Strategy

The Missing Prompt

The Missing Prompt: The One That Makes the Other Nine Worth Running

A genre of social media post promises the prompts that replace McKinsey: the SWOT, the market analysis, the deck. Nine prompts, sometimes ten. Every list I have seen omits the same one, the prompt that checks whether the AI got any of it wrong. That omission is the tell. The deck was never the product. The checking was, and it still has to be human.

Apple’s India Strategy: Outsmarting Short-Term Skeptics

Why managers should ignore short term stock analysts the apple india strategy example

The latest news reports suggest Apple intends to source US phone supply in India to reduce tariff effects. Naturally, this news has attracted negative analyst coverage. The most bearish says it probably won’t work well. Earlier that week, he had cut his stock price target to the lowest of all analysts. Is he right, or missing the big picture?