Escape Velocity Archives

Thinking Differently—It’s Time to Fire Up Your Firm’s Imagination

There are more than a few reasons your firm or industry won't make it through the next decade. While you won't derail or defuse the power of the many disruptive market forces swirling in our world, it's the lack of imagination for harnessing these forces that may ultimately relegate your firm to the business history books. Ironically, imagination may be the most controllable and most important of the tools you need to survive and even thrive in this world.

By Art Petty|2019-09-04T14:38:38-05:00September 4th, 2019|Art of Managing, Career, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Management Innovation, Think Differently|0 Comments

Leadership Caffeine™—Breakaway Leadership Part 2

Post number 1 in this series focused on the behaviors that often stifle the pursuit of moving into a new area while sustaining the legacy business. In this post, we look at 8 behaviors and approaches that YOU and your management counterparts directly control that contribute to success with this challenging endeavor:

By Art Petty|2016-10-22T17:11:15-05:00February 23rd, 2014|Art of Managing, High Performance Management Teams, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Leading Change, Management Innovation, Product Management, Project Management, Strategy|0 Comments

Strategy and Category—In Pursuit of Growth

Chances are your organization has plans to “change” and as part of your strategy, you have the challenge to identify and capitalize on new sources of growth. Those concepts make for pretty slides and create head-nodding executive and boardroom presentations. Actually doing the work is as I’m sure you know, far from simple. Here are some thoughts on the challenges to move into new growth categories while fighting the gravitational pull of the past:

By Art Petty|2016-10-22T17:11:15-05:00February 6th, 2014|Art of Managing, Leadership, Management Innovation, Strategy|0 Comments

Leadership Caffeine™ Podcast #10: Geoffrey Moore on Escape Velocity

Organizations of all sizes and types, from high tech to manufacturing and not-for-profit, struggle with a common dilemma...how to escape the pull of the past as they look forward into a fast-changing and very different world. Geoffrey A. Moore, the renowned high-tech strategist and author, perhaps best known for his book, Crossing the Chasm, a guide to helping firms move from early adopters across this fateful and often fatal canyon, is back with his latest book, Escape Velocity-Free Your Company's Future from the Pull of the Past. In the book, Moore tackles this tough topic of moving beyond successes of the past towards new generations of offerings and growth.

By Art Petty|2016-10-22T17:11:35-05:00October 19th, 2011|Leadership Caffeine Podcast|5 Comments