Innovation: The Attacker’s Advantage
Innovation isn’t a single act, it’s an ongoing process of battling against what’s already established. Change is often not noticeable until it’s too late. The attacker’s advantage is the ability to …
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Ideas Are Not Singular
In isolation, good ideas alone are not enough to produce something great. The right people are what make ideas work. Read on to learn about how Pixar used that principle as the basis of its amazing …
Summary: Peter Thiel’s Zero To One
Peter Thiel, the entrepreneur and investor who co-founded PayPal and Palantir, made the first outside investment in Facebook, and was an early investor in companies like SpaceX and LinkedIn, also …
The Power of Noticing: What the Best Leaders See
In The Power of Noticing: What the Best Leaders See, Harvard Professor Max Bazerman, opines about how the failure to notice things leads to “poor personal decisions, organizational crises, and …
12 Books Every Investor Should Read
If you’re looking for something to read that will improve your ability as an investor, I’d recommend any of the books below. All 12 of them are deeply informative and will leave an impact on you. 1. …
Three (Underrated) Reasons for Berkshire Hathaway’s Success
Berkshire Hathaway is widely regarded as one of the most successful companies in the world. If you look at Warren Buffett’s 49 year track record with Berkshire, it almost looks easy in hindsight. Make …
The Hard Thing About Hard Things
The problem with most business books is they present a formula for problems that ultimately have no formula. You’re reading something with no practical value and you’re not really learning …
The “Ink Spot” Strategy That Propels Wal-Mart And Counterinsurgency
I thought this was interesting. Here is Sam Walton, in his own words, detailing the Wal-Mart Strategy from the earliest days. What was novel at the time is now a somewhat common way for businesses to …
How to Succeed in Sales: Insights from Daniel Pink’s “To Sell is Human”
The only thing you got in this world is what you can sell. And the funny thing is, you’re a salesman, and you don’t know that. Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman No matter what you do for a living, …
This Time is Different: The Four Most Costly Words Ever Spoken
When we look at situations we’re always looking for what’s unique. We should, however, give more thought to similarities. “This time is different” could be the 4 most costly …
10 Things I Learned Reading Brad Stone’s The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
I really enjoyed Brad Stone’s The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon. Anyone who wants to better understand the dynamics of disruption or just gain a better understanding of the …
11 Simple Rules For Getting Along With Others
These 11 simple rules, first presented by Dave Packard at HP’s second annual management conference in 1958 are timeless. Not only will they help you improve your ability to work with others but …
Playing to Win: How Strategy Really Works
How Strategy Really Works is a book about strategy, written by A.G. Lafley, former CEO of Procter & Gamble, and Roger Martin, dean of the Rotman School of Management. The book covers the …
Henry Singleton on Strategic Planning — Stay Flexible
Henry Singleton has the best operating and capital deployment record in American business . . . if one took the 100 top business school graduates and made a composite of their triumphs, …
What is the Objective of a Company?
This quote was expressed over 30 years ago by the CEO of a textile company called Indian Head Mills. The objective of our company is to increase the intrinsic value of our common stock. We are not in …
Nate Silver: The Difference Between Risk and Uncertainty
Nate Silver elaborates on the difference between risk and uncertainty in The Signal and the Noise: Risk, as first articulated by the economist Frank H. Knight in 1921, is something that you can put a …