Being original has never been so easy.

It is not because we invented better ways of being original. Instead, originality is so rare.

Here is a quick guide to stand out;

Imperceptibly small waves can create big waves. Following established trends, at best, typically delivers market-rate returns known as beta in investment terms. On the other hand, the alpha—returns beyond market growth—lies in beating the market by spotting and acting on not-so-obvious opportunities before they enter the mainstream.

Dear CxO,

That “control tower” looks like what it actually is: a glorified dashboard.

Demand these 2 things from your organization

With a little bit of willpower and discipline, you can curate an online retinue that will have you dominating the boardroom in no time. I've been doing it for almost two decades, and here are the magical results.

For most business leaders expecting hard results, continuous improvement (CI) initiatives look like circling the origin, starting all over again, fixing issues that were thought to be fixed, and so-called improvements that don’t appear in aggregates.

Here is the escape plan:

What is Industry 7.0?

Philosophers of industry X.0s are splitting hair with the nuances to justify their next point-zero concepts.

Most organizations lack the integral insights, decisions, and actions at the speed, time, and cost they want. This is often diagnosed as the result of siloed systems, departments, processes, etc. And this diagnosis leads to building pipelines & bridges everywhere.

True integration requires deductive intelligence. Connections don’t suffice.

Snowball effect, leverage, sweet spot, synergy, virtuous cycle, compounding, automation…

You need growth hacking if these words are missing in your team’s daily language.

Everybody falls in love with growth hacking at first sight. It is irresistibly sexy, wild, and luminous. Then, they want to tame it into a repeatable process that manufactures growth.

But the wolf doesn’t play in the circus

In the manufacturing world, people tend to ignore the potential of digital natives and their disruptive impact. e.GO, a German automobile start-up, achieved spectacular Industry 4.0 maturity in less than five years since its foundation in 2015.

Credit events destroy the global balance sheet, while industrial revolutions destroy the global P&L. One kills accumulated wealth, the other kills the ability to create it. First is sudden, latter is gradual.

Most I4.0 definitions give a catalog of productized technologies, at best, a list of use cases describing which technologies are relevant to I4.0 but missing a good holistic explanation of what I4.0 itself is.