Corporate Capture: Overlooked Block to Startup Success
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Bob Barker
Jan 11, 20232 min read
How to Prevent Business Entropy
The purpose, vision, and direction of a successful business can decay over time. Preventing “business entropy” increases agility and...
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Bob Barker
Jan 2, 20234 min read
How to Create a Strategic Positioning Statement
Once a large consulting firm hired me to help their client, a multinational environmental firm that needed to define the value their...
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Bob Barker
Dec 5, 20226 min read
2023: Four Tech Industry Principles Will Transform Your Non-Tech Company
Mark Andreesen wrote a famous blog post in 2011 called "Why Software is Eating the World" that correctly predicted the digital...
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Bob Barker
Oct 10, 20221 min read
Why Do CEOs Hire Corporate Strategic Advisors?
“Well-understood problems have well-understood solutions. CEOs seldom wrestle with simple problems.” Corporate advisors who help CEOs...
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Bob Barker
Mar 31, 20223 min read
What's a Corporate Strategic Advisor?
Several years ago, an experienced public CEO asked for help in redirecting his company’s market strategy. In setting up an email...
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Bob Barker
Dec 3, 20214 min read
Nonprofits Are Businesses Too
Corporate Strategic Advisor Matt Kouri explains how nonprofits relate to for-profit businesses. Most folks do not associate the nonprofit...
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Bob Barker
Dec 3, 20214 min read
Partnering for Growth in a Post-Pandemic World
Corporate Strategic Advisor Bob Barker shares how the value of partnering has grown. Restarting the economy following the financial...
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