Leadership5 min read
Trends Really Matter – Ask Safeway and Aldi
The grocery industry is truly global, because everyone eats and almost nobody grows their own food.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Topic
Leadership
Guiding with purpose
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Leadership2 min read
Transitions Are Tough
HP is going to redirect what it sells and how it sells it.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership3 min read
Tough Week in White Space
Mr. Zander approved a quick $4.5billion stock buyback. And now he’s agreed to an even larger $7.5 billion buyback
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership6 min read
Toubled Leadership
The Tribune Corp needed a big dose of internal Disruption, and plenty of White Space to figure out where advertisers were going and how to appeal to them.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership9 min read
Top 6 Reasons Projects Fail – 8 Steps to Avoid the Failures!
The approach to project management since the 1960s has been the same.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership5 min read
Too Locked-in to Learn
The problem lies in management. It’s hard to find a more Locked-in administrator than the one in your local school.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership1 min read
Too Big to Fail? Risk and Protection in Shifting Markets – Lehman, Bank of America, Merrill Lynch, Citibank
The exact same failing brought down Wall Street, Detroit and Main Street's real estate speculators.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership6 min read
Too Big to Fail? Overcoming Size Disadvantages – Jpmorgan Chase
The author is an esteemed economics professor at NYU. He says "too big to fail is dangerous.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership1 min read
Today's CEOs not fit to lead?
Gabor George Burt · 29 April 2025
Leadership6 min read
To Grow in 2011 Plan Like Virgin, Apple and Google
The next step for most planners is to attempt extending the business into something adjacent.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership4 min read
Time to Get Serious About Change – Gm’s Bailout Negotiations
The negotiations are focusing on whether GM can be competitive. But, unfortunately, GM seems to be directing that discussion toward cost reductions
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership3 min read
Time of Year Many Forecast – but Scenario Planning is What’s Needed
forecasting doesn't help managers much at all – unless we can expect things in the future to be mostly like the past. And after 2008 – who would think that's very likely?
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership3 min read
Tides Vs. Tsunamis
Improvement is always just around the corner from China expansion, investments in lower-cost distribution, and store extensions.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership3 min read
Three Leadership Lessons From Tree Climbing Goats
No. You’re not seeing things. These are goats in trees.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership7 min read
Those Who Lead (Zebra Tech) and Those Who Abdicate (Motorola)
The CEO’s team spent a lot of time refining the message, to be clear about the benefits of this transaction.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership6 min read
This is How to Lead Change — The Agile Way
The organization as a living organism will interpret and react to these impulses in its own way.
Marc Sniukas · 29 April 2025
Leadership5 min read
They Weren’t Stupid – So What Next?
The management at Motorola is filled with very bright, hard working people. Most of them have been quite successful inside Motorola or from outside and recruited in.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership3 min read
They Stayed Too Long at the (Holiday) Party – the Oracle and Best Buy Hangover
This week Oracle missed earnings estimates, and the stock fell some 14%, from $30 to under $26. For the year, Oracle is down about a third, from it’s high of $37.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership2 min read
They Never See It Coming
Wal-Mart has done about everything a discount retailer can do right.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership2 min read
They Never See It Coming
The national airlines (United and American) never dreamed that Southwest would one day be national, have much higher customer satisfaction and be more profitable.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership2 min read
The “mature” Word
The thinking used to be that the cash flow was sound, due to market domination, so the cash could be paid out.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership1 min read
The Wrong Stuff
The leadership of these companies has done everything it can to continue Defending and Extending their broken Success Formula.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership4 min read
The Waltons Are Cashing Out of Walmart - And You Should Be, Too
WalMart has limited growth plans
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership4 min read
The Waltons Are Cashing Out Of Walmart — And You Should Be, Too
WalMart has limited growth plans
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025