260830 Why Management Writing Often Does Not Give Data Supporting Its Claims
What readers need is the data that would tell them whether the idea works where it counts—on a significant scale
What readers need is the data that would tell them whether the idea works where it counts—on a significant scale
Adaptive mindsets beat static processes: Netflix, NVIDIA & Microsoft reframed successful models for bigger digital/AI wins, embedding learning firm-wide.
Why are leading journals and consultants prescribing even more hierarchy for businesses?
Over 25 years, MSV-focused firms often underperformed and faced market discipline, while customer-obsessed firms like Amazon, Apple Google ASML &
In the bigger historical picture, the last half-century’s preoccupation with maximizing shareholder value was a transitory self-interested aberration from common
Businesses & society must choose: Value Creators like Henry Ford (real innovation for customers) or Self-Dealers like Claude Hopkins. Data
BCG’s article in HBR “The False Alignment Trap” exemplifies deeper flaws in management thinking, consulting advice & business writing. Readers
MSV — the idea Jack Welch called ‘the dumbest in the world’ — failed spectacularly. It’s back in HBR. Why
HBR revives “maximizing shareholder value”—what Jack Welch called “the dumbest idea in the world”—treating customers as constraints. True value creation
A 100,000-year lens on value creation: Saints, Value Creators, Self-Dealers, Extractors & Oscillators. Golden ages often follow extractive crises. Value