The 5 Levels of Insight: How Great Companies De-Risk Big Bets The best companies win not by taking bigger risks, but by knowing something others don’t and using it well.
Why Investors And Consultants Create A Sea Of Sameness In today’s volatile business environment, activist investors and management consultants often push companies toward sameness through benchmarking. This article explores how leaders can resist this pressure and instead embrace unique strategies that drive real innovation and sustainable growth.
How Leaders Get Tricked Into Focusing on the Wrong Problems Fixing the Now is fine. But not at the expense of creating the Next. Every day, thousands of very smart people at excellent companies devote vast amounts of time and energy to tasks that feel important but really aren’t.
Tech Firms Are Solving Hard Problems Again. But They Risk Missing Something Even Harder—Getting Customers on Board. Leaders are missing something crucial if they think that solving technology challenges is sufficient for success. That’s because tech problems are never just tech problems—they’re also technology adoption problems.
Why Direct-to-Consumer Businesses Are Struggling … and Why You Shouldn’t Count Them Out Is DTC really dead? Not yet. The big challenge isn’t the direct-to-consumer model itself. It’s the way it’s being implemented—and that’s a very solvable problem.
Where to Play: Don’t Get Caught in the Collapsing Middle For a while, the world’s biggest companies found success by focusing on a medium price and quality point. In Forbes, Dev Patnaik outlines the three big shifts that have disrupted this middle-market strategy, and how to move from “how to win” to “where to play” in order to unlock new growth.
