Adam Hartung

Adam Hartung
Born (1957-03-15) March 15, 1957
Watchhorn, Oklahoma
Nationality United States
Alma mater Wichita State University  (B.B.A)
Harvard Business School (MBA)
Occupation Speaker & Business Consultant
Known for Growth - Dealing with Market Shifts - Forbes
Website www.thephoenixprinciple.com

Adam Hartung (born March 15, 1957) is Managing Partner of Spark Partners,[1] author, columnist, business consultant and speaker.[2] He is best known for his Leadership column[3] in Forbes. Hartung is the author of Create Marketplace Disruption: How to Stay Ahead of the Competition[4] published in 2008 by FT Press.

Early life

Hartung was born in Watchhorn, Oklahoma. He holds a B.B.A., suma cum laude, Departmental Honors at Wichita State University (1979), and an MBA with Distinction at Harvard Business School (1982).

Career

Hartung began his career as an entrepreneur, selling the first general-purpose computing platform to use the 8080 microprocessor when he was an undergraduate. Today, he writes, consults and speaks worldwide.

Hartung’s book, Create Marketplace Disruption: How to Stay Ahead of the Competition, aims to help leaders and managers create evergreen organizations that produce above-average returns.[5] In this book, Hartung introduced the idea of the “status quo police” to describe the functions or departments in a company that work to maintain “the success formula” which has made the company successful. He used this idea in his Forbes columns.[6][7]

In a May 2012 column in Forbes magazine, Hartung described Steve Ballmer, then CEO of Microsoft, as "the worst CEO of a large publicly traded American company", Hartung wrote that he had "steered Microsoft out of some of the fastest growing and most lucrative tech markets (mobile music, handsets and tablets)".[8]

Hartung is currently Managing Partner of Spark Partners, a strategy and transformation consultancy. Previously, he spent eight years as a Partner in the consulting arm of Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) where he led their efforts in Intellectual Capital Development and e-business. He has also been a strategist with the Boston Consulting Group, and an executive with PepsiCo and DuPont in the areas of strategic planning and business development.[9]

Hartung is a columnist for Forbes magazine, focusing on leadership and business growth.

Quote

“Don't try to think outside the box, get outside the box, then think!” [10] recognizes the difficulty of creating innovative ideas when confined by the limits of the current situation or company.

References

  1. ↑ Spark Partners
  2. ↑ "Speakers: Adam Hartung". National Speakers Bureau. Retrieved 9 July 2012.
  3. ↑ Leadership column
  4. ↑ Amazon.com: Create Marketplace Disruption: How to Stay Ahead of the Competition (9780132343916): Adam Hartung: Books
  5. ↑ "Create Marketplace Disruption: How to Stay Ahead of the Competition". Pearson Education, FT Press. Retrieved 9 July 2012.
  6. ↑ "Fire the Status Quo Police".
  7. ↑ "The Innovation Killers-The Status Quo Police".
  8. ↑ "Oops! Five CEOs Who Should Have Already Been Fired (Cisco, GE, WalMart, Sears, Microsoft)".
  9. ↑ "Adam Hartung - About me". Forbes.com. Forbes Magazine. Retrieved 9 July 2012.
  10. ↑ "Create Marketplace Disruption Ch 5, pg.119".

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