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June 13, 2023

NPV doesn’t work for risky, high-potential projects. Here’s a better approach.

This article was co-authored with Claus Hirzmann of Strategic Finance “Never test the depth of the river with both feet.” Ironically, this is the very behavior that plagues many of the innovations that ended up in… Read more »

Filed Under: Articles, Business Start Ups / Entrepreneurship, Business Strategy, Innovation, Insights and ideas, Leadership, Thought Sparks

June 6, 2023

Can’t Buy Me Growth…A Cautionary Tale

This article was co-authored with Alex Van Putten of Cameron & Associates We’ve been talking about what gets investors excited about a public company’s prospects and maintain that it’s when a management team can credibly… Read more »

Filed Under: Articles, Business Start Ups / Entrepreneurship, Business Strategy, Innovation, Insights and ideas, Leadership, Thought Sparks

June 1, 2023

Thought Sparks Wrap Up – May 2023

Uncertainty has a way of messing with people, and we sure saw much of that in May.  With layoffs, trimmed budgets, and lumbering threats like the US approaching the debt ceiling, our innovation colleagues are… Read more »

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May 30, 2023

Are you boring your Investors? Here’s how to tell.

This article was co-authored with Alex Van Putten of Cameron & Associates It isn’t hunger for short-term results. It’s not about meeting every number. It’s not about never being surprised. What investors really want is to… Read more »

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May 23, 2023

Blast from the past – how companies behaved in 2008 is how a lot of them are behaving now

In October of 2008, I wrote about a company that had a reputation as a paragon of good management that was its own worst enemy when it came to sustainable efforts to innovate and transform…. Read more »

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May 17, 2023

Assumptions are treacherous – just ask Lululemon about Mirror

In high uncertainty situations, one can obviously make decisions that turn out not to be so great. But seriously, do you want to be the CEO featured in a headline “How A Ballerina Outmaneuvered you”?… Read more »

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May 10, 2023

Thought Sparks Wrap Up – April 2023

Reflecting this month on a spate of bad news, and how CEOs and other humans tend to react.  The good news is that bad news mobilizes us.  The bad news is that we can get… Read more »

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April 13, 2023

Thought Sparks Wrap Up – March 2023

Yes, we are well into 2023 and if we’re going to make an impact, now is the time to get started.  Considering that it takes 3-6 months to get anything accomplished, you should be starting… Read more »

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March 8, 2023

Thought Sparks Wrap Up – February 2023

Yes, we are already staring down at the end of the first quarter.  We’re back in person, back in airports, back at conferences, but … back to the office?  The jury is still out. In case… Read more »

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February 9, 2023

Thought Sparks Wrap Up – January 2023

An antidote to bureaucracy?  Perhaps 2023 becomes the year that more organizations take advantage of technology to create what my co-author Ram Charan and I call the Permissionless Organization.  By using technology to get the outcomes… Read more »

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January 19, 2023

2022 in the Rear-View Mirror!-Yearly Round Up

Ideas – Thought Sparks  Rebuilding Ukraine – huge risks, but potentially huge opportunities. Remembering the extraordinary Frances Hesselbein. How can you tell when a competitive advantage is going into erosion?  One of my most requested articles (and a… Read more »

Filed Under: Articles, Business Start Ups / Entrepreneurship, Business Strategy, Innovation, Insights and ideas, Leadership, Thought Sparks

January 18, 2023

Hollywood, Streaming and the Decline of the Hit Driven Business Model

People have been predicting the end of Hollywood as we know it for a long time.  Talking pictures were first dismissed as a novelty, then eventually embraced.  Television proved destabilizing for the studio system that … Read more »

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