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Embracing a Higher Minimum Wage – to Win
The trend is to a higher minimum wage. Embracing it can lead to success, while fighting it can lead to disaster. Future performance will link to adaptability, not execution of a success formula rendered obsolete by market shifts
Dimon’s Undeserved Raise Indicates an Ineffective JPMC Board
JPMC doubled the CEO pay, and it was undeserved. This indicates a Board unable to control a leader that likely needs to be changed.
President Obama’s Miracle Market – How Wall Street Was So Wrong in 2013
Wall Street completely missed forecasting the 30% market growth in 2013. Why? Will Obama’s “Miracle Market” continue?
Facebook – The One Stock to Own in 2014
Facebook looks like the next Apple. Like previously unstoppable growth machines IBM, Microsoft, Amazon and Google Facebook is the stock you should own as the trend to social media keeps growing.
Santa, All I Want for Christmas Is a New CEO (and Better Compensation Plan)
Everyone has a stake in America's big, public corporations. Either as an investor, employee, customer, supplier or community leader. So how these corporations perform is a big deal for all of us. Unfortunately, we've had all too many corporations that have their...
Will Obama’s Presidential Legacy Be Ruined by a Website?
The Affordable Care Act was President Obama’s “landmark legislation.” But it may be undone by failure to build a web site. Vision doesn’t matter if you can’t implement the basics.
How Cable TV is Deaf to the Market Roar of Change
Cable operators remain deaf to market shifts likely to make them obsolete – even as customers buy less of their profitable products!
Vision Beats Numbers – How Apple Showed Intel A Better Way to Grow
Apple showed Intel that Big Data and analysis can be overwhelmed by simply having insight to new trends. In dynamic markets, analysis is insufficient for success.
Trends Really Matter – Ask Safeway and Aldi
Safeway’s Dominick’s division is being driven out of Chicago, while Marianno’s, Whole Foods and Aldi are growing. Safeway missed the trends, while others are building on them – thus creating losers and winners.
How the Game Changed Against Big Pharma – Creating New Opportunities
Big Pharma evolved away from R&D toward marketing – leaving pipelines empty. Now emerging companies are filling the void, which is good for smart investors and public health.
What Global Warming and the U.S. Government Shutdown Have in Common
Global warming and healthcare reform are both going to happen. Yet, Status Quo Police continue trying to inhibit effective forward planning and action. Is your organization being held hostage, unable to adapt to trends and market changes, by Status Quo Police?
Why Apple Investors Are Deservedly Worried
It has been 2 years since Apple gave the market a significant innovation. The stock tanked, and is mired moving sideways. How long should investors wait for the next bold move (the next blue ocean) from Apple? Can Tim Cook lead like Steve Jobs?
Out with a Whimper – HP, B of A, Alcoa and the DJIA
Three companies were booted off the DJIA this week. We can learn from them the risk of losing relevancy in a fast-changing world.
Microsoft’s $7.2B Nokia Mistake
Buying Nokia is yet more Microsoft money poured down the rat hole of trying to save the outdated Windows legacy as the market moves elsewhere.
Ballmer Resigning – Next?
With Ballmer leaving, Microsoft needs a new CEO with a dramatically different vision for Microsoft’s future – and a willingness to transform the company
Be Really Glad Bezos Bought The Washington Post
For news to thrive we need new business models that are far distant from old newspaper formulas. Let’s hope Jeff Bezos brings a serious helping of “tech think” to The Washington Post
Will Living Wage Trend Kill or Make McDonald’s and Walmart?
As jobs and unemployment remain big issues the trend to improve low pay scales to deal with income inequality grows. Yet, companies like McDonald’s and WalMart seem incapable of dealing with such major trends effectively.
Fighting Trends is Expensive – Coke and McDonald’s
Short term softness in soft drink and fast food giants Coke and McDonald’s point to the long-term obesity trend which will make future growth tough sledding for both companies (and industry peers)
How CEO Lampert’s BIAS Is Killing Sears – and Maybe Your Company Too
Even smart people can fail when not challenging their BIAS. Learn from the problems of CEO Lampert and the decline at Sears.
Some Leaders Never Learn – Tribune’s Big, Dumb Bet
Tribune is barely 6 months out of a 4 year bankruptcy, yet leadership is borrowing $2.7B to play “bet the company” on local TV stations – OUCH!
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