CEO / Managing Partner - Spark Partners
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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American GDP was going nowhere as Japanese producers looked like they were quickly taking over global manufacturing as well as demonstrating superior quality in a wide range of products.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
The federal government is pretty well Locked-in. Not only does it have the behavioral Lock-ins of a large bureaucracy, but it creates laws when designing its structure and decision-making processes.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
eBay was a pioneer. From humble beginnings selling Pez dispensers
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Global, instant, and free communication accelerates innovation, making it crucial for companies to embrace disruptions to stay ahead of rapidly adapting competitors.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Blockbuster Video is in big trouble. Most analysts think the company is going to file bankruptcy – unlikely to survive – with a mere $.30 stock price today.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
The audience reacted with a positive roar! These managers all saw the benefit of having a low-price workstation line to augment their expensive servers.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
The lesson here is to be prepared for change! Don’t build your plans just on the past – past products and customers. Instead, look hard at trends and build scenarios for the future based on trends.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
The Wall Street Journal reported that there was a lot of Board discourse about CEO Dimon’s pay package.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Bernie Ebbers is nothing more than another manager who fell victim to Defending and Extending a broken Success Formula.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Troubled organizations like those late in their lifecycle don’t haveany excess capacity.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
The early stages of change look just like this. A market shifting Challenge looks exactly like the 78th Academy Awards.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Wal-Mart is horribly Locked-in to its old ways, and unwilling to use White Space to create a new Success Formula.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
The new politicians are considerably left of center by U.S. standards, a dramatic shift. "Calls for Fast Action after Historic Vote" is the Yahoo! News headline.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
The airlines like to blame the 9-11 tragedy for their troubles, but their problems were in place years earlier.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Dell's focus on execution over innovation led to its decline, making privatization a last-ditch effort to save the company amid a market shift to mobile and cloud services.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
"Dell is not a fun place to work, and it’s less fun now than it used to be."
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Vornado has acquired a 1.2% stake in McDonald’s
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Why would any music retailer think this is a good idea? Because he’s trying to find a way to Defend & Extend the Success Formula he built when music sales required a physical product.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
The outcome isn't pretty. Yet, we still have lots of leaders trying to Defend & Extend their business with techniques that are detrimental to customers.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
The latter about a decade. Which is the company you should work for, or invest in?
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Microsoft is too focused on its core business to do new things correctly.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
The Harvard Business Review web site describes the mismatch between BP's claim of heading in a new direction versus company reality in "The BP Brand's Avoidable Fall.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
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