Nurturing and scaling a purposeful innovation culture while building effective leadership.
Culture
A powerful statement from Warren Buffett, writing Berkshire Hathaway's annual letter last February: Sometimes I’ve made mistakes in assessing the future economics of a business I’ve purchased for Berkshire — each a case of capital allocation gone wrong. That happens with both judgments about marketable equities — we
Strategy
I've been quite busy these last weeks and have had to cut in my writing and posting time quite a bit. Let's jump back into it by sharing what held me up so much: designing an effective Organic Growth framework for Saint Gobain global teams.
Newsletter
A few days ago, I wrote on LinkedIn about switching from Orange as an ADSL provider in France to StarLink. Philippe MÉDA on LinkedIn: #adsl #fiber #logical #decision #business #culture | 16 comments🟧 Many weeks ago I tried to upgrade from my historically bad #ADSL connection to a brand new #fiber
Culture
When discussing the tools of value creation and positioning for innovative ventures, I often explain that in Europe, France is one of the most risk-averse national cultures worldwide, just slightly more optimistic than Japan. For reference, Hofstede's Uncertainty Avoidance Index (UAI) gives the top countries risk-averse (very high
Culture
A more personal discussion this week on what it means to be who you are when dealing with complex business issues.
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] How large is your leadership team? * [JH] Nvidia's leadership team is 60 plus... 60 people. * And they all report to you? * Yeah, they all report to me. 60 direct
Culture
Understanding what is a corporate culture in a way that is both clear and practical is not an easy task. When describing what is a future-driven culture, there's probably not much that can top Steve Jobs in 1983: Apple strategy is really simple. What we want to do
Culture
When discussing innovation (changing the market), it's often overlooked that your brand will hold you back, sometimes drastically. A brand embodies your market's tacit and explicit expectations about what you deliver. If in doubt about it, or even if you don't know how much
Culture
In January 2009, Tim Cook, at the time Acting Apple CEO, was laying off his doctrine during Apple's first Earnings Call of the year: We believe that we’re on the face of the Earth to make great products, and that’s not changing. We’re constantly focusing
Strategy
I've been discussing seasonal businesses with a few customers recently. Whether there are B2C or B2B, dealing with a peak and a low season completely changes how you can approach innovation. There are many reasons for that, but one that always strikes me as spectacularly missed: managers of
Advanced
It's no secret we focus as much on culture as strategy when working with customers. The reason is quite simply that if you don't factor in the type of business culture you deal with, you have zero chance to deploy an innovation strategy that will take