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Practice3 min read

Find Better Solutions to Your Challenges, Use This Eye-Opening Technique

Our past experiences blind us to potentially new and different opportunities in the future.

Stephen Shapiro · 29 April 2025

Leadership2 min read

Financial Machinations

The only reason to undertake such an action is to protect the existing Success Formula. In IBM’s case the company’s most recent earnings announcement (last week) saw earnings increase in North America only 1%.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Leadership4 min read

Financial Machination to Hide Poor Performance – Pfizer

Pfizer is planning a mega- acquisition by purchasing Wyeth (chart here) for some $65B (read article here). That's about 3 times revenue for a company growing at less than 10%/year.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Leadership5 min read

Fighting Trends is Expensive – Coke and Mcdonald’s

The open question now, for patient investors with a multi-year focus, is whether either, or both, companies are going to go back to long-term valuation growth (meaning they are a buy) or if their value has fizzled (meaning they are a sell)?

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Leadership3 min read

Fearing Cannibalization Versus White Space

Fear of cannibalization caused him to avoid new innovations which would grow total demand, and considerably grow the revenues of his fledgling movie business.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Innovation3 min read

Far Too Little, Far Too Late – Rim Playbook

RIM's Playbook fails to compete with Apple's iPad due to its limited app base and outdated focus, leaving it behind as market trends shift.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Innovation3 min read

False Paradox – Using the Old to Justify Not Doing the New – Microsoft, Ipad

Microsoft's issue isn't a paradox but a failure to balance growth and sustaining innovation. Unlike others embracing new tech, Microsoft stuck to outdated markets.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Leadership2 min read

Falling Off the Cliff

The pressure became so great Howard was forced to go from public radio (called terrestrial radio now) to pay radio (called satellite radio.)

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Leadership2 min read

Fake-out

the company has not Disrupted any of its old Lock-ins. They have not admitted that the Success Formula is outdated, and they have not attacked any of the Lock-ins keeping the company doing what it has always done.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Leadership3 min read

Fake Growth

The signs of a good acquisition are when the buyer says (a) this will change our way of doing business (b) we will operate this in a seperate environment so it can develop its own market approach (c) we will monitor progress and look to adopt learning from this new acquisition in our existing business.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Leadership4 min read

Fait Accompli

The CEO, who over the last few years has watched the company lose market share, see it’s share price drop to a 54 year low (chart here), sold off many of the most valuable remaining assets (like GMAC) and overseen write-offs that exceed the entire market value of the firm is not responsible??

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025