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May 21, 2019

Big Food and the Revolution in the Ingredients Business

The rules of the game used to be pretty simple for large food companies: Make massive quantities of tasty and inexpensive (if not particularly nutritious) food products, create memorable brands around them, and use their… Read more »

Filed Under: Insights and ideas, Thought Sparks

May 10, 2019

How to Stop Making Assumptions—and Start Seeing Around Corners

Last month, I was thrilled to attend Parliament’s PowerShift, a gathering of diverse opinion leaders, change-makers, creatives, and corporates seeking to find interesting solutions to some of today’s biggest challenges. At the event, I had… Read more »

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April 16, 2019

Let’s Go Back to Boring Banking

After the Great Depression and through the 1980s, the financial sector was regulated to serve the rest of the economy. Today, it serves mostly itself. It’s time that changed.  When even Larry Fink is talking… Read more »

Filed Under: Insights and ideas, Thought Sparks

April 11, 2019

Taking a Human-Led Approach to Navigating Technological Change

With technology’s modern pace of change, how can companies (and humans) best adapt? In March, I had the pleasure of leading a workshop with Tracey Zimmerman, President of Robots & Pencils, to answer this very… Read more »

Filed Under: Innovation, Insights and ideas

March 13, 2019

Final Thoughts From BRITE 2019

After beginning the day with talks on competition, social robots, and attention, and then learning about the power of simplicity, the banking industry’s existential crisis, and why machine learning is not vibranium, we wrapped up… Read more »

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March 10, 2019

Machine Learning Is Not Vibranium (and Other Takeaways from BRITE 2019)

After a stimulating start to the conference, BRITE 2019 continued with a series of fascinating presentations that demonstrated the power of simplicity, reimagined the future of banking, and debunked some major myths around artificial intelligence… Read more »

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March 7, 2019

3 Takeaways From BRITE 2019

There were some very stimulating and fascinating presentations at the Brand Innovation Technology Conference (BRITE), held at Columbia Business School on March 4, 2019. Here are just a few of the event’s major highlights and… Read more »

Filed Under: Insights and ideas

February 19, 2019

Netflix and the Battle for Your Disposable Time

In my forthcoming book, Seeing Around Corners (now available for pre-order wherever you buy books), one of the major themes is that a major blind spot for organizations is that they tend to see the… Read more »

Filed Under: Insights and ideas, Thought Sparks

February 9, 2019

When Hierarchy Is Not an Option: A New Organizational Model for Fast-Moving Contexts

Earlier this month, I spoke at the Human Resources Directors Conference in the United Kingdom. At the conference, I shared some material excerpted from my forthcoming book, Seeing Around Corners: How to Spot Inflection Points… Read more »

Filed Under: Business Strategy, Insights and ideas, Thought Sparks

February 6, 2019

10 Ways to Prepare for Career Changes in the Transient Advantage Economy

In the world of strategy, there’s been a long-held belief in a sustainable competitive advantage—you find an attractive place in an attractive industry, throw up entry barriers, and exploit the advantage for a long period… Read more »

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January 22, 2019

How to Lead an Organization Through an Inflection Point

I was recently at a conference with Curt Carlson, a brilliant leader of innovation who for many years ran SRI, the research organization responsible for the invention of Apple’s Siri and many other multi-billion dollar… Read more »

Filed Under: Business Strategy, Insights and ideas, Thought Sparks

October 1, 2016

Preparing for the 8th Annual Drucker Forum

A few years ago, I started attending the Global Peter Drucker Forum, which has become a real who’s who of management conferences.  It takes place each November in Vienna and features luminaries and thought leaders… Read more »

Filed Under: Business Start Ups / Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Insights and ideas

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