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  • GameStop Stock Frenzy: A Lesson in Contingency Planning GameStop Stock Frenzy: A Lesson in Contingency Planning

    GameStop Stock Frenzy: A Lesson in Contingency Planning

GameStop Stock Frenzy: A Lesson in Contingency Planning

The GameStop stock frenzy seemed like a flash-in-the-pan but then, last week, it was reinvigorated.  What Lessons Found can business owners and CEOs gain from it?

“ was the week when a bunch of amateur traders made Wall Street’s finest look like idiots.”  This is the opening sentence for one report on GameStop’s stock 500% runup.  By now, we have all heard this tale and its consequences including billions lost; a rushed investment to save Robin Hood; Robin Hood’s freezing trades of the stock and the call for congressional hearings.  The resulting panic and lack of a coordinated response indicate that few considered the possibility of a social media driven stock run – let alone how to address it.  But should regulators, Robin Hood, and hedge funds caught-short been better prepared? (more…)

  • Clarifying the road ahead for CEOs & Owners Clarifying the road ahead for CEOs & Owners

    Clarifying the road ahead for CEOs & Owners

Clarifying the road ahead for CEOs & Owners

When you get into your car on frigid winter mornings, the warmth of your breath fogs the windshield.  That fogged windshield offers us a Lesson Found on the current business environment.

A few months after she bought it, I was driving my mother’s new car.  I was distressed because I couldn’t clearly see out of the windshield.  Everything seemed foggy. Then I turned in the direction of the rising sun and couldn’t see anything. (more…)

  • Staying the Course With Your Strategy Staying the Course With Your Strategy

    Staying the Course With Your Strategy

Staying the Course With Your Strategy

I recently listened to a podcast on one country’s handling of the original SARS pandemic.  How this virus was contained in 2003 offers us Lessons Found about business strategies.

SARS-CoV, a coronavirus with origins similar to COVID-19, made its debut seventeen years ago.  This “original” SARS was less contagious than COVID-19 and the outbreak was contained primarily to Asia.  Singapore’s experience with SARS started when several travelers were hospitalized with the contagion.  The virus spread quickly within and across hospitals.  Assuming the virus was related to healthcare settings, the government developed a “containment and elimination” strategy (more…)