In 2006, I was invited to conduct a masterclass for a group of Nokia high potential managers on the topic of driving growth through innovation. At the time, the company was enjoying double digit growth. The were rated the eighth most innovative company in the world by BusinessWeek magazine. And they were winning market share on every continent. What could possibly…
When Covid shut down life as we know it a year ago, many a company went into “batten down the hatches” mode. They followed their recession playbooks. When demand took off instead, in such industries as exercise equipment, pet products, and virtual meeting software, many were caught flat-footed. Some are still struggling to catch up. Wisconsin-based Trek Bicycles is out front right now based…
“How can you be upbeat about a ‘post-pandemic future’ when there’s so much pain and uncertainty right now,” a colleague asked me the other day, as we were preparing for a webinar. Valid question, I had to admit. Here it is December and things seem on the brink of chaos. A surge in coronavirus cases on top of a surge…
Generals, the old saying goes, are always fighting the last war. In the age of global pandemic and Moore’s Law, this is a prescription for disaster. Artificial intelligence, quantum computing, disinformation, and biotechnology are “making traditional battlefields and war-fighting methods increasingly irrelevant,” notes a just-released bipartisan task force report on the “Future of Defense.” These days, generals and policy-makers in…
