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Oneida: The Victorian Free Love Commune that Changed the US
The 1850s commune spawned business practices and businesses that exists to this day.
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Michael Olenick
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Nintendo & Blue Ocean Strategy: Record Profits ... Again
The blue ocean strategy Switch blew away the competition by ignoring it, just like the Wii did way back when.
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Michael Olenick
From Intel to Apple - Noncompetes are Bad Business
California's reluctance to enforce noncompetes has fueled trillions of dollars worth of entrepreneurism.
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Michael Olenick
Idealistic Innovation - Updated by Alan Kay
The forest fire now burning through the markets - with too many food delivery and payment offerings and too few value innovators - will clear the way…
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Michael Olenick
Verification as Opportunity: a Blue Ocean Devoid of Bots
There's enormous opportunity in a social media network of trust, a blue ocean because the current social media giants clearly don't care.
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Michael Olenick
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Blue Ocean Strategy Basics - Buyer Experience Cycle
Put yourself in the shoes of your buyer
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Michael Olenick
Standardized Interchangeable Parts: Breaking the Status Quo to Usher in the Modern World
How the invention of an unknown and disliked 18th century French gunsmith brought about everything from modern factories to an ability to read this…
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Michael Olenick
Remembering Farmville, a Game that Changed It All
Nintendo studied noncustomers to create the blockbuster Wii and all went well until blue ocean Farmville.
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Michael Olenick
Jeff Immelt Whines
Releasing a new book the former G.E. CEO, who ran the business into the ground, blames everybody besides himself.
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Michael Olenick
Fair Process Fail: Anger About Silicon Valley Bank is Lingering Resentment from 2008
Ordinary people never recovered from their anger that bankers were bailed while their less connected counterparties weren't.
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Jens Meyer
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Michael Olenick
Stakeholder Value: Preserving Capitalism
Business Can't Survive Forever In a Solely Material World
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Michael Olenick
Another Facebook Fail: Toxic Antivaxxers Run Amok
Do the research: millions of deaths worldwide, countless suffering, and trillions of dollars later, Facebook and Google are doing nothing to stop the…
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Michael Olenick
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