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Edwards Deming: The Legacy He Deserves Is Not The One He’s Usually Given", "url": "https://www.douggarnett.com/business-and-strategy/w-edwards-deming-the-legacy-he-deserves-is-not-one-of-metric-mania/", "published_at": "2021-10-23T00:21:26+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c524-2f0c-731f-a64c-328c05cb26d2", "title": "Complexity in Business: No Simple Diagram Suffices When Complexity Affects Business", "url": "https://www.douggarnett.com/business-and-strategy/complexity-in-business-no-simple-diagram-suffices-when-complexity-affects-business/", "published_at": "2021-10-07T20:14:38+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c524-2f0c-731f-a64c-328c06885bcd", "title": "Complexity: Pandemic Lessons About Emergence & Ambiguity", "url": "https://www.douggarnett.com/business-and-strategy/complexity-pandemic-lessons-about-emergence-ambiguity/", "published_at": "2021-09-10T21:57:51+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c52f-c2d9-7253-bf9d-71a62ce93c55", "title": "Law of the Jungle: Does Amazon Avoid Antitrust Using Goodhart’s Law?", "url": "https://www.douggarnett.com/business-and-strategy/law-of-the-jungle-does-amazon-avoid-antitrust-using-goodharts-law/", "published_at": "2021-08-11T22:38:01+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c52f-c2d9-7253-bf9d-71a62d6439e7", "title": "Hypothesis: AI and Machine Learning Are Inherently Biased — It Can’t Be Otherwise", "url": "https://www.douggarnett.com/business-and-strategy/hypothesis-ai-and-machine-learning-are-inherently-biased-it-cant-be-otherwise/", "published_at": "2021-03-15T19:20:14+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c52f-c2d9-7253-bf9d-71a62d9672e7", "title": "2020, The Year of the Introvert. Things I Will Miss.", "url": "https://www.douggarnett.com/business-and-strategy/things-i-will-miss-from-2020/", "published_at": "2020-12-25T01:14:07+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c52f-c2d9-7253-bf9d-71a62dfc68a2", "title": "Complexity, Innovation, Veterinarians and the Surprising Costs of Innovation", "url": "https://www.douggarnett.com/business-and-strategy/complexity-innovation-veterinarians-and-the-surprising-costs-of-innovation/", "published_at": "2020-11-24T21:12:27+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c52f-c2d9-7253-bf9d-71a62e485509", "title": "No Product is an Island: Complexity, Innovation & Copiers", "url": "https://www.douggarnett.com/business-and-strategy/marketing/complexity-innovation-copiers-no-product-is-an-island/", "published_at": "2020-10-22T19:20:31+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c52f-c2d9-7253-bf9d-71a62ed4f3ae", "title": "A Skeptic Considers Amazon Q2 Results: The Reports We Get aren’t the Reports We Need", "url": "https://www.douggarnett.com/business-and-strategy/marketing/a-skeptic-considers-amazons-q2-2020-results/", "published_at": "2020-08-01T00:02:25+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c52f-c2d9-7253-bf9d-71a62f2d86fa", "title": "Lessons from the Past: Infomercials — The Only TV Advertising Viewers Chose to Watch", "url": "https://www.douggarnett.com/advertising/lessons-from-the-past-infomercials-the-only-tv-advertising-viewers-chose-to-watch/", "published_at": "2020-07-24T00:55:06+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c52f-c2d9-7253-bf9d-71a62faefe2c", "title": "The Complicated vs the Complex: Very Different Types of Experts", "url": "https://www.douggarnett.com/product-innovation/the-complicated-vs-the-complex-two-very-different-types-of-experts/", "published_at": "2020-07-04T04:30:09+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c52f-c2d9-7253-bf9d-71a630475ca7", "title": "Brain Science: How Procedure Shuts Down Innovative Thinking", "url": "https://www.douggarnett.com/business-and-strategy/brain-science-how-process-often-shuts-down-innovative-thinking/", "published_at": "2020-06-04T04:46:59+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c52f-c2d9-7253-bf9d-71a6310cedba", "title": "Saved