Hydra in Charge
Was Ross Levinsohn’s departure from Yahoo inevitable, or even necessary? I once took on the role of CEO of a modest but well established business and on my first day…
Q: What is a drug company when its patents begin to run out? A: Ten years too late!
Just look what happens when you don’t invest and protect the source of your competitive advantage. AstraZeneca, the world’s fifth largest drugs company, measured by prescription drug sales, saw its…
The Next Big Thing
Apple marketeers are as worthy of the epithet “genius” as anyone working in its shops, but this time they are perhaps just a little premature. EXTERIOR: St Albans High Street,…
Tubular Bells Revisited
Not many people can remind us why their brand is great, at little or no cost. I was going to start this by writing “Richard Branson is in the…
Yahoo?
Marissa to the Rescue! If you have read many of my daily business commentaries – I don't call them “blogs” any more, as I was told it undervalued them –…
Should G4S’s Buckles Go?
Are penitential firings of proven business leaders really necessary? Measured on most yardsticks of business performance Nick Buckles, the CEO of G4S, has proven himself. He has created huge amounts…
Isn’t Brand Advertising Just A Waste of Money?
A lack of immediate and easily measureable results, poorly informed buyers and an advertising industry that is just too creative have given brand advertising a bad name. Apparently, in these…
Sewing the Head Back On the Chicken
What a treat we have install, waiting to see if France will allow Carrefour to turnaround. On 31st January 2012 I wrote about the sad plight of Carrefour, the second…
The $23M Book
While you shouldn’t compete on price, it’s a very important hygiene factor. High-speed pricing software has been introduced on Amazon to apply pricing rules based on competing retailers’ prices.…
The Inevitable Fate of the Change Agent
Is it really possible to make peoples’ lives so unhappy at work that they kill themselves? I have had more than one boss with bullying tendencies. The best example was…
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