Leadership2 min read
Transitions Are Tough
HP is going to redirect what it sells and how it sells it.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
CEO / Managing Partner - Spark Partners
Adam Hartung
I currently serve as the CEO of three companies: Content Laboratory (a content services company,) Spark Partners (a growth strategy firm offering assessments, strategy consulting and on-line self-administered revenue growth tools,) and Soparfilm Energy (an oil & gas exploration & production investment company.) Over the last thirty years, I have served on multiple boards, including Audit Chair for a NASDAQ traded company, and advised boards of directors on managing for disruptions and promoting innovation into corporate management.
My passion is public speaking on the importance of growth, innovation and strategy to succeed. As a keynote speaker I have been invited to over 1,000 leadership events, both multi-company and single company. My portfolio includes speeches, presentations, workshops and executive coaching on how to achieve faster growth from higher levels of innovation driven by trends.
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Practice6 min read
Toys R Us - How Bad Assumptions Fed Bad Financial Planning Creating Failure
The biggest assumption behind a debt-financed takeover is that the company can cut costs to improve cash flow and thus pay the interest.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership3 min read
Tough Week in White Space
Mr. Zander approved a quick $4.5billion stock buyback. And now he’s agreed to an even larger $7.5 billion buyback
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership6 min read
Toubled Leadership
The Tribune Corp needed a big dose of internal Disruption, and plenty of White Space to figure out where advertisers were going and how to appeal to them.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership9 min read
Top 6 Reasons Projects Fail – 8 Steps to Avoid the Failures!
The approach to project management since the 1960s has been the same.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Technology1 min read
Top 10 Vendor Lies – Cio and Network World Magazines
This is extremely true in IT, where product lifecycles are often very short
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership5 min read
Too Locked-in to Learn
The problem lies in management. It’s hard to find a more Locked-in administrator than the one in your local school.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Strategy1 min read
Too Big to Learn?
Now, more than at any previous time, WalMart needs to find new ways to grow
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership1 min read
Too Big to Fail? Risk and Protection in Shifting Markets – Lehman, Bank of America, Merrill Lynch, Citibank
The exact same failing brought down Wall Street, Detroit and Main Street's real estate speculators.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership6 min read
Too Big to Fail? Overcoming Size Disadvantages – Jpmorgan Chase
The author is an esteemed economics professor at NYU. He says "too big to fail is dangerous.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Future1 min read
To Succeed Accelerate Into the Future – Or Become Obsolete C2
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership6 min read
To Grow in 2011 Plan Like Virgin, Apple and Google
The next step for most planners is to attempt extending the business into something adjacent.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Strategy3 min read
To Find the Right Trends use Scenario Planning
Risk Management- Probability vs. Impact
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership4 min read
Time to Get Serious About Change – Gm’s Bailout Negotiations
The negotiations are focusing on whether GM can be competitive. But, unfortunately, GM seems to be directing that discussion toward cost reductions
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership3 min read
Time of Year Many Forecast – but Scenario Planning is What’s Needed
forecasting doesn't help managers much at all – unless we can expect things in the future to be mostly like the past. And after 2008 – who would think that's very likely?
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Technology7 min read
Tim Cook’s ‘ballmer-ization’ of Apple
Today’s Apple – the one today’s analysts love – is all about making and selling more iPhones.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership3 min read
Tides Vs. Tsunamis
Improvement is always just around the corner from China expansion, investments in lower-cost distribution, and store extensions.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Innovation5 min read
Throw Away That Slide Rule! Use Facebook, Iphones, Ipads and Groupon
Sticking to outdated methods risks falling behind; adopting new technologies and platforms is crucial for staying competitive.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership3 min read
Three Leadership Lessons From Tree Climbing Goats
No. You’re not seeing things. These are goats in trees.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership7 min read
Those Who Lead (Zebra Tech) and Those Who Abdicate (Motorola)
The CEO’s team spent a lot of time refining the message, to be clear about the benefits of this transaction.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Strategy7 min read
This Christmas People Matter — for Buying Ads as Well as Gifts
Marketers clearly understood that customers knew the product paid for those ads to promote that content.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Innovation5 min read
Think Young! Be Like Cisco, Netflix and Amazon.com!
A trio of economists just published "Who Creates Jobs? Small vs. Large vs. Young" at the National Bureau of Economic Research.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Innovation2 min read
They’re Doing What?
Honda eschewed the commonly held notions of "core market" and "core customer".
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership5 min read
They Weren’t Stupid – So What Next?
The management at Motorola is filled with very bright, hard working people. Most of them have been quite successful inside Motorola or from outside and recruited in.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
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