John Felkins
speaker
3,385 appearances
19 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 2d ago
John Felkins’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And as a result, revenue started shifting from Blockbuster to Netflix.
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It really should be no surprise.
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But here's the thing about business: the one constant you can always count on, that's change.
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That's why in entree leadership, we teach.
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Being proactive about disruption.
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If you don't reinvent your business, somebody else is going to reinvent it for you.
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Arrogance kills a lot of businesses.
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You need to break things before they're broken.
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You need to shoot sacred cows.
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That means while your vision and principles shouldn't change, your products, your processes, and services should.
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So here's what you need to be asking yourself: what part of my business works today but won't work?
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Yeah.
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Even as Netflix was growing, Blockbuster could have turned things around.
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But the pressure of falling behind led to desperation.
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And desperation led to their next mistake.
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They got rid of late fees, but they didn't have a plan to replace that revenue.
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All that did was accelerate their demise.
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In 2004, they threw a Hail Mary launching Blockbuster Online, and they were trying to copy Netflix DVD mail service, but it
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Cost them $200 million to get going.
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They made decisions out of fear and changed their business model.
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