Innovation2 min read
Ripe and Rotting
D&E management is a way of responding to marketplace challenges that enables companies to keep doing what they’ve always done
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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Leadership2 min read
Richard Branson’s 4 Secrets to Business Success Vs Top 10 Management Myths – Virgin
Business if full of myth. And we now know that many gurus have been recommending actions for years that simply haven’t produce long-term positive results.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership2 min read
Retirement in the Age of Creative Destruction
America largely depends upon private retirement.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Investment1 min read
Retail transformation continues and will impact your portfolio
The trend is unmistakable, and undeniable.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Future3 min read
Resolve to Focus on Goals Rather Than Results in 2015
In the 1981 Burt Reynolds’ movie “Cannonball Run” a character begins a trans-country auto race by ripping the rear view mirror from his car and throwing it out the window.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership6 min read
Resign Shinseki – Relying on Statistics is Lazy Leadership
America is learning that its military veterans have been ineffectively served by the Veterans Administration (VA) hospital system.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Innovation2 min read
Reshaping the power grid – the tesla way
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Innovation3 min read
Reports of facebook’s death are greatly exaggerated (paraphrasing mark twain)
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership3 min read
Report: Boards Should Re-apply Focus on Long-term Value Creation
“The Commission believes that directors need to be active students of the business,
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership6 min read
Relative Risk
The traffic cruises at 65 miles per hour, but since I’m always late I drive 75. On a particularly late day I drive 80. Because I usually drive 75, the relative risk seems small.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership4 min read
Regulations Work – Applaud Sox and Dodd- Frank
the makeup of Boards is changing, for the betterment of investors
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership2 min read
Refusing to Evolve Leads to Failure – Sun Microsystems
The market shifted. First it's biggest buyers, telecom companies, fell into a depression early in the century. And corporate buyers struggled to maintain old IT budgets, increasingly transfering work offshore and demanding lots more performance at lower prices.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership4 min read
Reducing Solution Options
The USA has been dominated by the conservative economic agenda since the landslide victory of Ronald Reagan.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership1 min read
Record Machinations
In May and June IBM, WalMart and Home Depot announced share buyback plans of $50Billion
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership3 min read
Recognizing Lock-in – Be Worried About Dell
The Forbes writer made the big mistake of measuring Dell by looking at its past – and glorifying its focus. But this points out that Dell is really very vulnerable.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Innovation3 min read
Rearranging Deck Chairs on the Titanic – Microsoft, Apple, Sony, Nintendo
Microsoft's entertainment division struggles under outdated management, failing to compete with rivals like Apple and Google. Leadership changes may be too late
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Innovation2 min read
Real White Space
Microsoft and Intel's university research investments create flexible, well-funded White Space for innovative computing solutions.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership5 min read
Reading the Telltale Signs
good sailors pay attention to the behavior of these ribbons so they can interpret the wind and achieve their destination more quickly.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership2 min read
Reading Tea Leaves
innovation has been slack at DuPont for quite a few years. They haven’t brought forward one of those great products for a long time.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Innovation4 min read
Reading All the Headlines
Confirmation bias blinds us to new opportunities, making it crucial to consider innovations across industries.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Innovation3 min read
Reacting to Downturns – Honda Vs. Gm
Honda's new CEO, with an R&D background, emphasizes innovation to address market shifts, unlike GM's approach of sticking to old methods and leadership.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Innovation1 min read
Re: Dancing Elephants
IBM is taking actions to continue sustaining its success. The stock might be volatile, both up and down, along the way.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership4 min read
Rather Fail Than Change
the employees have taken to wearing plastic bracelets that say "Glenn’s Gotta Go" referring to a dismissal of the CEO (read article here.) And management is taking the tack that these employees are out of line with this behavior.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership2 min read
Racing to the Exit
The result was a negative impact on Jaguar and Land Rover, as the old Ford Success Formula drove down the value of these brands.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
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