Leadership3 min read
Way Too Late
The internet is just the latest competitive technology – but it is the one which has pushed the industry into the Whirlpool from which it won’t return.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Topic
Leadership
Guiding with purpose
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Leadership4 min read
Watch Out for Growth Stalls — Walgreen
Walgreens has been a marvel at opening new stores.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
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Wasting Time and Money
Microsoft grew incredibly fast, literally won every marketing war it engaged in, dominated its markets and made huge amounts of money.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
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Want a Wild Ride?
The average age of its customers has kept rising, until now its over 50. Its new product introduction has been between anemic and nonexistent.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership6 min read
Walmart’s the Titanic, and Mexican Bribery is Its Iceberg – Jump Ship
WalMart's industrial strategy is similar to the Titanic strategy. Build a boat so big it can't sink. And if any retailer could be that big, then WalMart was it.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership4 min read
Walmart Investors Should Worry About Tracy Morgan Lawsuit – a Lot
Walmart isn’t doing all that well. It is losing customers, even as the economy recovers
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership1 min read
Walk Away Smiling
For over a year now Motorola has been opening White Space right and left. The results have been fantastic
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership6 min read
Wake Up! Ballmer’s Driving Microsoft Off a Cliff!
Steve smiles and says “Well, I wake up Alex.”
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership2 min read
Wake Up or Get Out of the Way
News Corp is a major player in internet communications owning, among other properties, MySpace.com. This is in addition to book publishing, newspapers, direct broadcast satellite, film, cable TV, and magazines.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership3 min read
Waiting for the Economy? That Won’t Work.
People fear they'll lose their jobs, so they don't eat out as often.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership3 min read
Wait, Too Late
Kodak missed the digital photography wave, and in the 1990’s was kicked off the Dow Jones Industrial Average. Kodak has recently layed off nearly 30,000 employees
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership1 min read
Velveeta-land
Company CEO Deromedi explained away the poor performance with "We don’t want to repeat mistakes we made in early 2003 when we raised prices and had significant share declines."
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership1 min read
Vegas Big Mac Attack
According to the Chicago Tribune, "The store managers’ performance will largely determine just how successful McDonald’s is going forward."
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership2 min read
Value Goes to Growth – Apple, Microsoft, Sears/kmart
Apple now has a market cap of $210B. Microsoft has a market cap of about $260B.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership2 min read
Unleashing Leadership Curiosity
“Design is more than a feeling: it is a CEO-level priority for growth and long-term performance.”
Cris Beswick · 29 April 2025
Leadership3 min read
United – This is Not “any Way to Run an Airline”
The good folks at Wichita State (a final four contender as U.S. basketball fans know) and Purdue released their 2013 Airline Quality Rating.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership2 min read
Unfit for Flight
United bought into a strategy over 30 years ago of “hub and spoke,” which was fed by a desire to be the biggest airline.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership2 min read
Unambiguous Lock-in
Sears is in the Whirlpool. "Pride goes before the fall" according to Proverbs, and there’s nothing but pride in Sears’ executive suite.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership4 min read
Uh, Oh – Will Starbucks Recover?
Starbucks was a model of growth. While the company was expanding its shops the previous CEO looked into the future and developed a series of new businesses to augment the original business:
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership7 min read
Uber: Be Very Careful Before Hiring Jeff Immelt as CEO
Investors want a new CEO that will eliminate the scandals
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership4 min read
Two Lessons for Us All From Crumbled Crumbs Bake Shop
The founders of Crumbs had a passion for cupcakes. But, they had no way to control an onslaught of competitors who could make different variations of the product.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership2 min read
Trying New Things to Grow Can Be Cheap and Effective – Motel 6 and Rock Bands
A word we rarely use in the USA, the British will hear of a good idea and respond "brilliant.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership7 min read
Trump Vs. Clinton – Which Party is Better for the Economy?
the headlines don’t seem to align with that position. Today we learned that U.S. household net worth climbed by over $1trillion in the second quarter
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership5 min read
Trends: Understanding Aging and Immigration Are Critical for Future Success
Over 25% of all Japanese are over 65. For decades Japan has had only 1.4 births per woman
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025