Disruption

The Power of Asking The (Right) Question

You have heard the old story of Henry Ford stating that “if I had asked people what they…

Learnings From Cooking (And German Sayings)

There is a saying in German which finds its roots in cooking: “Es wird nichts so…

Transform Your Company Into a Future That Is Unfolding Before You

The most unusual question…

The story goes something like this: Sometime in the earlier part of the 1980s, while Toto’s enduring hit…

Explorers, Pioneers and Settlers

Over the holidays — Happy New Year Everybody! — I spent time to review the research we have been doing…

The Value of Failure

New Value is a Function of Failure, not Success.

I recently stumbled across this sentence. It’s the perfect encapsulation of how to create new value. Note that this is about new value specifically, not value in general. There is, of course, plenty of value being…

The Achilles Heel of Large Corporations (And How to Leverage Them)

Pretty much every established/incumbent company in pretty much any industry shares the same two Achilles heels — making them a ready target for their upstart competitors:

Gradually And Then Suddenly

In Ernest Hemingway’s novel The Sun Also Rises you will find a dialog between two characters which goes like this:

“How did you go bankrupt?” Bill asked “Two ways,” Mike said. “Gradually and then suddenly.”

Turning Analog Into Digital

If you have ever seen one of my talks, be it in-person or online, you might have noticed that I reiterate one point again and again: Once something which was analog turns into a digital good, it moves on an exponential curve (as opposed to its linear growth in the age of analog)…

The Dogmas Of the Quiet Past Are Inadequate

On December 1st, 1862 Abraham Lincoln wrote a long message to Congress in which he passionately argues for controversial measures such as the voluntary colonization of slaves and compensated emancipation.