Watching a founder grow a business is like watching someone start a campfire – brilliant returns can be generated when the spark grows into a fire, but dangerous if the fire spirals out of control. From Henry Ford to Steve Jobs, and more recently Elon Musk and Richard White, history’s...

In an increasingly competitive environment where customers have more access and more choice, it becomes even more critical to create a unique proposition that elevates a company from its competitors. The largest companies in the world have this — Apple positions itself as luxury tech; Tesla sets itself apart as...

The first time I discovered a company that defied conventional business wisdom, it wasn’t a flashy tech startup or a corporate giant — it was a family-owned wine maker in rural Australia. At the time I was working at a Big 4 accounting firm and they were my client during...

During a conversation with the management team at Reply SpA, an Italian technology consultancy firm, I discovered a distinctive approach to workforce strategy. Reply competes with much larger rivals by implementing a disaggregated business model and emphasising talent mobility in its workforce strategy. Contrary to expectations, Reply, an agile consultancy,...