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Guiding with purpose

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Staying in the Rapids

The market explosion means these companies keep selling more and more primarily due to robust demand.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

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The good news was revenue climbed 13% and income from continuing operations rose 22%. This ability to stay in the Rapids is pretty amazing, given that a 10% growth at IBM means adding more than $10B per year.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

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Starbucks and Jpmorganchase Pay Raises – Just Following Trends

The good news is that both companies realize they cannot fight trends.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

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Sports Clips, a Great Business Idea

“Targeting men and boys, Sport Clips operators provide high quality haircuts in a fun environment, complete with TVs at every stylist’s station tuned to sports.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

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Spend on What Pays Off – Not What Your Used to Spending on – Movie Studios

The old status quo police, like Mr. Goldwyn or Mr. Meyer, simply have far less role. Digitization and globalization means that you don't need film for movies – or paper for books.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

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Sour Lemons, or Lemonade? – Playboy, Singer

The growth of women in the workforce meant a lot of new opportunities.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

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Sorry Meg, Your Hockey Stick Forecast for Hp Won’t Happen – Sell

HP was dying before Whitman arrived

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

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Sometimes It’s Just Too Easy

The company has yielded no benefits to its investors, employees or major suppliers for almost a dedace

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

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Some Leaders Never Learn – Tribune’s Big, Dumb Bet

The media industry is now over a decade into a significant shift.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

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Solutions by the Pound

the U.S. federal Government Accounting Office (GAO) was concerned about how much was being paid to programmers working for "beltway bandit" consulting firms.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

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Social Media @ Your Company: What Do You Plan to Do? – Facebook, Twitter, Linked-in

The last panel session of the day was “Today’s Technology Tools and Social Media to Growing Business.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

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So Easy to Quit – Home Depot

Home Depot is a company with a very strong Success Formula. That Success Formula met the market needs so well in the 1980s and 1990s that the company excelled beyond all expectations.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

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Smisek’s United Ouster – Were You Really Surprised?

The power of thinking that if you focus on pennies and nickels the quarters and dollars will take care of themselves is strong.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

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Small Boxes

Businesses get Locked-inside their boxes. GM, Ford and Chrysler have sold cars in Europe – but largely they have always been happy to be U.S. companies selling products in the U.S.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

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Size Isn’t Relevant – Gm, Circuit City, Dell, Microsoft, Ge

Big companies, like GE, are highly advantaged. They not only have brand, and market position, but cash, assets, employees and vendors in position to help them be even more successful!

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

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Signalling Lock-in

Microsoft’s Lock-in to their old Success Formula has kept them out of these new markets.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

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Should You Moto?

The company quickly began operating as it had 8 years earlier when it slid into disarray, lousy returns and massive layoffs as the future grew murky.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

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Short Wins, Long Losses

McDonald’s will once again be a "focused" franchisor and operator of hamburger establishments.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

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Shift Your Success Formula, or Learn Chinese – Gm, Hummer

The "good" years of the last decade were unable to produce industrial jobs, or wealth for industrial companies (i.e. – GM's bankruptcy.)

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

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Shift Happens – Fast – Telephony

The tendency is to think change will happen slowly. It doesn’t. When markets shift it happens quickly. Much more quickly than the entrenched competitor expects.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025