“Disruption”: Dumb Luck or Deep Understanding?
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWe often think of “disruption” as belonging to the realm of startups or big, but innovative and relatively young companies like Google or Apple. Is it luck…is it art… or is it science?. One really old, really large company that makes many products you use every day knows that disruption
From Leather to Electronics – What Can We Learn from Radio Shack?
Reading Time: < 1 minuteMost people alive today would have trouble remembering when there wasn’t a local Radio Shack store. For years, it was synonymous with things electronic. This past week it filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy with most if of its brick and mortar assets probably destined to be resurrected as Sprint Stores.
From the Brink of Extinction to Winner: Are there Lessons for Your Company?
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWe celebrate comebacks, like so many other events, because they are rare. These stories are valuable because, as John Henry Newman observed over 100 years ago, “history offers lessons, not rules.” A turnaround for the times is a company that came back from the brink of oblivion to a level
TV – Version 3.0
Reading Time: < 1 minutePhones went from calls that required operator assistance to the ones in our pockets…..computers went from “big iron” to the devices in front of us, that thanks to Moore’s law, double in power every 18 months. TV went from rabbit ears to cable to what technology watcher Robert X. Cringely (former
Driving Miss Daisy (and everyone else)
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe wonderful film “Driving Miss Daisy” portrayed an aging wealthy widow who could afford to hire a chauffeur to drive her when she no longer could. The driverless car touted by Google and others will make it possible for all of us to have chauffeurs when we no longer can (or
Getting Better at Getting Better – a/k/a Continuous Improvement
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe ever increasing degree of competition in the world means that, learning and development can never end. A recent article looks at how the meaning of high performance in the worlds of sports, the arts and finally business , and what it now takes to achieve it, has changed over the years. The
Speaking of Leadership® – Keeping Your Business Models Relevant
Reading Time: < 1 minuteTechnology and demand for content are disrupting the entertainment business and making life tougher for other content creators and the middlemen. Maybe you can learn how to change your own business model before time and circumstance make if a matter of life and death by absorbing the lessons of those who