by Communication — More In-depth Discussion", "url": "https://www.douggarnett.com/business-and-strategy/saved-by-communication-more-in-depth-discussion/", "published_at": "2020-05-22T18:51:03+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c53a-097c-7217-ab1e-2b2594e010da", "title": "Communication Has Been Our Most Effective Weapon for Fighting the Pandemic", "url": "https://www.douggarnett.com/business-and-strategy/communication-has-been-our-most-effective-weapon-for-fighting-the-pandemic/", "published_at": "2020-05-21T21:58:10+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c53a-097c-7217-ab1e-2b2595da2ee8", "title": "The Customer’s Journey Isn’t About You", "url": "https://www.douggarnett.com/advertising/the-customers-journey-isnt-about-you/", "published_at": "2020-05-19T21:25:49+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c53a-097c-7217-ab1e-2b2596573dde", "title": "Marketing Roles: The Conflict Between That Which is Important and That Which Companies PERCEIVE as Important", "url": "https://www.douggarnett.com/business-and-strategy/consumer-marketing/marketing-roles-the-conflict-between-that-which-is-important-and-that-which-companys-perceive-as-important/", "published_at": "2020-04-26T22:55:59+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c53a-097c-7217-ab1e-2b259687de6f", "title": "Pricing and Complexity (Part 3): The Tech Obsession with Cheap", "url": "https://www.douggarnett.com/retail/pricing-and-complexity-part-3-the-tech-obsession-with-cheap/", "published_at": "2020-04-21T23:31:18+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c53a-097c-7217-ab1e-2b25975da32f", "title": "Business Lessons from Complexity: Initial Stability vs. Final Stability with Canoes", "url": "https://www.douggarnett.com/retail/business-lessons-from-complexity-initial-stability-vs-final-stability-with-canoes/", "published_at": "2020-04-09T22:27:55+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c53a-097c-7217-ab1e-2b25978c8b48", "title": "What level of death makes self-inflicted economic disaster appropriate?", "url": "https://www.douggarnett.com/business-and-strategy/what-level-of-death-makes-self-inflicted-economic-disaster-appropriate/", "published_at": "2020-03-19T23:16:21+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c53a-097c-7217-ab1e-2b25987f0e51", "title": "Pricing and Complexity (Part 2): Conjoint Analysis Can Undercut Price for Innovations", "url": "https://www.douggarnett.com/business-and-strategy/pricing-and-complexity-part-2-conjoint-analysis-can-undercut-price-for-innovations/", "published_at": "2020-02-09T23:00:48+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c53a-097c-7217-ab1e-2b25993292cc", "title": "Where is Human Intelligence Critical in Your Business? The Question Which Will Matter Most in an “AI” Future", "url": "https://www.douggarnett.com/business-and-strategy/consumer-marketing/where-is-human-intelligence-most-critical-in-your-business-the-question-which-will-matter-most-in-an-ai-future/", "published_at": "2020-01-10T00:58:06+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c53a-097c-7217-ab1e-2b259964ce91", "title": "Pricing and Complexity (Part 1): Communication Affects the Pricing Wilderness", "url": "https://www.douggarnett.com/advertising/price-and-complexity-part-1-communication-affects-the-pricing-wilderness/", "published_at": "2019-12-31T23:58:02+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c53a-097c-7217-ab1e-2b2599bbea10", "title": "the Volkswagen Diesel (TDi) Scandal: Innovation vs Marketing Specs", "url": "https://www.douggarnett.com/retail/innovation-marketing-specs-the-volkswagen-diesel-tdi-scandal/", "published_at": "2019-08-28T23:13:08+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c543-52c2-7166-8781-9a121915acf6", "title": "Defend Focus Groups: