Taylor Swift has managed to do what even the most famous corporate American CEOs have failed to do: create and execute on a corporate strategy. And never has this been more obvious than this month when Taylor Swift re-released her album “Red”, propelling her to dizzying new heights against a backdrop of America’s most-celebrated conglomerate, GE, announcing its breakup. All over Wall Street equities analysts are advising stock-pickers that the golden age of American conglomerates may be dead. The value that they thought would be created through merging differentiated businesses, the analysts argue, is just not there. With investor patience…

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