03.11 / KFC ran out of chicken & more.

03.11 / KFC ran out of chicken & more.

KFC ran out of Chicken

When your company’s main product is fried chicken, running out of chicken is quite possibly the biggest crisis you can have. ......

Considering that KFC’s word of mouth more than tripled during the same period, the brand is likely to have benefited from the crisis. Think about it for a moment: they were able to turn around a failure in their supply chain into something that resulted in a net positive for their brand.

Whether it’s at the scale of a Billion dollar business or at the level of an individual investor, the ability to identify opportunities during a crisis is one of the most critical skills that one can have. It helps in navigating stormy scenarios and emerging unscathed on the other side.

YouTube and TikTok Creators Are Tearing Up Netflix’s Streaming Rulebook

Netflix

makes no secret

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of its long-term view that “streaming entertainment is replacing linear TV.” This has always been an elegant vision—the cable bundle is expensive, it isn’t portable across devices and it requires a clunky remote control. The internet, meanwhile, enables on-demand, personalized streaming of TV series and movies on any screen. So the streaming service that best fits and evolves with this new paradigm will

win out in the long run.

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