A Critical Research Tool", "url": "https://www.douggarnett.com/marketing-research/consumer-research/defend-focus-groups-a-critical-research-tool/", "published_at": "2019-08-19T18:15:31+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c543-52c2-7166-8781-9a1219fc86b2", "title": "Startup Founders: Marketing is NOT a Step in a Process", "url": "https://www.douggarnett.com/business-and-strategy/consumer-marketing/startup-founders-marketing-is-not-a-stage/", "published_at": "2019-08-16T21:45:23+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c543-52c2-7166-8781-9a121abd50fd", "title": "Streaming and the Law of the Claw", "url": "https://www.douggarnett.com/advertising/streaming-and-the-law-of-the-claw/", "published_at": "2019-07-24T00:10:11+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c543-52c2-7166-8781-9a121b105233", "title": "Startup Founders: Stop Hiring Marketing Caricatures", "url": "https://www.douggarnett.com/business-and-strategy/consumer-marketing/startup-founders-stop-hiring-marketing-caricatures/", "published_at": "2019-06-24T23:45:35+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c543-52c2-7166-8781-9a121b6ea52b", "title": "Surviving Disruption (Part 3): Supercomputers, Floating Point Systems and Sun Microsystems", "url": "https://www.douggarnett.com/uncategorized/surviving-disruption-supercomputers-floating-point-systems-and-sun-microsystems/", "published_at": "2019-06-03T17:19:21+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c543-52c2-7166-8781-9a121ba78d74", "title": "Effies and The Tide Super Bowl Ad: Great Start but Execution Drops the Ball", "url": "https://www.douggarnett.com/advertising/effies-and-the-tide-super-bowl-ad-great-start-but-execution-drops-the-ball/", "published_at": "2019-05-31T20:20:14+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c543-52c2-7166-8781-9a121c020979", "title": "Startup Founders: Marketing is Harder Than You Know", "url": "https://www.douggarnett.com/business-and-strategy/consumer-marketing/startup-founders-marketing-is-harder-than-you-know/", "published_at": "2019-05-14T18:14:23+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c543-52c2-7166-8781-9a121cede73c", "title": "Surviving Disruption, Part 2: Kodak Died. FujiFilm Thrived. Why?", "url": "https://www.douggarnett.com/vertical-markets/consumer-electronics/surviving-disruption-part-2-kodak-died-fujifilm-thrived-why/", "published_at": "2019-04-30T20:15:52+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c543-52c2-7166-8781-9a121d8e1a71", "title": "Do What Matters. Innovation Follows.", "url": "https://www.douggarnett.com/product-innovation/do-what-matters-innovation-follows/", "published_at": "2019-04-12T01:13:22+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c543-52c2-7166-8781-9a121e61ebb9", "title": "Brands Hit Home Run with April Fools’ Day!!!", "url": "https://www.douggarnett.com/advertising/brand-advertising/brands-hit-home-run-with-april-fools-day/", "published_at": "2019-04-01T18:33:35+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c54c-3546-70d4-931b-f4c799bb1b32", "title": "AI & Big Data Question: What Happened to the Distinction Between Primary and Secondary Research?", "url": "https://www.douggarnett.com/uncategorized/ai-big-data-question-what-happened-to-the-distinction-between-primary-and-secondary-research/", "published_at": "2019-03-22T16:54:32+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c54c-3546-70d4-931b-f4c799bdddbe", "title": "Surviving Disruption. Kodak Storytellers Get It Wrong; Things We Can Learn from Kodak, Fuji, Supercomputers and NordicTrack.", "url": "https://www.douggarnett.com/product-innovation/surviving-disruption-kodak-storytellers-get-it-wrong-things-we-can-learn-from-kodak-fuji-supercomputers-and-nordictrack/", "published_at": "2019-03-12T17:34:32+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c54c-3546-70d4-931b-f4c79a21d355", "title": "7 Secondary