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Lock-in Limits Thinking

Nuclear power is returning in the U.S. after past failures, driven by high fossil fuel costs.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Live or Die on Transitions – Tivo, Blockbuster, Sgi, Dec, Palm, Cisco

the inherent assumption that Tivo can be in only one market is flawed. There is nothing stopping Tivo from participating in the marketplace robustly with mutliple solution offerings.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Listening to Competition – Healthcare

The beauty of medical tourism is it provides a marketplace mechanism for those things to happen

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Listen to Those Who Don’t Love You

Listening to your biggest, and your best, customers is important, but you won’t learn much about the market.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Listen to Employees When Evaluating Leadership

Employees can see when something bad is impending, likely jeopardizing their livelihoods, and start talking about it.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Listen to Competitors Rather Than Customers – Google, Ibm, Tribune, Cisco

Listening to competitors, not customers, fuels innovation. Google and Apple thrived by watching rivals, not clients.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Lipstick on a Pig

Sears is still Defending and Extending two completely broken Success Formulas.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Like the Best Tech Companies, Publicis Launches a Great Strategic Pivot

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Like a Virgin

This all got my attention recently because Virgin America will be going into service soon, carrying air passengers across the U.S. (See full article in CIO Magazine here.)

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Like Sun Micro, the Nyt Inflicted Fatal Wounds in the 1990s

The Boston Globe recently reported in "What Went Wrong?" that same year the founder of Monster offered to sell a chunk of his new company to the Globe (which is owned by NYT) for $1million.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Like Sbarro, Will You Be the Next Domino to Fall?

Planning should be about understanding trends and developing future scenarios.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Like Lemmings

The argument typically goes along the lines that management could do many exciting and strategic things if it wasn’t for those pesky investors who want a consistent return on their equity.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Lifecycle Reality – Google, Telstra, Gm

the vast majority of businesses contribute no new jobs. In fact, they are reducing employment.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Let’s Go Freeriding

The Let’s Go Freeriding summit took place in Obergurgl, Austria, bringing together a group of 25 accomplished entrepreneurs and future shapers

Gabor George Burt · 29 April 2025

Letting the Bogeyman Hurt Your Business – Facebook, Twitter, Linked-in, Plaxo

Companies blocking social networks miss out on productivity gains and insights. Embrace new tools for business success.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Let's Settle the Debate — Innovation Both Is & Is Not Everyone's Job

There's an insidious debate that's bounced around for probably the better part of twenty years now.

Anthony Mills · 29 April 2025

Let Sears Go! No Subsidies, and Sell the Stock. Invest in Groupon

The article argues against using subsidies to keep Sears in Illinois, suggesting instead that funds should be invested in promising startups like Groupon.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Less snake oil, more thought leadership please

snake oil salesman had to trundle his cart from town to town

Cris Beswick · 29 April 2025

Learning the Right Lessons – Saturn and Gm — and Harvard By Adam Hartung, 05 October, 2009

The Success Formula at Chevrolet and the other GM divisions had been created in the 1950s when GM dominated the industry.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Lean is Dead. Long Live Lean!

Twenty four years ago, James Womack, Daniel Jones, and Daniel Roos introduced our world to a modern understanding of the concept of Lean Production.

Anthony Mills · 29 April 2025

Leading with an innovation mindset

“inquisitiveness is the key ingredient to driving innovation

Cris Beswick · 29 April 2025

Leading with Humor

Gabor George Burt · 29 April 2025

Leading innovation, where do you go from here

Christmas has been and gone, you’ve managed to survive the end of the year accounting period and New Year resolutions have had time to bed in.

Cris Beswick · 29 April 2025

Leading The Way Towards Innovation

The truth is that even as we like to think of ourselves as having free will, there is something strangely comforting about having the decision taken away from us

Cris Beswick · 29 April 2025