The most damaging error for a business is to run in administration mode. It’s the worst way to run a business. Yet it’s given the highest accolade: the greatest credential you can get is an MBA, a …
Value Creation vs. Value Capture: Reframing the Purpose of the Firm with Ashutosh Garg
What is the real purpose of the firm: creating value or capturing it? In this episode of The Value Creators Podcast, Hunter Hastings is joined by Ashutosh Garg to explore one of the most …
The Wrong Economics Has Been Running Your Business.
Hunter Hastings & Mark Packard · from Venture Mode, releasing May 5, 2026 What passes for economic thinking in most firms isn't economics at all. It's central planning — and it's costing …
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Enablement Capitalism, Part 5: From Extraction To Enablement
In Part 1 of this series on Enablement Capitalism, I proposed a shift in capitalism’s operating logic: from selling outputs to increasing what customers can accomplish.In Part 2, I described why …
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Enablement Capitalism, Part 4: The Practicalities Of Operating in Customer Space
Part 1 of the Enablement Capitalism series named the enablement shift: from outputs to customer accomplishment.Part 2 explained why it’s emerging now: a new constraint regime shaped by complexity, …
Primal Intelligence: How Entrepreneurs Create Value in Uncertainty with Angus Fletcher
Listen to the episode here: We’ve been taught that business success comes from logic, prediction, and data-driven strategy. But what happens when uncertainty makes all of that break down? In …