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Ahh..the Power of White Space
Innovation2 min read

Ahh..the Power of White Space

Virgin is like Apple in this regard as well. From a recording company Virgin is now an airline, a retailer, and a cell phone company.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Afghanistan’s Fall Was Foreseeable
Strategy4 min read

Afghanistan’s Fall Was Foreseeable

The only way you can remain vital is to constantly grow. You have to keep up with economic growth (3%/yr) and overall inflation (3%/year) just to remain even – without any return to shareholders.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Addressing Challenges
Innovation2 min read

Addressing Challenges

Walgreens, despite market changes and fierce competition, has avoided a growth stall by embracing White Space projects like in-store clinics and digital services

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Act to Meet Challenges, Not Defend the Past – Microsoft
Leadership3 min read

Act to Meet Challenges, Not Defend the Past – Microsoft

The Vista launch was a disaster. A joke. Techies resoundingly ignored the product – as did their employers. Because Vista was so weak, Microsoft is looking to launch yet another operating system – just 2 years after Vista was launched.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Acquiring Right
Innovation1 min read

Acquiring Right

Viola – in a master stroke the new Chairman of the 200 year old exchange has acted to revitalize the NYSE by buying Archipelago.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

A Tale of Two Turnarounds
Innovation2 min read

A Tale of Two Turnarounds

Last January (2004) Motorola undertook a pattern interrupt and launched a host of new white space initiatives.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

A Tale of 2 Charts – Aol and Apple
Technology2 min read

A Tale of 2 Charts – Aol and Apple

Apple has only about 2% market share in mobile phones. On the one hand, this could appear nearly immaterial. But if we look at usage, we see a very different story

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

A Stumbling Giant
Innovation2 min read

A Stumbling Giant

Lots of companies do what Microsoft is doing. During the heyday, high growth environment for PCs, from the 1980s through the 1990s, Microsoft developed a Success Formula

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

A Step Beyond – with Tony Paulstain
Culture1 min read

A Step Beyond – with Tony Paulstain

The program is broadcast through the iHeartRadio network, and is a companion to Tony’s recently released book ‘A Quarter Million Steps’.

Gabor George Burt · 29 April 2025

A Place to Grow
Leadership3 min read

A Place to Grow

the globe is no longer dominated by an industrial economy. Fewer and fewer people are employed in industrial production.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

A New Life for Napster?
Leadership2 min read

A New Life for Napster?

One of the basic tenets of the Phoenix Principle is “be distinct or be extinct,” and Napster is not yet distinct.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025