Titanic Syndrome: Why Companies Sink and How to Prevent it Happening to You
I never think of shopping as a time for excitement, but in 2019, I was in for a mild shock when I visited my local mall. There, I saw something that only a few years ago would have been unimaginable. Sears, which took up over a quarter of the mall’s entire floor space, was pulling […]
The Overfished Ocean Strategy: Powering Up Innovation
We live at a time of remarkable transformation. The linear throwaway economy of today—where we extract resources, process them, use them barely once, and trash them immediately as we would a cheap plastic fork—is coming to an end. We are, simply put, running out of things to mine and places to trash. And the market […]
Why a Circular Economy is Critical Now
Forget red and blue oceans, it’s the overfished ocean that should be calling your strategy shots. Ask any experienced manager or aspiring MBA student around the world for their favorite subject in the field of business, and the answer will strike you with overwhelming consistency. Strategy! At the time when shaking economies are struggling to […]