Diseases that Kill Innovation: The Departments of No", "url": "https://www.douggarnett.com/uncategorized/7-secondary-diseases-that-kill-innovation-the-departments-of-no/", "published_at": "2019-03-01T17:47:07+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c54c-3546-70d4-931b-f4c79ab1a835", "title": "Seeing the Forest of Success Despite the KPI Trees: Errors in Measuring Market Tests", "url": "https://www.douggarnett.com/uncategorized/seeing-the-forest-of-success-despite-the-kpi-trees-errors-in-measuring-market-tests/", "published_at": "2019-02-26T22:03:47+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c54c-3546-70d4-931b-f4c79ac59b94", "title": "7 Secondary Diseases that Kill Innovation: Problems of People, Politics, and Culture", "url": "https://www.douggarnett.com/business-and-strategy/consumer-marketing/7-secondary-diseases-that-kill-innovation-problems-of-people-politics-and-culture/", "published_at": "2019-02-11T17:43:39+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c54c-3546-70d4-931b-f4c79b918fee", "title": "Strategic Failure and Management by KPI: Management Errors Which Kill Innovation (Four Deadly Diseases, Part 2)", "url": "https://www.douggarnett.com/product-innovation/strategic-failure-and-management-by-kpi-management-errors-which-kill-innovation-four-deadly-diseases-part-2/", "published_at": "2019-01-11T20:04:51+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c54c-3546-70d4-931b-f4c79bdea567", "title": "Marketing Failure & Market Research Error: Two Unspoken Reasons Innovation Fails. (Four Deadly Diseases, Part 1)", "url": "https://www.douggarnett.com/marketing-research/marketing-failure-market-research-error-two-unspoken-reasons-innovations-fail-four-deadly-diseases-part-1/", "published_at": "2019-01-02T21:13:45+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c54c-3546-70d4-931b-f4c79cbe00a8", "title": "The Incredible Waste of Re-targeted Ads", "url": "https://www.douggarnett.com/uncategorized/the-incredible-waste-of-re-targeted-ads/", "published_at": "2018-12-11T18:32:41+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c54c-3546-70d4-931b-f4c79d9ebbae", "title": "Innovation is not Complicated – It’s Complex. So is the Challenge of Marketing Innovative Products.", "url": "https://www.douggarnett.com/uncategorized/innovation-is-not-complicated-its-complex-so-is-the-challenge-of-marketing-innovative-products/", "published_at": "2018-11-20T20:57:41+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c54c-3546-70d4-931b-f4c79e5d9ae9", "title": "Bricks & Clicks: Why Store Presence Increases Online Sales in a Market Area", "url": "https://www.douggarnett.com/uncategorized/bricks-clicks-why-store-presence-increases-online-sales-in-a-market-area/", "published_at": "2018-11-16T22:51:02+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c554-991c-72e3-b81c-e773b374a768", "title": "Did Dollar Shave Club Hide a Failing Business Behind Investor Success?", "url": "https://www.douggarnett.com/vertical-markets/consumer-goods/did-dollar-shave-club-hide-a-failing-business-behind-investor-riches/", "published_at": "2018-11-07T22:04:42+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c554-991c-72e3-b81c-e773b465da9d", "title": "Failure is NOT a Goal for Innovators", "url": "https://www.douggarnett.com/vertical-markets/consumer-electronics/failure-is-not-a-goal-for-innovators/", "published_at": "2018-11-01T00:04:22+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c554-991c-72e3-b81c-e773b51c5f1f", "title": "Focus on Measured ROI Can Reduce ROI from Innovative Products", "url": "https://www.douggarnett.com/product-innovation/focus-on-measured-roi-can-reduce-roi-from-innovative-products/", "published_at": "2018-10-24T23:40:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c554-991c-72e3-b81c-e773b52af192", "title": "When the Innovative Choice is Not to