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You Want to Be Optimistic

The company lost about 1/3 of its value in a day – and over about 6 months the company lost half its value.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

You Should Love, and Buy, Netflix – the Next Apple or Google

Leaders who focus solely on optimizing their core business often miss market shifts, as shown by Motorola’s decline and Netflix’s success in transitioning from DVD rentals to digital streaming.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

You Really Wouldn’t Consider Buying That, Would You? Ford New Stock Offering

Ford is a company in the Whirlpool. It's odds of surviving are low. It's odds of making high rates of return and being globally competitive are almost nonexistent.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

You Have to Change to Grow – Including Starbucks

The government doesn't create growth. It can stimulate growth with low interest rates and money that will stimulate business investment.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

You Gotta Worry When… – Google, Microsoft

Microsoft has 2 product lines that make up almost all its sales and profits. Operating systems for PCs (Windows 7) and office automation software for businesses (Office 2010).

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

You Gotta Move Beyond Your “base” – Expand Beyond Your “brand”

"The trouble with brands," brand value isn't what it was cracked up to be. Using a boatload of data, this academic tome says that brand

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

You Gotta Have a Target

businesses no longer have some extended lifetime where they can sit back and "clip the coupons" as they rake in the cash.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

You Gotta Do It Right

WalMart desperately needs to change. But to do that the company needs to implement White Space. It needs to first own up to its Challenges.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

You Can't Improve EQ But You Can Improve Feeling Intelligence

The term first appeared in a research paper published in 1964 by Michael Beldoch and then in the 1966 paper by B. Leuner entitled "Emotional intelligence and Emancipation."

Justin James Kennedy · 29 April 2025

You Can See It Coming

The leadership did everything possible to goose up cash flow at the end of the last year in order to maximize bonuses and attract a buyer for the company.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Yet more coverage in the Dominican Press

Gabor George Burt · 29 April 2025

Yes, You Should Buy Apple

Apple's skill in identifying unmet needs, expanding markets, and launching products quickly makes it a high-potential, low-risk investment.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Yes, It Would Be Nice to See Steve Jobs Run Gm (or Ford or Chrysler)

GM needs disruptive leadership like Steve Jobs to innovate and break free from outdated practices.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Yes, Even You Can Innovate to Grow – Learn From Skanska

Innovation isn't just for tech companies; Skanska's success shows even traditional industries can thrive with new ideas.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Yes Amr, Bankruptcy is Failure

The reaction was less about AMR, which is having a first-time filing, and more about airline bankruptcies overall.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Yahoo – Another Disappearing Giant Has Nowhere to Hide

Yahoo today is valued at about $46B.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Wrong Assumptions Create Lousy Outcomes – Sony, Mcdonald’s, Radio Shack, Sears

The output of that training has been a movement toward focusing on accounting, finance, cost management, supply chain management, automation — all things operational

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Would You Do It, if You Had the Chance?

Imagine you were offered a job in 1998 to work at Google. Would you have been able to project the company could be a $10billion revenue company in 10 years?

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Would You Believe?

The consensus is that GM can now refocus on products, and regain lost share.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

World Happiness Report 2019 - What It SHOULD Measure

Gabor George Burt · 29 April 2025

Working Within Permission

Success requires understanding what you can do, not just what you want to do.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Work After COVID-19

The hope is that these interviews will provide an invaluable understanding of the impact Covid-19 crisis has had on organizational wellbeing.

Justin James Kennedy · 29 April 2025

Women Business Builders

The Phoenix Principle is based on an assumption that the owners/managers of a business are in it for the long-term.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

With Marty Cooper, whose invention changed the world

Gabor George Burt · 29 April 2025