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Gerry Campbell, CEO, Entrepreneur, and Author. Former Senior Vice President and Group General Manager at AOL, between 2001-2006. And today CEO at Kryptonomic.io, helps you understand your customers and deliver the Web3 projects they love. With Gerry, we go through the early years of the commercial Internet. The first tech giants, as walled gardens. The […]

In this session, I interview Federico Faggin, physicist, engineer, inventor, and serial entrepreneur. Federico has been the protagonist and among the founding fathers of Silicon Valley. In fact, with his work at Intel, in the 1970s he has given birth to the family of microchips, on top of which a whole industry has been built […]

Growth marketing is a process of rapid experimentation, which in a way has to be “scientific” by keeping in mind that it is used by startups to grow, quickly. Thus, the “scientific” here is not meant in the academic sense. Growth marketing is expected to unlock growth, quickly and with an often limited budget.

The Holmes and Rahe stress scale was developed by psychiatrists Thomas Holmes and Richard Rahe in 1967. The pair wanted to know if the most stressful life events could predict future illness. The Holmes and Rahe stress scale is a list of 43 stressful situations an individual can experience that can lead to illness. Understanding […]

Complex systems consist of many elements interacting with each other in a disordered way. This disorder makes the behavior of complex systems difficult to predict. To understand complex systems think of them as a system is where the whole is more than the sum of its parts.

In the context of an organization, cultural models are frameworks that define, shape, and influence corporate culture. Cultural models also provide some structure to a corporate culture that tends to be fluid and vulnerable to change. Once upon a time, most businesses utilized a hierarchical culture where various levels of management oversaw subordinates below them. Today, however, there exists a greater diversity in models as leaders realize the top-down approach is outdated in many industries and that success can be found elsewhere.

Asymmetric Betting Critical Thinking Divergent Thinking Vertical Thinking Convergent Thinking Brand Association Metaphorical Thinking Affirmations Cognitive Restructuring Second-Order Thinking Choice Overload Business Valuation Diagram Scaled Agile Framework Nadler-Tushman Congruence Model Toulmin Model RevOps OODA Loop MoSCoW Method SIPOC Diagram Six Thinking Hats Model Straw Man Fallacy Porter Operational Model Lightning Decision Jam Jobs-To-Be-Done Empathy Mapping […]

Tipping Point Leadership is a low-cost means of achieving a strategic shift in an organization by focusing on extremes. Here, the extremes may refer to small groups of people, acts, and activities that exert a disproportionate influence over business performance.

On FourWeekMBA one of the primary focuses is to dissect important trends happening in the business world, that have the potential to affect and reshape current industries. Thus, as a business person, you might want to keep an eye on the following trends identified in 2021, and that will continue to affect the business world […]

Launching your Podcast is no trivial thing, and you want to treat it as such. You want to make people anticipate it, make people’s mouth water to get them to view as soon as it drops. There are several methods of making an announcement and keeping your potential listeners in the loop. Existing Subscribers to […]

An organizational structure allows companies to shape their business model according to several criteria (like products, segments, geography and so on) that would enable information to flow through the organizational layers for better decision-making, cultural development, and goals alignment across employees, managers, and executives.

The bottom-dollar effect describes a tendency among consumers to dislike purchases that exhaust their remaining budget. If a consumer spends the last $50 in their bank account on dinner at a restaurant with friends, they may enjoy good food and good company. But after the meal, they feel dissatisfied because the meal has exhausted the last of their funds. Here, the negative emotions associated with running out of money have been applied to the meal itself. This is known as the bottom-dollar effect.

Outcome bias describes a tendency to evaluate a decision based on its outcome and not on the process by which the decision was reached. In other words, the quality of a decision is only determined once the outcome is known. Outcome bias occurs when a decision is based on the outcome of previous events without […]

Embodied AI refers to artificial intelligence systems integrated into physical entities, particularly humanoid robots, that can interact with and learn from their environments. By leveraging technologies such as sensors, motors, machine learning, and natural language processing, these systems can perceive, act, and collaborate with their surroundings. This enables humanoid robots to adapt, improve their behavior […]

Failed Project/Product Description and Purpose Key Reasons for Failure Lessons Learned (if any) Google+ (Google Plus) A social networking platform aiming to compete with Facebook. Low user engagement, privacy concerns, and competition from Facebook. The importance of addressing privacy concerns and staying competitive in the social media landscape. Google Wave A communication and collaboration platform. […]

Glassdoor is an employer review platform enabling millions of users to grade corporations. Glassdoor monetizes its platform through Job Listings ($249 per opening), Job Advertising (according to the number of jobs promoted), Employer Branding, and through the Glassdoor Review Intelligence (a brand's sentiment analysis platform).

The Dual-Operating System is a groundbreaking organizational framework that combines the stability and efficiency of a traditional hierarchical structure with the adaptability and innovation of a networked, agile system. This innovative approach to organizational design acknowledges that in today’s fast-paced and unpredictable business environment, traditional hierarchical structures alone may not be sufficient to foster agility […]

A centralized organizational structure is characterized by the concentration of decision-making authority and control within a single or limited group of top-level executives or leaders at the pinnacle of the organizational hierarchy. In this model, lower-level employees and departments typically have minimal autonomy in decision-making processes, as major choices and directives emanate from the upper […]

Value stream mapping uses flowcharts to analyze and then improve on the delivery of products and services. Value stream mapping (VSM) is based on the concept of value streams – which are a series of sequential steps that explain how a product or service is delivered to consumers.