Comments on: What a Difference a Week Makes… http://thefuturevalueofbusiness.com/what-a-difference-a-week-makes.htm Using Business Intelligence to make data meaningful and solve business problems. Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:39:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: AndyErickson http://thefuturevalueofbusiness.com/what-a-difference-a-week-makes.htm/comment-page-1#comment-294 AndyErickson Fri, 23 May 2008 18:16:56 +0000 http://thefuturevalueofbusiness.com/?p=129#comment-294 Wow, great post, Andrew. This breaks the Hedgehog concept, and the whole case study is right out of Good To Great. Schultz looks like he definitely got sidetracked. I guess he fell into the same trap I fall into with personal investing, i.e. no matter how many times the lesson has been documented and the ability to learn from history stares right in our faces, we still seem to think that somehow our situation is different. We should keep sticking to the simple concepts that we know best. Wow, great post, Andrew. This breaks the Hedgehog concept, and the whole case study is right out of Good To Great. Schultz looks like he definitely got sidetracked. I guess he fell into the same trap I fall into with personal investing, i.e. no matter how many times the lesson has been documented and the ability to learn from history stares right in our faces, we still seem to think that somehow our situation is different. We should keep sticking to the simple concepts that we know best.

]]> By: Suzanne Lorch http://thefuturevalueofbusiness.com/what-a-difference-a-week-makes.htm/comment-page-1#comment-267 Suzanne Lorch Wed, 21 May 2008 03:35:24 +0000 http://thefuturevalueofbusiness.com/?p=129#comment-267 As a Starbucks consumer who just loves their coffee (venti/house, room for milk - no double skim half-caf soy lattes for me) - glad to see they woke up and 'smelled the coffee'. Sometimes it's better not to be all things to all people...... As a Starbucks consumer who just loves their coffee (venti/house, room for milk – no double skim half-caf soy lattes for me) – glad to see they woke up and ‘smelled the coffee’.

Sometimes it’s better not to be all things to all people……

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