PrimeGenesis Blog

What Oscar Munoz Must Do in His First 100 Days as CEO of Scandal-Ridden United Airlines
a prototypical hot landing. He’s under fire from…

Future Capability Planning in Action: Bosch’s Acquistion of Battery-maker Seeo
If you’re not going to follow up your long-term strategic planning with future capability planning, don’t even bother starting
A First-Time Leader? Here’s How to Keep Others Happy

Practical Strategy Lessons From Jimmy Carter, Jason Day And Donald Trump
when to over-invest in must win situations, when to adjust as appropriate to keep on things track, and when to walk away

How You Must Change Your Strategic Approach Given Emerging Ecosystems
The evolution of strategic advantage has changed from tracks to pipes and now to platforms. In the old old days, the people that made all the real money didn’t own the rail cars or the goods; they owned the tracks those cars traveled on. In the more recent old days,...

Why Target’s Promotion of its CFO to COO Foreshadows its Demise
Target is promoting CFO John Mulligan to COO. On the one hand, he probably deserves it and this is the most common path to becoming a Fortune 500 CEO. As Jeffrey Saunders laid out in this publication, 30% of CEOs started in finance and 20% started in sales and...

Three Keys To Refereeing Conflict
Positioning, Man Management, Decision-making

Overachievers And Underachievers: Feed One. Starve The Other.
you can help people achieve and over-achieve – but only if they’ve got it in them to start with. If they don’t, move on.

How David Taylor Should Manage His Own Onboarding as Procter & Gamble’s New CEO
David Taylor’s challenges as Procter & Gamble’s new CEO would be particularly acute. He would need to complete the next steps of P&G’s “shrink to grow” turn-around by reducing the bureaucracy and reorienting leadership around a new, yet-to-be clarified growth...

Build a Culture of Winning Like the Dodgers, Ferrari Racing and Others – and Not Like the Cowboys
Product, customers and brand are inextricably linked in sustainable winning cultures