Innovate", "url": "https://www.douggarnett.com/product-innovation/when-the-innovative-choice-is-not-to-innovate/", "published_at": "2018-10-16T16:44:01+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c554-991c-72e3-b81c-e773b5913bb7", "title": "Experiential Retail is Overhyped & Misunderstood: The good – and bad – of REI, Barnes & Noble, Ross, Orvis, ACE, and Catching your Dinner", "url": "https://www.douggarnett.com/retail/experiential-retail-is-overhyped-misunderstood-the-good-and-bad-of-rei-barnes-noble-ross-orvis-ace-and-catching-your-dinner/", "published_at": "2018-10-12T00:16:48+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c554-991c-72e3-b81c-e773b6200d2c", "title": "Value and Risk of Marketing Science and Innovation Studies", "url": "https://www.douggarnett.com/business-and-strategy/consumer-marketing/value-and-risk-of-marketing-science-and-innovation-studies/", "published_at": "2018-09-25T18:51:20+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c554-991c-72e3-b81c-e773b6896137", "title": "Diagnosing the Purpose Disease: The problem is not what you think", "url": "https://www.douggarnett.com/business-and-strategy/consumer-marketing/diagnosing-the-purpose-disease-the-problem-is-not-what-you-think/", "published_at": "2018-09-19T23:09:07+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c554-991c-72e3-b81c-e773b77c67de", "title": "Disruption Fear Distracts from Innovation. The Innovator’s Dilemma Re-visited.", "url": "https://www.douggarnett.com/uncategorized/disruption-fear-distracts-from-innovation-the-innovators-dilemma-re-visited/", "published_at": "2018-07-12T00:43:48+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c554-991c-72e3-b81c-e773b7f5ea32", "title": "The Texture of Innovation", "url": "https://www.douggarnett.com/product-innovation/the-texture-of-innovation/", "published_at": "2018-07-03T16:57:24+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c554-991c-72e3-b81c-e773b818fe09", "title": "Innovation is not a tame practice", "url": "https://www.douggarnett.com/uncategorized/innovation-is-not-a-tame-practice/", "published_at": "2018-06-28T00:33:59+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c55c-fc8e-726c-9efa-e25b8c52ecdd", "title": "The Sad Straw Man Attacks of “Jobs to be Done” Evangelists. #JTBD", "url": "https://www.douggarnett.com/product-innovation/the-sad-straw-man-attacks-of-jobs-to-be-done-evangelists-jtbd/", "published_at": "2018-06-21T00:38:15+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c55c-fc8e-726c-9efa-e25b8ca1a12a", "title": "Past Browsing Does Not Indicate Future Purchase", "url": "https://www.douggarnett.com/advertising/past-browsing-does-not-indicate-future-purchase/", "published_at": "2018-06-05T00:46:52+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c55c-fc8e-726c-9efa-e25b8d3c0dd5", "title": "Thumbs Down for the “Jobs to Be Done” Innovation Book by Anthony Ulwick", "url": "https://www.douggarnett.com/product-innovation/thumbs-down-for-the-jobs-to-be-done-innovation-book-by-tony-ulwick/", "published_at": "2018-05-30T20:20:09+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c55c-fc8e-726c-9efa-e25b8dba023b", "title": "Are Robots a Way to Avoid Critical Business Questions?", "url": "https://www.douggarnett.com/big-data-and-technology/is-enthusiasm-for-ai-driven-robots-a-way-to-avoid-the-truly-critical-business-questions/", "published_at": "2018-05-03T20:15:26+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c55c-fc8e-726c-9efa-e25b8e21a692", "title": "Amazon Q4 2018: Some Things Get Better While the Worse Gets Worse", "url": "https://www.douggarnett.com/uncategorized/amazon-q4-2018-some-things-get-better-while-the-worse-gets-worse/", "published_at": "2018-05-01T23:41:03+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c55c-fc8e-726c-9efa-e25b8e40e999", "title": "Does Ford Motor Company Want to Be Like