Google in months" is the London Telegraph headline.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025