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Guiding with purpose
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The brand is now so tarnished that Sears Holdings is writing down the value of the Sears name by another $200million – reducing intangible value from the $4B at origination in 2004 to under $2B.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
The current CEO Mayer and her team, after months of accomplishing nothing to improve Yahoo’s competitiveness and growth prospects, is now out of ideas.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
In March, 2008 WalMart sued a brain damaged employee. The employee was brain damaged by a truck accident.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
The amazing thing was that anyone ever believed this acqisition was going to be good for anyone.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Tesla has historically been selling much more expensive cars, the Model S being its big seller in 2015
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Management often gives the most glaring signs of a telltale problem
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Wrigley is well known for its chewing gum – a no growth business at best. In 2005 Wrigley acquired the candy business from Kraft, including Altoids and Lifesavers.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
The CFO is frequently the second most powerful individual, behind only the CEO.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Adam Hartung: Do businesses need to lessen the CFO role, and heighten the CHRO role?
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
The era of conglomeration was built on false assumptions that large companies could control their destiny and through optimization generating ever larger returns.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
The stock remains highly priced largely on the belief he’s building a war chest to do great hedge fund deals, but so far he’s not demonstrated Sears and KMart give him the resources to pull that off.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
the impact isn't just regarding the web, but how any business would use media to reach a target audience. Most advertising agencies, and ad people, are still focused on traditional media.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
WalMart has exhibited all the traits of a company deeply in the Swamp.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership keeps saying it can somehow improve it’s broken Success Formula and thusly turn the company around.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
The previous CEO recognized this, and undertook a wave of projects to grow the company.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Target has become internally focused on "execution" of its Success Formula
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
The reality is that none of these subsidized companies are sustainable as they are. The market has shifted, and their Success Formulas no longer produce positive results.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
The business is Locked-in to its Success Formula, but a market shift causes the results to no longer be as good as they used to be.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
The first loss goes to the Minnesota Vikings. Every team is built by growing a powerful squad. By hiring "yesterday's hero" the Vikings have admitted they are not looking to the future
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
The Leader May Drive Personality
Stephen Shapiro · 29 April 2025
The much larger competitor had not ignored their smaller competitor, but they were not prepared for the use of an unexpected strategy.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
AOL became obsolete because the market shifted – while AOL tried holding on to its initial Success Formula.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
“The iPad is Already Bigger than the iPod — and Half as Big as the Mac” is the Business Insider article.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
The Chicago-area Kraft executives would like to blame this good management decisions to close unprofitable lines.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025