Sears?", "url": "https://www.douggarnett.com/uncategorized/does-ford-motor-company-want-to-be-like-sears/", "published_at": "2018-04-26T18:13:20+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c55c-fc8e-726c-9efa-e25b8f35bb27", "title": "Innovation Lessons I Learned by Drawing and Painting", "url": "https://www.douggarnett.com/uncategorized/innovation-lessons-i-learned-by-drawing-and-painting/", "published_at": "2018-04-06T11:00:11+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c55c-fc8e-726c-9efa-e25b8f916043", "title": "“Business as Usual” Marketing Fails Another Innovative Product: Lithium Ion Batteries for Power Tools", "url": "https://www.douggarnett.com/uncategorized/business-as-usual-marketing-fails-another-innovative-product-lithium-ion-batteries-for-cordless-drills/", "published_at": "2018-01-16T19:52:48+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c55c-fc8e-726c-9efa-e25b8fda9980", "title": "Marketing’s “Dash to Simplicity” Hurts Innovation", "url": "https://www.douggarnett.com/vertical-markets/hardware-tools/marketings-dash-to-simplicity-hurts-innovation/", "published_at": "2017-12-12T01:19:20+00:00" } ] posts Claim your blog
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A Historian’s View. Complexity & Knowledge, Part 3original ↗
23 Sept 2026
The Scientific Method, the Conventional Paradigm, and Complex Principles. Complexity & Knowledge, Part 2original ↗
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Complexity Cannot be Understood with Typical Business Research. Complexity & Knowledge, Part 1original ↗
31 Aug 2026
Principles for Minimizing the Damage of System Assumptions: Complexity and the Paradox of Systems Science, Part IVoriginal ↗
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Movie Theaters and Shopping Malls: Complexity & the Paradox of Systems Science, Part IIIoriginal ↗
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The Paradox and The Strategist: Complexity & the Paradox of Systems Science, Part IIoriginal ↗
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Complexity & The Paradox of Systems Science, Part Ioriginal ↗
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Complexity in Action: Why Paradigms Matter in Businessoriginal ↗
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The Complexity Paradigm. Available January 2027. Pre-order today.original ↗
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Complexity and Prediction, Part 2 of 2: Complex Forces Make Prediction Unreliableoriginal ↗
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Complexity and Prediction, Part 1 of 2: The SFI Time Series Prediction Competitionoriginal ↗
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Complexity and Market Research: The Important Role of Focus Groupsoriginal ↗
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Marketing Fundamentals: Purpose, Three Roles, & Four P’soriginal ↗
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About My Upcoming Book: The Fundamental Complexity of Businessoriginal ↗
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Complexity: The Dynamic Uncertainty of Emergenceoriginal ↗
1 Aug 2025
Complexity: Small Giants and the Myths of Growthoriginal ↗
11 Jul 2025
Complexity & Feedback Loops: What Few Understand About Bureaucratic Wasteoriginal ↗
16 Jun 2025
Complexity and Experimentation: The Rebellious Bee.original ↗
12 Jun 2025
Complexity. Self-organization and Emergent Organization.original ↗
9 May 2025
Complexity. Self-Organization vs. Technocracy. The Messy-ness of Chesterton’s Fence (Part 2 of 2)original ↗
6 May 2025
Complexity. Self-Organization vs. Technocracy. The Rice Fields of Bali (Part 1 of 2)original ↗
29 Apr 2025
Complexity vs Precise Language in Businessoriginal ↗
31 Mar 2025
Differentiation & Distinction, Part III: Much Which Matters Cannot Be Measuredoriginal ↗
8 Mar 2025
Differentiation & Distinction, Part II: The Emergent Decision to Purchaseoriginal ↗
3 Mar 2025
Differentiation & Distinction, Part I: The Error Ignoring Timeoriginal ↗
21 Feb 2025

