Karl Marx, whose 200th birthday is on May 5th, was a thought leader with no business understanding or major in marketing. He had the temperament of a theological intellectual – the kind who starts with some nonsensical premise and then … Read More
People have different learning styles. Not everyone thinks visually, although most people do. This is important for game developers like Andromeda Simulations to remember, because we specialize in the visual display of information. But we also have to pay attention … Read More
Prices rising and falling as a result of Supply and Demand isn’t a purely theoretical idea, and the people on either side of the deal don’t have to have even heard of it. It happens naturally. If I want some … Read More
Maggie Smith’s classic line in Downton Abbey, the aristocratically innocent “What is a weekend?”, conveys the idea of the rich who are so idle that they have no concept of the need for a day off from work. They have … Read More
We often look at business acumen as a group of business skills competencies including finance, strategy and decision-making. Today I was reviewing some post-workshop comments from an Income/Outcome program in Japan, and I realized that ‘big picture understanding’ may not … Read More
Fortune magazine, October 29, 2012: “There’s No Quit in Michael Porter. He has influenced more executives – and more nations – than any other business professor on Earth. Now, at 65, he and an all-star team aim to rescue the … Read More
Hewlett-Packard is in the news at the moment over a reassessment of the value of UK-based Autonomy which it bought last year. Autonomy is a world leader in “meaning-based computing”, the analysis and use of all the unstructured information that … Read More
The “Entrepreneurial Challenge” version of Income/Outcome is now being scheduled as a 5-hour evening session by Andromeda Simulations Arabia, and headlined as “The 5-hour MBA”. This shortest version of our workshops has elements of both fun: and serious planning and … Read More
Another once-dominant iconic company, Kodak, declares bankruptcy and the stories fly about mismanagement, the lack of visionary leadership, and lost opportunities. After all, Kodak invented the digital camera in 1975 and did nothing with it for 15 years. How could … Read More
I love a good business success story, especially one in which a leader is able to transform a company like this one by Steve Lohr in the NY Times about IBM’s success over the last decade under the leadership of … Read More