The Exceptions: How To Win When Your Industry Is Losing

Inflation is up, wars are dragging on, and most of the stock market's gains are locked inside a handful of AI giants... so what happens to everyone else? In this episode, Michelle Loret de Mola and Dev Patnaik go hunting for the exceptions: companies thriving inside industries that are supposedly dying. They dig into how A24 built a movie studio empire on twenty-million-dollar bets instead of billion-dollar franchises, why Chili's is stealing customers from McDonald's by refusing to discount, how Taco Bell treats product launches like a live focus group, and why Barnes & Noble is opening new stores by giving up the very efficiencies that used to make retail chains powerful. Michelle and Dev unpack the pattern underneath all four: creativity over benchmarking, insights over risk-taking, and playing to strengths instead of chasing someone else's playbook. Plus, headlines from the future: burglars using robotaxis as getaway cars, a dictator's quest for immortality, and a country trying to out-Socrates ChatGPT. Because the winning move isn't following the rules of a dying industry. It's realizing the rules were never worth following in the first place. #SuccessStories #AI #Leadership #Humanity #HowToWin #Creativity #FutureFocused Links Subscribe to receive Dev’s weekly future focused letters: https://www.jumpassociates.com/podcastandnewsletter/ Connect with us on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/jump-associates Start a conversation: [email protected] The Jump Podcast The Jump Podcast features Dev Patnaik in dialogue with Michelle Loret de Mola. This is the conversation for future-focused leaders thinking about strategy, culture and leadership. The world is crazy. Everything seems to be changing, and not always in a good way. Today, business leaders are struggling to figure out how to avoid becoming the next Kodak, Blackberry or Blockbuster. But fear not, dear listener. Things can get better. People can do better. And the world can be better. Jump Associates Jump is the world’s leading independent strategy and innovation firm. We work with the world’s more admired companies on their most important growth challenges. Using a future focused approach to strategy, we’ve helped these firms to grow their businesses in times of change.