2024

America is the Victim of Trump’s Election 2024 Conoriginal ↗
9 Nov 2024
Election Instability Amid Complexityoriginal ↗
4 Jul 2024
The Managerial vs Complexity Ontologies. Philosophical Assumptions Matter in Business Success.original ↗
29 Feb 2024
The Unspoken Limits of Business Philosophy. Fortunately, the World Is Far Bigger.original ↗
28 Feb 2024
Half the money I spend on bureaucracy is wasted; the trouble is I don’t know which half.original ↗
27 Jan 2024

2023

Humans are More Unique than the Existential Dread of AI Suggestsoriginal ↗
23 Jun 2023
Complexity: Bias and Reasoningoriginal ↗
25 Feb 2023

2022

Complexity in Business: New Fundamentalsoriginal ↗
1 Aug 2022
Complexity: Science, History, and what Business Needs from Researchoriginal ↗
7 Mar 2022
Complexity & Business incl. Mintzberg, Volkswagen, the Vietnam War, Strategy, and Bureaucracyoriginal ↗
21 Feb 2022
Complexity: When the Whole is More Than or Different Than a Sum of the Partsoriginal ↗
11 Feb 2022
Complexity vs Scientific Error: Masks in the Pandemicoriginal ↗
6 Feb 2022

2021

W. Edwards Deming: The Legacy He Deserves Is Not The One He’s Usually Givenoriginal ↗
23 Oct 2021
Complexity in Business: No Simple Diagram Suffices When Complexity Affects Businessoriginal ↗
7 Oct 2021
Complexity: Pandemic Lessons About Emergence & Ambiguityoriginal ↗
10 Sept 2021
Law of the Jungle: Does Amazon Avoid Antitrust Using Goodhart’s Law?original ↗
11 Aug 2021
Hypothesis: AI and Machine Learning Are Inherently Biased — It Can’t Be Otherwiseoriginal ↗
15 Mar 2021

2020

2020, The Year of the Introvert. Things I Will Miss.original ↗
25 Dec 2020
Complexity, Innovation, Veterinarians and the Surprising Costs of Innovationoriginal ↗
24 Nov 2020
No Product is an Island: Complexity, Innovation & Copiersoriginal ↗
22 Oct 2020
A Skeptic Considers Amazon Q2 Results: The Reports We Get aren’t the Reports We Needoriginal ↗
1 Aug 2020
Lessons from the Past: Infomercials — The Only TV Advertising Viewers Chose to Watchoriginal ↗
24 Jul 2020
The Complicated vs the Complex: Very Different Types of Expertsoriginal ↗
4 Jul 2020
Brain Science: How Procedure Shuts Down Innovative Thinkingoriginal ↗
4 Jun 2020
Saved by Communication — More In-depth Discussionoriginal ↗
22 May 2020
Communication Has Been Our Most Effective Weapon for Fighting the Pandemicoriginal ↗
21 May 2020
The Customer’s Journey Isn’t About Youoriginal ↗
19 May 2020
Marketing Roles: The Conflict Between That Which is Important and That Which Companies PERCEIVE as Importantoriginal ↗
26 Apr 2020
Pricing and Complexity (Part 3): The Tech Obsession with Cheaporiginal ↗
21 Apr 2020
Business Lessons from Complexity: Initial Stability vs. Final Stability with Canoesoriginal ↗
9 Apr 2020
What level of death makes self-inflicted economic disaster appropriate?original ↗
19 Mar 2020
Pricing and Complexity (Part 2): Conjoint Analysis Can Undercut Price for Innovationsoriginal ↗
9 Feb 2020
Where is Human Intelligence Critical in Your Business? The Question Which Will Matter Most in an “AI” Futureoriginal ↗
10 Jan 2020

