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Stay Creative, Stay Shooting

The reason I always keep my gear close to me is i often shoot stuff for myself

Michael O'Toole · 29 April 2025

Status Quo Police – Innovation Killers

To foster innovation, leaders must challenge those who enforce outdated practices and support new ideas rather than relying on traditional rules and metrics.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Start Early! Waiting is Expensive – Amazon V. Microsoft

The Wall Street Journal calls for a shift from outdated management models to more agile, market-responsive approaches to stay competitive in today’s fast-paced environment.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Starbuck’s Big Experiment

How are they able to do this when other companies struggle with even small innovations? I think there are three key elements.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

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

Starbucks Re-Imagined

Starbucks has opened its first new type of space designed to deliver an immersive, high-end coffee indulgence experience.

Gabor George Burt · 29 April 2025

Starbucks Closing Teavana Is a Long-Term Troubling Sign for Investors

Starbucks founding CEO Howard Schultz returned to the top job in January, 2008, promising to get out of distractions such as music production, movie production, internet sales, grocery products, liquor products and even in-store food sales in order to return the company to its "core" coffee business

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Stand Up, Stand Out

hang on, haven’t we just described the essential elements of a Next Generation Innovation Culture?

Cris Beswick · 29 April 2025

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

Sporting Disruptions

ESPN has profitably grown by staying in the Rapids, rather than resting on it’s original Success Formula to provide sports news over cable TV.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Spicy Growth

McDonald’s is horribly Locked-in. Leadership doesn’t understand how to Disrupt that Lock-in in order to move the company from the Swamp back into the Rapids.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

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

Speaking at TEDx Verona

The theme of the event is ‘Beyond the Wall’ which is provocatively connected to my central topic of ‘Re-Imagining Boundaries’.

Gabor George Burt · 29 April 2025

Space travel: Another unmovable barrier debunked

Gabor George Burt · 29 April 2025

Space Age Piano

The result is the newly introduced Boganyi piano, which reshapes both the experience of playing and listening to this classical instrument.

Gabor George Burt · 29 April 2025

Southwest Airlines in Trouble?

SWA is a great example of a company that started with a radically different Success Formula that won big in the marketplace, and they’ve certainly made it better over the years.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Sour Lemons, or Lemonade? – Playboy, Singer

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

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Sounds Good, but Really….

Tribune hiring a Chief Innovation Officer sounds promising, but without Disruption and White Space, it's unlikely to succeed.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Sorry Thomas Edison, but It's Ecosystems, Not Inventions that Truly Change the World

In 1882, just three years after he had almost literally shocked the world with his electric light bulb, Thomas Edison opened his Pearl Street Station, the first commercial electrical distribution plant in the United States.

Greg Satell · 29 April 2025

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

HP was dying before Whitman arrived

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Sometimes you can’t make it on your own

Leonard teases out different kinds of Mastery and you will have to read it to find out which type you are. Having experienced many masters at work ,

Michael O'Toole · 29 April 2025

Sometimes Your Seemingly Great Ideas Can Lead to Terrible Results

The key, of course, is to make sure that people are aware they are in a pickpocket area.

Stephen Shapiro · 29 April 2025

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

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