The Quality of Relationships Defines Business Success
What business textbooks are silent about
Most of what you’ve heard about business strategy is a Big Strategy Lie. They use it to confuse you. Strategy as a concept is much simpler than many think.
Cell phones vs. blockchain
On 3 April 1973, Motorola engineer Marty Cooper was standing on the corner of Sixth Avenue in New York City. He was holding what would later become the first cell phone in history – the Motorola DynaTac 8000X.
He rang a rival at Bell Laboratories. Cooper triumphantly told him he was calling from “a personal, handheld, portable cell phone.”
It took technology at least 20 years to enter our life. But today, even my 85-year-old father has a mobile phone.
In 2008, a person known as Satoshi Nakamoto introduced blockchain.
Seven years later, the world seemed to have gone wild for blockchain. Business prophets and visionaries promised us we would live in a different world soon.
The banks would disappear, they exclaimed, as would real estate agencies.
Supply chains worldwide would impr…