Future Business Emperors - A Masterpiece
Francis Oguaju continues to inspire. I wrote a piece today on moguls of the future. As always, I treasure all comments; I come for them. Francis left a masterpiece (below).
In this era of abundance on the supply side, the game has shifted to demand, turning entities with capabilities to control demands into the newest emperors. The digital supply chain even supports this model, where your superiority and differentiation is on your ability to stimulate demand, and also going ahead to decide who gets what.
It's a radical shift, because for centuries, many things have been rigged from the supply side: just create artificial scarcity, and suddenly - more billions in your bank account! Times have changed, inventories are managed better, with less losses, meaning that you can technically stimulate demand, control the levers, without having 'leftovers' anyway.
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With the way many things have been democratized, aided greatly by internet and web, tearing geographic boundaries along the way; households are turning themselves into mini factories, schools, markets, consulting firms, etc, without needing to break banks just to manage assets.
Human capital remains the most valuable asset in this knowledge economy, everything else is just a supporting cast.
This is the greatest time to be alive, if you are not living now; I am sorry!
