Forget failure, here’s how to learn from success
Most of us are pretty good at blaming outside factors for our failures. The economy sucked My business partner screwed me Our team stinks Etc.
Most of us are pretty good at blaming outside factors for our failures. The economy sucked My business partner screwed me Our team stinks Etc.
I think most of us here probably understand this simple idea: The main difference between the people who achieve extraordinary things, and the rest of
This is quite a strange question. It’s strange because very few people are asking it. Nobody really assumes that you need to be an asshole
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
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