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Leadership3 min read

What Business Are You in? Overcoming Identity – Apple & Hewlett Packard (Hp)

HP started as an instrumentation company, making electronic tools, such as oscilliscopes, for engineers.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Innovation3 min read

What Bill Clinton Said – and It Was All About Making Profit

President Clinton highlighted the importance of profit in solving problems, encouraging innovative thinking beyond zero-sum games

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Leadership4 min read

What Are You Supposed to Do About Shifting Markets – Tribune and P&g

"P&G Considers Booting Some Brands" as headlined in the Wall Street Journal is yet another alternative.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Leadership7 min read

What Are You Counting? – Bank Bailouts and Mark to Market Accounting

The Japanese came across this problem in the middle-1990s. Their economy exploded in the 1980s. Real estate in Tokyo became the most expensive in the world.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Investment6 min read

Wells Fargo Ceo Stumpf is Gone: is This the Beginning of Wholesale Leadership Change?

CEO Stumpf’s testified to Congress that he didn’t know the details of what was happening at the lower levels of his bank.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Leadership1 min read

Well Put

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Innovation5 min read

Welcome to the Mid Zone of Innovation

This article introduces the Mid Zone of Innovation as a crucial phase between ideation and commercialization in the innovation process.

Anthony Mills · 29 April 2025

Culture1 min read

Welcome to the Jungle

Gabor George Burt · 29 April 2025

Leadership4 min read

Wearing a Bullseye on Your Business – Walmart

Target have been figuring out how to beat WalMart on specific items, while also offering a better shopping experience.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Culture1 min read

We are in the midst of a laughter drought

Stanford University MBA candidate Eric Tsytsylin made a short video presentation featured on the university website, asserting that “adults are in the midst of a laughter drought.

Gabor George Burt · 29 April 2025

Culture5 min read

We Need to Stop Glorifying Failure. Here's What to Do Instead

The same is true of about three quarters of corporate transformations, which is probably why the average lifespan on the S&P 500 continues to shrink.

Greg Satell · 29 April 2025

Innovation10 min read

We Have Failure All Wrong

Anthony Mills · 29 April 2025

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

Leadership4 min read

Watch Out for Growth Stalls — Walgreen

Walgreens has been a marvel at opening new stores.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Leadership3 min read

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

Innovation2 min read

Warren buffett’s painful ibm lesson – have you learned it?

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Innovation3 min read

Warren buffett is loading up on apple – why you should be wary

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Practice3 min read

Want to Ask Better Questions? Try This Powerful Exercise

I've asked this question of thousands of executives over the years, and no one has ever gotten the correct solution immediately (unless they've heard it before).

Stephen Shapiro · 29 April 2025

Leadership1 min read

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