How the Algorithm Hijacked Monkey's Brain
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You're not lazy—you're trapped in the algorithm's perfect illusion. This investigation reveals why Monkey watches 10 hours of tutorials but can't code "Hello World." The culprit: platforms engineered for engagement, not education, exploiting the gap between information exposure and skill acquisition.
Strategy: How Disney Leveraged Adults' Nostalgia
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Disney didn't accidentally create fanatics who spend $35,000 on 10-day vacations—they engineered them over 40 years using principles borrowed from religion and psychology. This investigation reveals how Michael Eisner's failed "age decompression" strategy evolved into Bob Iger's acquisition spree, transforming Disney from entertainment company into emotional monopoly.
Seeing What's Next: Using Theories of Innovation to Predict
Clayton Christensen's protégé reveals how theory transforms guesswork into foresight. Scott D. Anthony unpacks the frameworks from "Seeing What's Next"—showing why Western Union dismissed Bell's telephone as a toy, why Tesla confounds traditional disruption theory, and how law firms are being dismantled despite record profits today.
Why Strategy Documents Lack Insights
🚀 Tired of generic, uninspiring strategic plans that go nowhere? Most companies fill out strategy templates year after year—only to end up with the same mediocre results. Why? Because real strategy requires deep insights, not just checklists.
Shared Value as Corporate Strategy
**Why Corporate Strategy Leaders Rewatch This 38-Minute Michael Porter Shared Value Framework** Shared value profit promise: "Shared value goes beyond being generous goes beyond avoiding harm stopping things counterproductive, we can actually add value in business societal issues meeting most important societal needs, key that unlocks added value actually doing what businesses do approaching task using business model making profit, if tackle societal needs business model generates profit achieved most powerful force ever get changing world, can scale serve millions billions people solve problems not just make little band-aids actually solve most important problems world."
The Rise of Airbnb: From Airbeds to Billions
**Why Timing-Based Startup Strategists Rewatch This 8-Minute Airbnb Crisis Origin Story** Airbnb founders "rent increased by 25% due next month, for 2 unemployed design students looming deadline would almost certainly make them homeless"—launched "AirbedAndBreakfast.com for $80 offered designers place to stay for weekend's event."
The Secret Business of Crime Chasers/Nightcrawlers
**Why Freelance Media Economics Strategists Rewatch This 33-Minute LA Nightcrawler Reality** Nightcrawlers work "9pm to 4am listening for specific codes across four dedicated radios police fire medical and Highway Patrol" yet "85% of job is just sitting waiting and listening, 10% chasing calls that go nowhere, just 5% actually filming editing and packaging something deliverable." Business model: "pay per use, media buy these stories and pay every time use footage in broadcast"—each "hit can range between $100 to $1,000" with "average story gets between 2 to 20 hits" but "Zach's income anywhere from $0 to $15,000 every month."
Why BuzzFeed and VICE Went Extinct
**Why Family Conglomerate Strategists Rewatch This 28-Minute Hyundai Governance Paralysis Exposé** Hyundai's "$7.6 billion electric vehicle factory in Georgia raided by US federal agents, 475 workers detained for being in US illegally, more than 300 South Korean nationals"—yet company "generated 175 trillion won about $122B revenue up 7.7%." Core crisis: "circular shareholding structure allows Chung family maintain control through surprisingly small personal stakes, over 4 trillion won around $2.9B trapped in cross holdings, family cannot easily sell without breaking control structure making nearly impossible to raise cash for very taxes system designed to minimize."
Why Hyundai Is in Trouble?
**Why Family Conglomerate Strategists Rewatch This 28-Minute Hyundai Governance Paralysis Exposé** Hyundai's "$7.6 billion electric vehicle factory in Georgia raided by US federal agents, 475 workers detained for being in US illegally, more than 300 South Korean nationals"—yet company "generated 175 trillion won about $122B revenue up 7.7%." Core crisis: "circular shareholding structure allows Chung family maintain control through surprisingly small personal stakes, over 4 trillion won around $2.9B trapped in cross holdings, family cannot easily sell without breaking control structure making nearly impossible to raise cash for very taxes system designed to minimize."
Why 99% of Small Businesses in Japan Could Be Wiped Out
**Why Succession Planning Strategists Rewatch This 21-Minute Japanese SME Extinction Crisis** "Every 15 minutes Japanese business shutting down" yet "most small businesses about to shut down are actually profitable, businesses themselves healthy and sustainable, no rational reason why should be closing"—"even 2021 over 42,000 businesses closed despite being in black, by 2025 estimated 630,000 businesses risk closure." Core crisis: "over 60% SME owners now over age 60, nearly half have no successor, estimated by 2030 around 1.27 million small businesses could close due to succession failure, over 6.5 million jobs lost, 22 trillion Yen about $150B USD erased from GDP."
The Untold Story of Red Bull
**Why Brand Ownership Strategists Rewatch This 11-Minute Red Bull Empire Blueprint** Felix Baumgartner's October 2012 skydive from "24 miles into sky, 100,000 feet above ground, broke sound barrier with just his body" cost Red Bull "over $50 million, project seven years in making"—generated "$6 billion in revenue thanks to Stratos project, number will only increase with time, unique advantages of owning world record anytime event discussed Red Bull profits."
How Bad CEOs Destroyed Intel
**Why Leadership Selection Strategists Rewatch This 20-Minute Intel CEO Archetype Failure** Intel held "estimated 90% share of global personal computer CPU market" in 2000 yet "revenue Q1 2020 was $20B, Q1 2025 12.2B"—laying off "25,000 employees out of total 109,500, even bailed out by US government who now taken stake in former giant." Core problem: "since 2013 Intel been led by CEOs that were not product centric, probably biggest mistake, sector where dominance attained by having best fastest newest most efficient product."