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Adam’s eye opening speeches show organizations how to deal with market shifts and align with trends to grow.
WORKSHOPS
Adam’s workshops allow you to uncover your business’s status quo risk and identify game changing opportunities in your industry.
COACHING
Adam can work with your Board and leadership team to help management understand market shifts and manage Status Quo Risk, leading to improved linkage to customer needs and better competitive performance.
MEET ADAM HARTUNG
MASTERING BUSINESS GROWTH
IN A DYNAMIC WORLD
Companies today struggle to maintain dominant market positions. When focusing on your core threatens to make your business irrelevant and the marketplace is changing so fast predicting its twists and turns seems impossible, your organization needs guidance — and fast.
Adam Hartung’s 20 plus years of experience developing and implementing successful business strategies to take advantage of emerging markets has made him a worldwide leading speaker on business growth. As a Fellow of National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) and as the No. 1 Leadership columnist for Forbes.com since 2009, Adam has been featured in publications such as Rolling Stone Magazine, The Week and BBC Television for his bold market predictions that have all came true. Through a rich collection of case studies and stories, Adam can show your organization how to develop new business, create new products and seize hidden marketplace opportunities.
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Toys R Us – How Bad Assumptions Fed Bad Financial Planning Creating Failure
Over the last decade everyone knew that customers were buying more stuff on-line, including toys. And everyone also knew that WalMart was using low prices on things like toys to keep customers going to their stores. If this was so obvious to everyone, why didn’t Toys R Us leadership do something? It has a lot to do with watching Trends.
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The Case For Trian’s Nelson Peltz Joining P&G’s Board
Trian’s Nelson Peltz invested about $3.5 billion in Procter & Gamble (P&G) shares, making Trian’s ownership 1.5%. He has been, so far, unsuccessful at gaining a seat on P&G’s board of directors. He has stated that adding him would help increase P&G’s market valuation. So now, P&G is now the largest company ever to engage in a proxy battle between the existing board and an outside investor. Why does Peltz want in and why does P&G want to keep him out?
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Apple Partners With Accenture To Build Enterprise Apps: 5 Reasons Apple Is Winning The Developer War
Apple’s iOS has far less market share than Google’s Android. But, tech services giant Accenture recently announced it was partnering with Apple to build enterprise apps for its customers, in financial services and retail. Apple is maintaining its technology leadership by capturing the enterprise app developer community. Five reasons why enterprise capability is important for your business.
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Uber: Be Very Careful Before Hiring Jeff Immelt As CEO
Uber’s bad news so far this year puts the board in the hot seat. Investors have taken write-downs and want someone to “steady the ship”. Is former GE CEO Jeffrey Immelt the right person for the job? Well, remember Yahoo, Apple, etc…
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A Bitcoin Is Worth $4,000–Why You Probably Should Not Own One
They can be used like a currency, but don’t physically exist like dollar bills. They are an online currency which can be used to buy things. Bitcoins are crypto-currency. Interested in possibly owning some Bitcoins? With no financial system, like the U.S. Federal Reserve, managing their existence and value, know the risks.
read moreFive Reasons I Regret Writing About Millennial Entrepreneurs
Recently, I wrote a column about 10 young entrepreneurs. Originally I titled it "10 under 20" but the Forbes editors thought that was too close to their "30 under 30" column so they changed it to "10 Great Lessons From Millennial Entrepreneurs." I didn't like that...
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