The Stagnation Assassin Show
Welcome to the world's most BRUTAL business transformation channel!
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
79 episodes
Continuous Carnage: How Canon's Kaizen Machine Brought Western Manufacturing To Its Knees
In the 1970s, American manufacturers ruled the world — fat, bloated, arrogant empires of industrial dominance. Then Japanese companies started eating them alive. Not with better technology. Not with bigger budgets. With a philosophy. Canon was ...
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He Made $50,000 A Day And Deleted It: The Flappy Bird Business Autopsy
A solo developer in Hanoi builds a game in three days — no story, no multiplayer, no marketing budget, zero dollars on user acquisition — and starts generating $50,000 a day in ad revenue. Then, at the absolute peak of its success, he pulls it ...
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FOCUSING FIREPOWER & DOMINO DESTRUCTION: WHY "THE ONE THING" IS BRUTALLY SIMPLE AND SIMPLY BRUTAL
There's a Russian proverb: if you chase two rabbits, you'll catch neither. Gary Keller built the largest real estate company in the United States by chasing one. Your to-do list isn't a productivity tool. It's a stagnation spreadsheet. And unti...
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Tesla Bought a Dead Factory for $42M. It Was Worth $1 Billion. Here's What Happened.
In 2010, a car company that had never mass-produced a single vehicle bought a five-million-square-foot factory that two of the biggest automakers on Earth had abandoned. They paid $42 million for a plant that cost over a billion to build. Every...
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SALES SOPHISTICATION & SEQUEL SUPREMACY: WHY "THE CLOSERS PART 2" TURNS CLOSERS INTO CONQUERORS
Part 1 taught you how to close. Part 2 teaches you what real closers actually do with that knowledge once the fundamentals are locked in. The difference between a closer and a master closer isn't technique. It's thinking. And Ben Gay III just h...
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The Government Tried to Destroy Standard Oil. It Made Rockefeller Richer Than Ever.
In 1911, the United States government took the most powerful corporation on planet Earth and ripped it into 34 pieces. They thought they were punishing John D. Rockefeller. They thought they were destroying a monopoly. Instead, they made Rockef...
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RISK RECKONING & GUT-PUNCH GENIUS: WHY "RISK SAVVY" MIGHT BE THE SMARTEST BOOK NOBODY'S READING
One out of every twenty-six positive HIV tests is wrong. Your doctor probably can't explain why. Your financial advisor definitely can't. And the algorithm that just told you to sell your portfolio? It doesn't know the difference between risk a...
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Your Competitor Isn't Working Harder. They're Working on the Right Things. | The Karelin Method
You're working 60 hours a week and your competitor just stole your best customer. How? Because while you're spreading effort across 100 activities like confetti at a failure festival, one mathematical formula creates a 576% advantage on what ac...
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BACKWARD BRILLIANCE & BOARDROOM BLINDSPOTS: WHY "REVERSE INNOVATION" IS A FORTUNE 500 WAKE-UP CALL
GE built a twelve-thousand-dollar portable ultrasound machine for rural China. Then they brought it back to the United States and disrupted their own hundred-thousand-dollar product line. That's not a mistake. That's a revolution in reverse. Th...
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Book Review: The Leadership Pipeline by Ram Charan, Stephen Drotter, and James Noel
Your company just promoted your best salesperson to sales manager. Congratulations — you just lost your best salesperson AND gained your worst manager in a single transaction. And you'll do it again next quarter. And the quarter after that. The...
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INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY IGNITION: HOW MICHAEL EISNER UNLOCKED A VAULT NOBODY ELSE COULD SEE — AND THEN LOCKED HIMSELF INSIDE IT
In 1984, Disney was worth $1.8 billion and bleeding relevance. No defining animated films. Underpriced parks. Corporate raiders circling for the kill. One man arrived, saw assets nobody else was valuing correctly, and over the next decade turne...
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A Track Coach Poured Rubber Into a Waffle Iron. It Built a $170 Billion Empire. Nike.