2019

Pricing and Complexity (Part 1): Communication Affects the Pricing Wildernessoriginal ↗
31 Dec 2019
the Volkswagen Diesel (TDi) Scandal: Innovation vs Marketing Specsoriginal ↗
28 Aug 2019
Defend Focus Groups: A Critical Research Tooloriginal ↗
19 Aug 2019
Startup Founders: Marketing is NOT a Step in a Processoriginal ↗
16 Aug 2019
Streaming and the Law of the Claworiginal ↗
24 Jul 2019
Startup Founders: Stop Hiring Marketing Caricaturesoriginal ↗
24 Jun 2019
Surviving Disruption (Part 3): Supercomputers, Floating Point Systems and Sun Microsystemsoriginal ↗
3 Jun 2019
Effies and The Tide Super Bowl Ad: Great Start but Execution Drops the Balloriginal ↗
31 May 2019
Startup Founders: Marketing is Harder Than You Knoworiginal ↗
14 May 2019
Surviving Disruption, Part 2: Kodak Died. FujiFilm Thrived. Why?original ↗
30 Apr 2019
Do What Matters. Innovation Follows.original ↗
12 Apr 2019
Brands Hit Home Run with April Fools’ Day!!!original ↗
1 Apr 2019
AI & Big Data Question: What Happened to the Distinction Between Primary and Secondary Research?original ↗
22 Mar 2019
Surviving Disruption. Kodak Storytellers Get It Wrong; Things We Can Learn from Kodak, Fuji, Supercomputers and NordicTrack.original ↗
12 Mar 2019
7 Secondary Diseases that Kill Innovation: The Departments of Nooriginal ↗
1 Mar 2019
Seeing the Forest of Success Despite the KPI Trees: Errors in Measuring Market Testsoriginal ↗
26 Feb 2019
7 Secondary Diseases that Kill Innovation: Problems of People, Politics, and Cultureoriginal ↗
11 Feb 2019
Strategic Failure and Management by KPI: Management Errors Which Kill Innovation (Four Deadly Diseases, Part 2)original ↗
11 Jan 2019
Marketing Failure & Market Research Error: Two Unspoken Reasons Innovation Fails. (Four Deadly Diseases, Part 1)original ↗
2 Jan 2019

2018

The Incredible Waste of Re-targeted Adsoriginal ↗
11 Dec 2018
Innovation is not Complicated – It’s Complex. So is the Challenge of Marketing Innovative Products.original ↗
20 Nov 2018
Bricks & Clicks: Why Store Presence Increases Online Sales in a Market Areaoriginal ↗
16 Nov 2018
Did Dollar Shave Club Hide a Failing Business Behind Investor Success?original ↗
7 Nov 2018
Failure is NOT a Goal for Innovatorsoriginal ↗
1 Nov 2018
Focus on Measured ROI Can Reduce ROI from Innovative Productsoriginal ↗
24 Oct 2018
When the Innovative Choice is Not to Innovateoriginal ↗
16 Oct 2018
Experiential Retail is Overhyped & Misunderstood: The good – and bad – of REI, Barnes & Noble, Ross, Orvis, ACE, and Catching your Dinneroriginal ↗
12 Oct 2018
Value and Risk of Marketing Science and Innovation Studiesoriginal ↗
25 Sept 2018
Diagnosing the Purpose Disease: The problem is not what you thinkoriginal ↗
19 Sept 2018
Disruption Fear Distracts from Innovation. The Innovator’s Dilemma Re-visited.original ↗
12 Jul 2018
The Texture of Innovationoriginal ↗
3 Jul 2018
Innovation is not a tame practiceoriginal ↗
28 Jun 2018
The Sad Straw Man Attacks of “Jobs to be Done” Evangelists. #JTBDoriginal ↗
21 Jun 2018
Past Browsing Does Not Indicate Future Purchaseoriginal ↗
5 Jun 2018
Thumbs Down for the “Jobs to Be Done” Innovation Book by Anthony Ulwickoriginal ↗
30 May 2018
Are Robots a Way to Avoid Critical Business Questions?original ↗
3 May 2018
Amazon Q4 2018: Some Things Get Better While the Worse Gets Worseoriginal ↗
1 May 2018
Does Ford Motor Company Want to Be Like Sears?original ↗
26 Apr 2018
Innovation Lessons I Learned by Drawing and Paintingoriginal ↗
6 Apr 2018
“Business as Usual” Marketing Fails Another Innovative Product: Lithium Ion Batteries for Power Toolsoriginal ↗
16 Jan 2018

2017

Marketing’s “Dash to Simplicity” Hurts Innovationoriginal ↗
12 Dec 2017
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