In a new article featured in the June Harvard Business Review, I offer a summary of my new book. Essentially, that strategy is stuck! We've locked ourselves into a view of strategy that depends on… Read more »
Archives for May 2013
What does Tumblr bring to Yahoo?
A few folks have been asking me what I think about this acquisition. I actually think it makes a lot of sense – relative to what Facebook spent to capture users ($30/user) or what Google… Read more »
Interview with Dorie Clark in Forbes
May 16, 2013Interview at Forbes with Dorie Clark (author of The Brand of You) in Forbes on-line. The basic idea behind the article is that we need a different way of thinking about strategy when… Read more »
A requiem for Competitive Advantage - Forbes Interview by Dorie Clark
Last month, I was invited to give a talk at the National Association of Broadcasters on the core theme of my new book. While there, I met the smart and savvy Dorie Clark, who did… Read more »
A requiem for Competitive Advantage – Forbes Interview by Dorie Clark
Last month, I was invited to give a talk at the National Association of Broadcasters on the core theme of my new book. While there, I met the smart and savvy Dorie Clark, who did… Read more »
The perils of being a publicly traded firm
Over at my blog on the HBR site, you'll find some commentary on how difficult it is to cope with the constant changes necessary to be adaptive in a fast-moving economy under the glare of… Read more »
Broadcasters on the brink? Why skyrocketing media pay should be a red flag.
On my blog at HBR, I observed that the business model for broadcasting is showing some cracks and that a new one is likely to emerge. Interestingly, a recent New York Times article points out… Read more »
The Hourglass Economy and the Fate of J. C. Penney’s
This month, I've been doing a lot of thinking about the consequences of what some have termed the "hourglass" economy, in which there is growth at the low end of the income spectrum (a boon… Read more »