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A Little Box of Awesome

In a world moving too fast to enable us to really savor the moment, and to know just what to experience, along comes a fun concept in curated self-indulgence.

Gabor George Burt · 29 April 2025

A Holistic Approach is Effective

Solving the corporate innovation challenges (see graph above) requires you to take a holistic approach.

Marc Sniukas · 29 April 2025

A Gale Force Wind

the only person who created an airline that made money was an attorney, Herb Kelleher, by founding Southwest.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

A Ford car with Ketchup on the side

The Accordion Chart is a visual method that enables you to explore the market spaces your organization currently resides in and should look to occupy.

Gabor George Burt · 29 April 2025

A Federal Reserve Primer and Why You Don’t Need to Worry About Interest Rates Today

The Fed was originally created barely 100 years ago (1913) to try to create a more stable monetary system. But this didn’t work too well in the beginning, which led to the Great Depression.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

A Drunk Can Spoil the Party

Media is now losing money, and forced to make debt payments, while its primary competitors (the Murdoch-controlled Sky and British Telecom) are in far healthier financial shape.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

A Company re-imagined to create Joy

The Mondelēz name, adopted in 2012, came from the input of Kraft Foods employees at the time,

Gabor George Burt · 29 April 2025

A Christmas Carole 2015 – the Ebenezer 1% and Cratchit Middle Class

Mr. Scrooge’s former partner, Mr. Jakob Marley, visits Mr. Scrooge in a dream and reminds him that, in fact, there was a lot more to his life, and wealth creation, than just Ebenezer’s toils.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

A Cell Phone from Antiquity

Gabor George Burt · 29 April 2025

A Call to Action for Better Board Governance of Strategy

The report pulls no punches in its strong recommendations for changing the Board’s involvement in strategy

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

A CEO’s Guide To Innovation

Cris Beswick · 29 April 2025

A Blog and Book to Consider

The book is a great read as well. Not pompous (although the author has a mountain of experience to draw upon), very matter-of-fact, and incisive when cutting into multiple myths that detract from performance of functional groups as well as the corporation overall.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

A Bitcoin is Worth $4,000–why You Probably Should Not Own One

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

A Bitcoin Is Worth $4,000--Why You Probably Should Not Own One

Bitcoins are a crypto-currency. That means they can be used like a currency, but don't physically exist like dollar bills.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

A Bag Of Chips That Cares About Your Safety

Doritos might have crashed out of the Super Bowl after a decade of fun ads, but Frito-Lay still has a few party tricks up its sleeve for this year’s big game.

Gabor George Burt · 29 April 2025

A $7.6b Write-off Plus Layoffs is Never a Good Sign Microsoft

Microsoft had failed to build any sort of developer community for Windows 8 mobile.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

A $2.4 Billion Lesson All Innovators Should Heed

What can we learn from this? Being different is not the same as being differentiated.

Stephen Shapiro · 29 April 2025

9 Signs Your Industry Is About To Be Disrupted

‘Disrupted = your industry is part of a @CBInsights chart. Dead but don’t know it = mgmt response is “We have a corporate accelerator.”’

Cris Beswick · 29 April 2025

7 Steps To Achieve Innovation in Business

The challenge most MDs and CEOs face is how to create a company with an entrepreneurial and innovative culture.

Cris Beswick · 29 April 2025

6 brands that may not make it through 2015

The writing is on the wall.

Gabor George Burt · 29 April 2025

6 Best Apps for Business on the Go

Flipboard is a simple personalized news app that keeps you on top of the latest stories.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

5 Things Your Suitcase Needs on Your Next Business Trip

In a previous article I shared four free hacks to increase your comfort while on the road. But sometimes the best things in life aren't free. Here are five items I never leave home without when I travel for work.

Stephen Shapiro · 29 April 2025

5 Steps to Guarantee Your App's Success

Offer interns an opportunity to review the product or service you have created so they have a foundational understanding.

Teresa Spangler · 29 April 2025

5 Reasons You Should Not Buy Gm Stock – General Motors

GM hit a growth stall in the 1970s. Since then the company has steadily lost market share while watching profitability deteriorate to nothing.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025