A track coach in Oregon pours rubber into his wife's waffle iron and accidentally invents the most iconic shoe sole in athletic history. But here's what nobody tells you: the waffle sole wasn't the genius. The genius was what came after — a sys...
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Stagnation Assassin MBA - Working Capital Warfare
Profitable companies run out of cash. Not because they lose money — because they grow too fast, collect too slowly, and pay too early. The income statement says they're winning. The bank account says they're dying. Working capital is where comp...
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Stagnation Assassin Book Review - Viral Loop
Hotmail went from zero to 12 million users in 18 months without spending a dime on advertising. They added seven words to the bottom of every email: "P.S. I love you. Get your free email at Hotmail." Seven words. Twelve million users. And the q...
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Stagnation Assassin Historical CEO Audit - Shantanu Narayen - Adobe
Adobe Creative Suite had a 98% gross margin software business selling perpetual licenses. In 2011, Narayen decided to destroy that revenue stream by moving to subscription pricing. The first two years looked like a disaster — revenue dropped, W...
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Stagnation Assassin MBA - Product Life Cycle
Every management team in history has believed they were in the growth stage when they were actually in maturity. And every management team in a genuine decline phase has believed they were in a temporary dip. The Product Life Cycle framework is...
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Stagnation Assassin Historical CEO Audit - Mark Hurd - HP
After Carly Fiorina's chaotic tenure and the HP-Compaq merger's difficult integration, HP brought in Mark Hurd in 2005. No dramatic narrative. No turnaround mythology. Just an operator who knew how to read a cost structure, identify inefficienc...
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Stagnation Assassin Book Review - Leading Out Loud
86% of employees and executives cite lack of collaboration or ineffective communication as the cause of workplace failures. That means the number one thing killing your company isn't your competition, isn't your product, isn't even your strateg...
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MERCEDES-BENZ ALABAMA PLANT — SOUTHERN STRATEGY, GERMAN PRECISION: HOW STUTTGART TRAINED TUSCALOOSA AND REWROTE THE PLAYBOOK ON AMERICAN MANUFACTURING
Mercedes-Benz — the most prestigious automobile brand on planet Earth — announces they're building a factory in Vance, Alabama. Population: barely 500. The automotive world thought it was a joke. German precision in the heart of the American So...
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Stagnation Assassin Historical CEO Audit - Larry Page - Alphabet
In 2015, Larry Page restructured one of the most valuable companies in the world into a holding company called Alphabet. Every journalist said it was about managing diverse businesses. They were wrong. It was about creating an accountability ar...
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"No Mother Will Ever Buy That." She Sold 351,000 Barbie Dolls in Year One.
In 1959, every toy executive in America told Ruth Handler the same thing: no mother will ever buy her daughter a doll with breasts. They said it was inappropriate. They said it wouldn't sell. They said she was out of her mind. Ruth Handler igno...
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GENERAL MOTORS — WILLIAM DURANT'S CONSOLIDATION CONQUEST: HOW A CARRIAGE SALESMAN SWALLOWED AN ENTIRE INDUSTRY AND NEARLY CHOKED ON IT
It's 1908. Over 200 automobile companies in America. Most of them glorified blacksmith shops with engines bolted to wagon frames. And one man — a cigar-chomping, fast-talking carriage salesman from Flint, Michigan — decides he's going to buy al...
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Stagnation Assassin Book Review - Leadership Challenge
Over two and a half million copies. Translated into twenty languages. Thirty-plus years of research. Seventy-five thousand survey responses. The Leadership Challenge is the most research-backed leadership book in existence. And it's both the be...
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Jawbone Raised $900 Million and Died Worth Zero. Here's the Autopsy.
Jawbone raised over $900 million in venture capital. They had a product people loved, a brand people recognized, and a CEO Silicon Valley treated like royalty. Seven years later they were liquidated. Worth nothing. Not "less than they raised." ...
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