Start Stopping Faster
Organizations can evolve and by focusing on three specific things, they can improve their own agility and start stopping things faster.
Snowflake, Before It Was Obvious
^ADJ: Snowflake has been the blockbuster IPO of 2020, share price more than doubling, but what intrigued me was the "overnight" success story - Peter Wagner shares his story with the company as one of the early stage investors, some 8 years ago.
Don’t Neglect Your Customers During a Merger
When companies merge, customer experience (CX) is often overlooked — yet it’s arguably one of the most important aspects of any company. In fact, according to Gartner research, tomorrow’s companies are expected to compete primarily on customer experience.
Our Ghost-Kitchen Future
Last fall, walking down Mission Street, in San Francisco, I noticed a new addition to an otherwise unremarkable parking lot at the base of Bernal Heights Hill: a large, white trailer, about the size of three parking spaces, plastered with a banner that read “food pick up here.” On one side was a list of restaurant brands with names and logos that seemed algorithmically generated: WokTalk, Burger Bytes, Fork and Ladle, Umami, American Eclectic Burger, Wings & Things ....
Look to Military History for Lessons in Crisis Leadership
“There is no business playbook for a pandemic.”
Austria's 100-Year Bond Pays 0.88% Interest. That's Normal Now
Nothing says it’s cheap to borrow quite like a 100-year bond with a yield of 0.88%. Austria returned to the century-bond club on Wednesday with a new 2 billion-euro ($2.3 billion) debt issue on its most favorable terms yet.