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 →Writing on strategy, leadership, technology and the purpose of elites — published in Premium Times, Nairametrics, BusinessDay and beyond.
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 →How technology businesses can pursue sustainable impact through deliberate purpose and partnerships.
Read →His farewell statement on leaving OPay: gratitude for the work of deepening financial inclusion, and a challenge to the fintech community to reach the 45% of Nigerians still completely excluded.
Read →Olu Akanmu’s bylines have appeared in Premium Times, Nairametrics, BusinessDay, the Nigerian Tribune, TheCable and Leadership, among others. This archive grows as new essays are published.
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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