Culture

In just 20 years, Amazon has grown from an online startup focusing on selling books, to a devastating multi-platform, multi-industry technological disruptor, predicted to be worth $3 trillion by 2026.

Recent research by the Conference Board asked executives across the world what their ‘greatest concerns’ were – the top two answers, surprisingly, were not external factors, but instead were:

(Or why ‘the way we do things round here’ stops us from doing things around here!)

25th January 2013 – An interesting thing happened today. Exactly one year previously, Apple was crowned the world’s most valuable company – today it lost that position to Exxon. To many, this might be dismissed as an insignificant blip.