Voices » Umair Haque » Daily Reading: Letting Go of the Past
11:13 AM Friday July 25, 2008
A textbook example of industrial-era strategy from Microsoft - feel the lame.
If Chinese demand isn't fueling food inflation, what is? Lol - the real problem is that today's markets are no different than yesterday's.
Business needs to think about ideas like good and evil. Here's another example why.
DNA, market microstructure, and how not to run the global economy.
If you must be evil...at least do it well.
Asymmetrical competitors in finance, read this - and then get to work. That level of inertia is an amazingly rich target - talk about being stuck in yesterday.
"Who else is going to lend to them?". Perhaps the problem is that the world's most productive economies have been bailing out banks for almost three decades now.
Why is the IPO window closed? There are tons of reasons, but I don't this is one. Yet another point of weakness in yesterday's DNA.
You know, sometimes it's worth remembering just how exuberant irrational exuberance was...exactly a year ago.
This is what the future looks like: new DNA powering authentic economic growth, not the illusion of growth. Do not miss.
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Umair Haque is Director of the Havas Media Lab, a new kind of strategic advisor that helps investors, entrepreneurs, and firms experiment with, craft, and drive radical management, business model, and strategic innovation.
Prior to Havas, Umair founded Bubblegeneration, an agenda-setting advisory boutique that helped shape the strategies of investors, entrepreneurs, and blue chip companies across media and consumer industries. Bubblegeneration’s work has been recognized by publications like Wired, The Red Herring, Business 2.0, and BusinessWeek, and in Chris Anderson’s Long Tail, to which Umair was a contributor.
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