Strategy (13)
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Strategy by design
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Installing and Operating a DMO
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Peter Kaufman on The Multidisciplinary Approach to Thinking: Transcript – Latticework Investing
Incredible clarity of thought from the great Peter Kauffman
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Strategic Intent
Most leading global companies started with ambitions that were far bigger than their resources and capabilities. But they created an obsession with winning at all levels of the organization and sustained that obsession for decades.
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McKinsey’s Three Horizons Model Defined Innovation for Years. Here’s Why It No Longer Applies.
It assumes that breakthrough innovations will take years to develop.
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Famous Speeches: A List of the Greatest Speeches of All-Time
For the past year, I've been compiling a list of inspirational speeches. See my list of 20+ famous speeches and their transcripts here.
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Outlasting - Signal v. Noise
Jason Fried on thinking long term
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Position, Position, Position! - Signal v. Noise
Interesting piece on positioning using a spatial metaphor to help you think through your product's positioning.
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On being lost. Chapter 1 | by swardley | wardleymaps | Medium
This is the story of my journey, from a bumbling and confused CEO lost in the headlights of change to having a vague idea of what I was doing. I say vague because I’m not going to make grand claims…
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Talk: Dan McCarthy
Applicable to a wide range of applications
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Why Competetive Advantages Die
Instant classic
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Top Ten Qualities of the Best Project Managers — David C. Baker
PM guidelines
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Business Lessons from Mark Leonard (Constellation Software) – 25iq
Mark Leonard reminds me of Warren Buffett. Anyone who likes reading Berkshire shareholder letters will very likely enjoy Leonard's shareholder letters and his answers on earnings call transcripts. The Globe and Mail describes part of what Leonard has accomplished at Constellation software: “With an initial $25-million investment from OMERS and his old associates at…
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Culture (12)
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Hunter S. Thompson's letter to Hume Logan (Letter)
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Against Waldenponding
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The Value of Grey Thinking
Grey thinking works. Reality is all grey area. All of it. There are very few black and white answers and no solutions without second-order consequences.
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VAG_worksheet_2015.indd
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The Web Is a Customer Service Medium (Ftrain.com)
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What is Amazon? | Zack's notes
Sweeping treatise on Amazon and how it operates
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Crony Beliefs | Melting Asphalt
Kevin Simler on, well a whole bunch of things
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We Don’t Sell Saddles Here
We know that we have built something which is genuinely useful: almost any team which adopts Slack as their central application for communication would be significantly better off than they were…
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Tickets for Restaurants
Kokonas is a clear thinker. Great post
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Strategy and stewardship
Tom Critchlow. Move. Think. Create.
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Complement
Incredible insights here. Essential Reading
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Writing Docs at Amazon
Recently, Ben Bashaw published a good article about the way that Amazon (almost uniquely) uses written documents to make decisions. This was posted to Hacker News and a lively discussion ensued…
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Art (1)
Business (2)
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The Resilience of Costco by MineSafetyDisclosures - Issuu
Issuu is a digital publishing platform that makes it simple to publish magazines, catalogs, newspapers, books, and more online. Easily share your publications and get them in front of Issuu’s millions of monthly readers. Title: The Resilience of Costco, Author: MineSafetyDisclosures, Name: costco_deck, Length: undefined pages, Page: 2, Published: 2018-06-14
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Illegibility: The Margin Between What's Measured And What's Real
Illegibility: The danger is when you believe the simplified version is the full reality and not a simplification.
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Communication (1)
Content (2)
Decision Making (4)
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How polarity management can help us balance seemingly conflicting goals and values | Kindling
Seemingly conflicting, but equally necessary truths are known as polarities. Polarities represent some of the fundamental tensions that come up in our organizations and in our lives as individuals.
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A first lesson in meta-rationality | Meta-rationality
A first lesson in meta-rationality, or stage 5 cognition, using Bongard problems as a laboratory.
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The Evolution of Trust
an interactive guide to the game theory of why & how we trust each other
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Be lucky - it's an easy skill to learn
Those who think they're unlucky should change their outlook and discover how to generate good fortune, says Richard Wiseman
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Finance (1)
Growth (5)
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Four Fits To Growth From $0 to $100M
Brian Balfours deck on the 4-fits necessary (think an expanded product market fit) to build a $100M+ business
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Hierarchy of Engagement, Expanded | by Sarah Tavel | Medium
Almost a year ago, I published a framework I called The Hierarchy of Engagement, that synthesized my thinking on how to build a product that endures. Since then, I’ve had countless conversations with…
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Optimization and Innovation
Growth Expert & VC Andy Johns on Growth
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The Growth Marketing Handbook
The in-depth guide to acquiring more users, writing landing pages, running A/B tests, and other growth tactics.
