The Stagnation Assassin Show
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I'm Todd Hagopian, CEO of Stagnation Assassins and Executive Director of the Stagnation Intelligence Agency. Every week, I deliver fast-paced, in-your-face episodes that teach aspiring stagnation assassins how to DECLARE WAR ON STAGNATION!
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Episodes
24 episodes
Your Competitors Know Your Weaknesses Better Than You Do—Because They're Exploiting Them
While you're comfortable in your ignorance, your competitors wake up every day studying you. They know your strengths because they're avoiding them. They know your weaknesses because they're exploiting them. I asked a leadership team their comp...
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8:21
Your P&L Is Lying: How 100 Customer-Product Combinations Generated 150% of Profit While 1,700 Destroyed the Rest
I built a spreadsheet at 2 a.m. that revealed a company's darkest secret. 100 customer-product combinations generated 150% of their profit, while 1,700 combinations destroyed the other 50%. That's 5% creating all the value while 95% burned it d...
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9:12
The Karelin Method: How One Mathematical Formula Creates 600% Productivity Advantage
While your competitors scatter effort across 100 activities like confetti at a failure festival, one mathematical formula creates nearly 600% advantage on what actually matters. Alexander Karelin went 13 years undefeated—not through better wres...
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8:24
Your Leadership Team Isn't Incompetent—They're Playing Chess When Transformation Requires Poker
You hired people optimized for steady-state operations and you're shocked they can't lead revolutionary change. Research shows 30-80% of leaders who thrive in normal operations won't survive successful transformation—and keeping them is costing...
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9:15
The Stagnation Genome: Five Organizational Genes Creating Death Spirals Where Every Fix Accelerates Your Decline
Your business isn't struggling because of the economy, competition, or bad luck. It's dying from a genetic disease you've been misdiagnosing for years. Five organizational genes are multiplying inside your company right now, creating death spir...
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8:57
The $6 Million Shopping Cart: How "Commodity" Equipment Is Committing Customer Experience Homicide
Around 87% of shoppers have abandoned a shopping trip because of a broken shopping cart. That's nearly $6 million in lost revenue per cart over its miserable lifetime. One company transformed from commodity equipment supplier to retail experien...
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8:00
Giant Slaying: How a Company 10X Smaller Annihilated Their Competitor in 18 Months
One company 10 times smaller than their competitor with 100 times less budget absolutely annihilated them in 18 months. While Goliath was protecting his position, David was pursuing his future. Size doesn't determine success—focused ferocity do...
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8:08
Digital Transformation Is Automating Your Dysfunction at the Speed of Silicon
Your digital transformation initiative spent $32 million to digitize processes that shouldn't even exist. Congratulations—you've automated dysfunction at the speed of silicon. About 70% of digital transformations fail because companies digitize...
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8:56
The Capacity Illusion: How One Company Doubled Factory Output Without Adding a Single Machine or Person
One company doubled their factory output without adding a single machine or person. Turns out "maximum capacity" is a comfortable lie that operations tell themselves while opportunity escapes. They discovered busy workers and running machines w...
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8:46
The 70% Rule: Why Perfect Information Is Just Bankruptcy in Slow Motion
Perfect information is just another way to go bankrupt slowly. While you're waiting for 95% certainty, your competitor with 70% confidence has already failed twice, succeeded once, and is scaling their way to steal your customers. Amazon makes ...
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8:32
Servant Leadership Is Creating Corporate Infants: Why Your Obstacle-Removing Is Stunting Your Team
Your servant leadership sounds noble until you realize it's created a generation of leaders who are professional obstacle removers for underperformers. Steve Jobs didn't serve his team's validation needs—he pushed them beyond what they thought ...
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9:18
Fire 30% of Your Customers and Watch Profits Explode 140%
One company fired 30% of their customers and profits didn't just survive—they exploded 140% in six months. Turns out those small customers ordering non-core products were destroying 50-100% of profits, while the top 100 customer-product combina...
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8:39
The Chrome Washer Revolution: How Breaking One Stupid Display Rule Created Market Domination
One appliance company displayed $1,700 chrome washing machines while competitors only showed white ones. That one weird decision created complete market domination. Every competitor was trapped by an unwritten rule that washers must be displaye...
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8:53
Your "Best Place to Work" Award Correlates Directly With Financial Failure
Those feel-good cultures create feel-bad returns while allegedly toxic companies like Amazon and Netflix dominate their markets. You've confused comfort with performance, creating corporate daycares where adults get participation trophies while...
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9:09
The Innovation Echo Chamber: How Kodak Invented the Future and Then Ignored It to Death
Kodak invented the digital camera in 1975, then spent 30 years protecting film technology until bankruptcy in 2012. They literally invented the future and ignored it to death because their innovation echo chamber convinced them that incremental...
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9:28
Your Greatest Strength Is Your Greatest Weakness: Why 70% of Executives Fail From Their Own Superpowers
The exact skills that got you promoted are now your career's ticking time bomb. Around 70% of executives fail not from lacking strengths, but because their greatest strength became their fatal weakness.Your meticulous attention to detail...
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10:02
The 80/20 Matrix: Why 65% of Your Customers Are Hemorrhaging Your Profits
One company made 150% profit on some customers while hemorrhaging money on 65% of everything they sold—and called it strategic positioning. They were like a restaurant charging $20 for a steak that cost $30 to make, wondering why they couldn't ...
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9:59
Murder by Meeting: How Your Calendar Is Costing $400,000 Annually in Wasted Wages
That recurring Monday meeting isn't collaboration—it's a weekly ritual sacrifice of 10 man-hours on the altar of organizational cowardice. The average executive spends 23 hours weekly in meetings—60% of their work life watching PowerPoint purga...
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9:58
Your Star Performers Are Transformation Assassins: Why Top Talent Will Murder Your Change Initiative
Your highest performers aren't transformation assets—they're transformation assassins who will murder every change initiative to protect their comfortable kingdoms. These steady-state superstars succeeded by mastering the old model and will sab...
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10:16
Innovation Labs Are Expensive Zoos: Why Your $10 Million Sandbox Is Producing Press Releases Instead of Products
Companies build gorgeous glass innovation labs, hire brilliant people, give them bean bags and ping-pong tables, and wonder why nothing transformative transfers to the actual business. These labs look like Silicon Valley startups trapped inside...
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10:19
The Karelin Method: The Simple Formula That Makes Teams 600% More Productive
The Karelin Method: The Simple Formula That Makes Teams 600% More ProductiveOne simple formula helps teams become nearly 600% more productive. It's not about working harder—it's about working obsessively on what matters. While you...
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10:30
Work-Life Balance Is a Lie: Why Your Comfortable Mediocrity Is Getting Crushed by Obsessed Competitors
While you're perfecting your morning meditation and preserving your precious energy, your hungrier competitors are working 90-hour weeks to steal your market share—and they're loving every minute of the massacre. SpaceX engineers work 70 to 80 ...
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10:17
Consensus Is Corporate Cancer: Why Your Leadership Team Is a Decision-Destroying Machine
Stanford research proves consensus decisions take nearly three times longer and produce 40% less bold outcomes. That's like paying triple the price for watered-down whiskey—while your competitors capture market share during your sixth meeting a...
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10:23
Your Best Customers Are Killing Your Business
Your Customers Are Killing Your Business: The Profit Parasite PandemicCustomer profitability analysis reveals a shocking truth: your bottom 20% of customers aren't just dead weight—they're corporate cancer consuming 150% of your ...
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