Asymmetric Advantage: Business Strategy Lessons from the US–Iran War
Why decisive victory eludes even the overwhelmingly well-resourced — and what challengers and incumbents alike can learn from asymmetric contests.
Read →A living library of Olu Akanmu’s thinking — on strategy and markets, leadership and ethics, technology and the making of a fairer society. Begin with the featured essays, then wander the collection.
Why decisive victory eludes even the overwhelmingly well-resourced — and what challengers and incumbents alike can learn from asymmetric contests.
Read →African financial institutions must build strong climate-finance capabilities — and artificial intelligence will be critical to making climate-risk evaluation truly smart.
Read →Delivered as a keynote to the Jericho Business Club, Ibadan: how the founding elites of old Ibadan built an inclusive, republican society — and what today’s elites owe their nation.
Read →On the pharmaceutical industry’s place in national development — and the making of a fairer society.
Read →A reflection on the European migrant crisis — and the shared prosperity, or shared poverty, of one world.
Read →On the responsibilities of managers, boards and professions — and the moral weight of commercial choices.
Field notes from building some of Nigeria’s most valuable brands — on strategy, differentiation and the discipline of marketing.
On scaling businesses, managing quality at speed, and putting emerging technology to productive work.
The through-line of a career: extending the financial system to those it has left out.
The original blog on strategy and public policy — the seedbed of many of the ideas later developed in essays, keynotes and the podcast.
Read the blog →Ongoing essays and reflections published on LinkedIn — where new writing appears first.
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