🔗 The Case for the Executive Chair

I annotated this in the middle of 2024 with the intention to share, it’s pretty damming.

Only one or two directors on the typical 11-member board say they understand industry economics and how the company makes money. Two or three say they have little or no understanding.

Exactly in line with my observations - failure to understand leads to a focus on history, compliance and not losing - because they don’t even understand how to grow and win.

🖇️ You might not be surprised to learn that I have a fix. It’s called The Business Equation

🔗 Scorsese Takes Aim at Streaming’s Lack of Curation … and more … including ‘content’

the art of cinema is being systematically devalued, sidelined, demeaned, and reduced to its lowest common denominator” by conceptualization of films as “content.

🖇️ 🔍 You might recall - the ‘content thing’ has been a drum beat of mine for a while now.

As always delighted to find more people jumping on the bus … or is it a train now?

🖇️ Globalisation Defined -18 Years Ago 😂

🎥 The Two Popes, 2019 - ★★★★½ 🖇️

🎥 Conclave, 2024 - ★★★★★ 🖇️

I’ve clearly got something about Popes‼️

To be real clear - I am NOT an Airline Analyst. I haven’t even played one on TV. But I do tend to look around and question claims that seem spurious. (And in my time down in New Zealand, I do hear a large number of claims made that do not seem to add up).

🖇️ My take on Chris Luxon. If you don’t know the name, that’s because he’s no Jacinda Arden .. though he holds her office in Aotearoa

(I wrote this in response to a newsletter on Substack suggesting that despite being one of those CEO types, he’s not doing a great job as PM. My point is that despite the press, I’m not sure he was what good as a CEO!)

(Another old post that didn’t make it into the ether until now)

🔗 Om on content, it’s as if I wrote it - not with the natural flow of Om - but definitely 🖇️🔎 the subject matter.

Not my words - but I did 🖇️ call it nearly 5 years ago - and 🖇️ 🔎 a few times since.

“So are Sapiens and Neanderthals the same species or different species? And is “species” an objective reality that biologists discover, or is it an intersubjective reality that biologists impose?”

💬 Yuval Noah Harari

🔗🖇️ Coincidentally, have been exploring this idea as applied to Mathematics.

Over on Substack I published 🔗🖇️ this …

At first blush, it might seem to be about maths and it certainly connects, but it’s really about those who challenge the status quo, see something different, push boundaries, which, not coincidentally is exactly what great startups do.

Love to know what you all think?

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