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Open Strategy: Mastering Disruption From Outside The C-Suite

Innov8rs

By adopting an open strategy, leadership teams can access diverse external knowledge sources and become aware of their biases, while also building buy-in to accelerate execution. Christian reports that corporates with open-minded leadership have over 50% of all strategic initiatives open. Are You Ready To Open Up Your Strategy?

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The Orange Socks Story I’ve Never Written Before

BrainZooming

The occasion was presenting our first strategic market plan at Yellow Transportation (whose name was Yellow but whose color was orange) to the senior leadership team. Over time, another guy in the department and I got into an informal competition for who could have more orange stuff. Current Orange Socks. I said I hadn’t.

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Disrupting Markets – Why PayPal Is Worth More Than Ebay

Adam Hartung

in 2002 , in order to grease the wheels for faster ecommerce growth. eBay has run into stiff competition, as CraigsList has grown to take over the “garage sale” and small local business ecommerce. But leadership became complacent, and now it is very likely overvalued. So eBay bought fledgling PayPal for $1.5B

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Do Not Follow the Herd – Sell McDonald’s and Microsoft

Adam Hartung

Leadership touted a higher same store sales number, but that is completely misleading. McDonald’s leadership has undertaken a back to basics program. As customer counts are declining, leadership is trying to pull more money out of its declining “core.” McDonald’s profits rose 23%.

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Innovation – Why Bezos Succeeded, While Lampert Failed at Sears

Adam Hartung

Quick Rundown: In January, 2002 Kmart is headed for bankruptcy. Heck, leadership had discontinued the famous catalogues in 1993 to stop store cannibalization and push people into locations where the company could promote more products and services. So that was where he had leadership focus. Chart Source: Yahoo Finance 5/13/16.

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What do you need to innovate?

David Marks

Good leadership provide clarity and focus. Technology leadership forges a competitive advantage. Purposefulness breaks further into: Leadership and Clarity. When Amazon Web Services (AWS) was introduced back in 2002, Amazon was a fledgling web retailer mainly known for selling books cheaply.

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What do you need to innovate?

David Marks

Good leadership provide clarity and focus. Technology leadership forges a competitive advantage. Purposefulness breaks further into: Leadership and Clarity. When Amazon Web Services (AWS) was introduced back in 2002, Amazon was a fledgling web retailer mainly known for selling books cheaply.