How to do strategy for your own career
You’ll only really understand strategy when you understand this: It’s a universal pattern It’s not a piece of technical knowledge, it’s not something invented, it’s
You’ll only really understand strategy when you understand this: It’s a universal pattern It’s not a piece of technical knowledge, it’s not something invented, it’s
“The world doesn’t reward the people with the best ideas. It rewards the people who are best at communicating ideas.” – David Perrell We all
The last person who should be the judge of whether you have a strategy is you. Everyone has a strategy in their head. Or at
In my consulting work with clients, I have two practices which I’ve come to realise are very unusual: I favour long meetings (2+ hours) over
Pretty much every “strategy” I see looks something like this: Whether or not the example in this image is “trying” to be a strategy, the
A running theme of this newsletter, and the “strategy industry” in general, is the continued inability for individuals and organisations to “get it”. Why is
Let’s be honest: not everyone has the same aptitude for this stuff. Although my focus here is to make big bold strategy democratic, and accessible
If you want to learn a skill like strategy, there are lots of resources to help you do it: Books Courses Videos Newsletters Frameworks Podcasts
Sorry. Here I am writing about Tesla again. I don’t even like Tesla! But damn they just make for the cleanest strategic case studies, so
When you’re developing a strategy for your business, you know who the most helpful person is? It’s not your co-founder. It’s not your head of
There’s a simple exercise that you’ve just got to try. Not only try in fact; you must make it a ritual. Every year, or half
There’s a poisonous assumption you see in business, which goes something like this: I’m the best, but the world’s unfair, so I don’t get the
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