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Yahoo investors have plenty to be worried about. Yahoo doesn't need a "tough" CEO, it needs a CEO with the insight to create, and implement, a new strategy and a series of tactical actions do not sum to a new strategy.

4 March 2013 - 12:20pm

in: TMT

Tags: Adam Hartung, Yahoo, Marissa Mayer, Google, Amazon, Apple

Dell - Take the money and run! Innovation trumps execution

BY Adam Hartung

Dell was the rare example of a company that was built on nothing more than execution.

19 February 2013 - 12:58pm

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Tags: Adam Hartung, Dell Inc, Michael Dell, HP, PC, iPad

Failure inevitable for companies who miss market shift

BY Adam Hartung

No longer is Microsoft seen as a leader, and instead it is rapidly losing market relevancy as people look to Apple, Google, Amazon, Samsung, Facebook and others for leadership.

22 January 2013 - 3:47pm

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Tags: Microsoft, Adam Hartung, PC, Windows 8, Apple, Android

Why Jeff Bezos is our greatest living CEO

BY Adam Hartung

In an era when most of us are happy to earn 5-10 per cent per year - which equates to doubling your money about once a decade - these CEOs exceeded expectations 30-60 fold.

9 January 2013 - 2:58pm

in: TMT

Tags: iPod, iPhone, Adam Hartung, Apple

McDonald's & the ghost of Christmas

BY Adam Hartung

No company can hope to succeed by simply doing more of the same forever.

20 December 2012 - 5:22pm

in: General

Tags: Adam Hartung, McDonalds, Christmas, Jacob Marley

Irrelevancy leads to failure – Worry for Yahoo, Microsoft, HP, Sears, etc.

BY Adam Hartung

Once you are no longer relevant, customers quickly stop paying attention to practically anything you do.