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The Phoenix Principle:Winning Through Growth
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Which of these companies do you think is most likely to double revenue in the next 5-10 years?
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Boeing
NBC/Universal
Caterpillar
Apple
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Which of these companies do you think is most likely to fail in 5-10 years?
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AT&T
Microsoft
3M
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On which of these Boards would you prefer to have served in the last 3 years?
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What happened at Kodak?
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Innovation created growth as Kodak changed people’s behavior
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Success paid for even more disruptive innovation
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But the innovator didn’t shift the market (or even follow well)
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The true secret to business success surprised us
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Core
Focus
Leadership
Overcoming Lock-in
The biggest risk in business today is Status Quo risk
Apple succeeds by entering/creating new markets
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Apple’s biggest/best skill is anticipating the future
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How can Boards help companies be more successful?
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Be future-oriented
Obsess about competitors
Encourage disruption
Force white space
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Step 1 – Focus on future trends; not past markets/solutions
Rethink the agenda, reallocate the time
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Less than 20%
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What percentage of your Board’s time is spent studying future scenarios and planning backward to current requirements?
Step 2 – Focus on needs and competitors; not current solutions and customers
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Industry Lock-in: Customers care about the quality of analog music
Industry Lock-in: Customers want laptops for portability
Obsess about fringe competitors and market opportunities
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Step 3 – Ask how the company will be disruptive; not how it will be better, faster, cheaper
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No company, or industry, is beyond disruptive innovation
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Step 4 – Ask about white space projects and teams
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Prediction
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Boeing
NBC/Universal
Caterpillar
Apple
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4
AT&T
Microsoft
3M
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Revenue doubler: Investor Failure
The Phoenix Principle for superior rates of return
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Invest for the future, not from the past
Focus on competitors, not customers
Be disruptive,not sustaining
Manage in White Space to innovate
Contact Information
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847.726.8465www.adamhartung.com
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