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Conversion: The Most Important Internet Metric of All (Revisited) | Above the Crowd | By Bill Gurley
Conversion: The Most Important Internet Metric of All (Revisited) | Above the Crowd | By Bill Gurley
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Human Behaviour (16)
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Lessons from Keith Rabois Essay 2: How to Interview an Executive
Keith Rabois' tips for interviewing
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Paying Your Dues - AVC
There are no shortcuts
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Why Your Brain Needs Idle Time
Research suggests that idle time, where the brain is wandering, is critical for complex mental processing.
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Willpower, wealth, and the marshmallow test
Kottke writes about delayed gratification
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Live versus Dead Players
This is an excerpt from the draft of my upcoming book on great founder theory. It was originally published on SamoBurja.com. You can access the original here. Whether you are examining past societies…
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The Psychology of Money
Morgan is on point here
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Lessons from Keith Rabois Essay 3: How to be an Effective Executive
Good summary on leadership
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The Courage to Manage
Maister talks about finding the courage to really lead
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The Calculus of Grit
Venkat goes off about generalist vs specialist and personal development
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Exploration of Behavioural Biases in Project Delivery
Department of Transport study on OB
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How Clients Choose
Maister talks about how to build client relationships
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The Art of Powerful Questions
Deep dive into how to ask questions
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How to Be an Expert in a Changing World
When experts are wrong
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The Investing Meta-Game
Narratives, alpha relativism
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Betting on Things That Never Change
Trends change, people don't
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The Weird State of the State
Session 1 slide deck for Refactor Camp 2016, "Weird Political Economy"
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Investing (1)
Leadership (6)
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How to Be a Good Board Chair
The key is to remember you’re not the CEO.
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Exec 101 - First 30 days | sriramk.com
Exec 101 - First 30 days
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NBA Hinkie Redact
Incredible note from Sam on vision, leadership and strategy
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The Cook and the Chef: Musk’s Secret Sauce
Extensive look at how Elon Musk has been successful, and the difference between a Cook and a Chef.
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The Knowledge-Creating Company
Editor’s Note: This 1991 article helped popularize the notion of “tacit” knowledge—the valuable and highly subjective insights and intuitions that are difficult to capture and share because people carry them in their heads. Years later, the piece can still startle a reader with its views of organizations and of the types of knowledge that inform […]
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Schumpeter on Strategy | Reaction Wheel
Great summary on Schumpeter
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Org Design (4)
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hawraf-main (public) - Google Drive
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These are Amazon’s 38 rules for success
Two decades of credos, from, “Thinking small is a self-fulfilling prophecy,“ to, “We prioritize work that results in measurable impact for our customers.”
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To Build Great Products, Build This Strong, Scalable System First | First Round Review
As Co-VPs of Product at Reddit, Alex Le and Kavin Stewart manage a large team with multiple competing goals. Here's what they've learned about building effective product pipelines.
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The Innovator’s DNA
Five “discovery skills” separate true innovators from the rest of us.
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Presentations (1)
Product (5)
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What To Do If Your Product Isn’t Growing | by austin chang | Initialized Capital | Medium
As a founder, product lead at Pinterest and PM for a couple products at Google, as well as a growth partner for Initialized Capital, I’ve seen many product teams struggle to grow. Many products start…
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Ways to think about market size
Ben gives a good insights into Market Size
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This is the Product Death Cycle. Why it happens, and how to break out of it at andrewchen
The answer is not "add more features"
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A value creation checklist | Seth's Blog
Seth Godin's Blog on marketing, tribes and respect
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Reframing the problem. If your solutions are not good enough… | by Bettina D'ávila | NYC Design | Medium
I wrote an article earlier this year on how Design Thinking methodology can help you create and validate your design hypothesis within your product team. In summary, the process of generating and…
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Startups (4)
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The Case for the Fat Start-Up - Ben Horowitz - News - AllThingsD
Much has been written and said about the current economic downturn and the resulting lessons on how to run high-technology companies. Quite famously, Sequoia Capital, the premier venture capital firm in Silicon Valley, held a mandatory all-CEO meeting in fall 2008 during which it advised them to "Cut spending. Cut fat. Preserve capital."
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Required reading for marketplace startups: The 20 best essays at andrewchen
Andrew Chen's round up on marketplaces
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The 4 Scenarios of Startup Timing | by Gabor Cselle | Gabor Cselle | Medium
The factor that determines most of the outcome of your startup is the one you have the least control over: Timing. Your startup’s fate depends on if and when there is growth in the market you’re…
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Why Your Startup Doesn't Invest Sufficiently in its Differentiators by @ttunguz
There are three types of product features, a seasoned head of product told me recently. MMRs, neutralizers, and differentiators. MMRs are minimum market requirements; basic features that every customer expects and demands. Neutralizers mitigate competitive threat. Differentiators are your startup’s competitive advantage. As a product manager, I’d never thought about this type of roadmap segmentation before. But it made a lot of sense to me.When a startup has established product market fit, the differentiator is clear.
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