Andrew Magowan

Strategy guru Alex MH Smith wrote recently about how, thanks to AI, he thinks we're entering an era of hyper abundance He wrote about how that hyper abundance will impact business strategies But that made me think about the impact of hyper abundance on the wider legal environment in which those businesses will apply those strategies Because, taking Alex's cue, I think we're going to have a hyper abundance of legal stuff After all, it's never been easier to generate legal stuff, from...

Winning creates enemies And those enemies will do anything to get back at you Including legal stuff Just ask Phil Knight When Nike started to properly eat into his biggest competitors market share, they got the US government to change the law to hugely increase the duties Nike was charged Retroactively Now Phil reacted And Phil fought And he reduced the initial bill down by more than 60% But the final was still almost 40% of Nike's entire revenue in the year the bill first landed So CEOs:...

CEO followers: does this sound familiar? "Argh, here we go again Time to clear the diary I was really looking forward to walking the floor, too But I don't really have a choice now I'd also better let the CFO know I know we're already tight against our budget but we're going to need to find the money for this And if I know one thing about legal stuff, it's that it's expensive I can't believe we're doing this dance again I can't believe we've another legal issue I was sure that contract was...