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I've been reading a lot about China lately. Having worked there for more than a decade—teaching MBA classes to young Chinese business leaders while consulting for European firms in the market—I wouldn’t claim to be a fully-fledged expert, but I’m far from naive. For
Strategy
For me, one of the always best scenes of Moneyball scene is when Oakland A's General Manager Billy Beane (played by Brad Pitt) gets lectured by an unknown assistant Peter Brand (played by Jonah Hill). Peter doesn't care about conventional baseball wisdom where picking athletes as
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YouTube’s steady takeover of the living room is a fascinating case study of how innovation is not about competing on products. The platform understands this very well, as it has become a serious contender in the battle for something both finite and universal: your time.
Hot Takes
Juicero was a startup that launched an expensive, Wi-Fi-connected juicing machine that cost $400 at launch and was later reduced to $200. The idea was to be a Nespresso-like business only with proprietary juice packs that users inserted into a beautiful machine to produce fresh juice. The company wasn'
Culture
A more personal discussion this week on what it means to be who you are when dealing with complex business issues.
Hot Takes
Barring a few visionary companies that consistently navigate the innovator’s dilemma and pursue transformative innovation, most organizations achieve radical breakthroughs only when teetering on the edge of catastrophe. Crisis remains the most potent driver of innovation—not pleasant or comfortable, but it forces a reckoning and compels strategic questions
Strategy
In the world of corporate innovation, there’s a parallel that rings with the same fatalistic undertone as “Nobody gets fired for buying IBM.” You're not going to be fired for running an innovation pipeline. It sounds harmless, but underneath, we have the same play-safe logic from most
Hot Takes
I'm a firm believer in "If you name it, you're not doing it." If you specifically name innovation, design, or social inclusion when communicating or marketing your company, it mostly means you know it's an issue for your business. You're
Culture
In a recent interview, Jensen HUANG, the CEO of NVIDIA, is challenged on how he manages his team: * [Interviewer]Â How large is your leadership team? * [JH]Â Nvidia's leadership team is 60 plus... 60 people. * And they all report to you? * Yeah, they all report to me. 60 direct
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Let's face it, most innovation books suck. They look nicer and nicer with fancy, colorful designs, yet they won't help you move your business one inch forward.
Insights2025
The final article on the "2025 Insights" series loops back on startups, why the game has already changed and what it means for corporates.
AI
As I was recently exploring this notion of 80%-OK vs. 99%-OK problems, I dove into how the current wars in Ukraine and Gaza have changed AI. For instance, how much leeway do you give to errors when a drone has to identify and lock on a specific target