Strategy
Every business needs a strategy to string all the resources together to pursue a direction. It involves having a value proposition and positioning in the market.
(Excerpt from The Pumpkin Plan by Mike Michalowicz) A broker, a business coach, a lawyer, a whatever…these are all labels. These labels put you in a generic category, making it easy for clients and prospects to...
December 12, 2019|
Stereotype, Strategy
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(Extracted from Built to Sell by John Warrillow) Stopping yourself from accepting projects outside of your scalable product or service is the toughest part of creating a business that can thrive without you. You will...
November 29, 2019|
Focus, Strategy
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(Extracted from Built to Sell by John Warrillow) … he proceeded to scold us all for spending too much time selling our products and virtually no time selling our company. He went further, and I’ll try to...
November 29, 2019|
Sales, Strategy
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(Extracted from Atomic Habits by James Clear) At some point, you need to make sure you’re playing the right game for your skillset. How do you figure that out? The most common approach is trial and error. Of...
October 27, 2019|
Life, Strategy
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(Excerpt from Zero to One by Peter Thiel) Companies must strive for 10x better because merely incremental improvements often end up meaning no improvement at all for the end user. Suppose you develop a new wind turbine...
September 21, 2019|
Strategy
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(Excerpt from Zero to One by Peter Thiel) seven questions that every business must answer: The Engineering QuestionCan you create breakthrough technology instead of incremental improvements? The Timing QuestionIs now...
September 21, 2019|
Strategy, Tech
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(Excerpt from Zero to One by Peter Thiel) There are two kinds of secrets: secrets of nature and secrets about people. Natural secrets exist all around us; to find them, one must study some undiscovered aspect of the...
September 21, 2019|
Strategy, Tech
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(Excerpt from Zero to One by Peter Thiel) The greatest thing Jobs designed was his business. Apple imagined and executed definite multi-year plans to create new products and distribute them effectively. Forget...
September 21, 2019|
Strategy, Tech
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(Excerpt from Zero to One by Peter Thiel) Even in engineering-driven Silicon Valley, the buzzwords of the moment call for building a “lean startup” that can “adapt” and “evolve” to an ever-changing...
September 21, 2019|
Strategy, Tech
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(Extracted from Zero to One by Peter Thiel) You’ve probably heard about “first mover advantage”: if you’re the first entrant into a market, you can capture significant market share while competitors...
September 21, 2019|
Inversion, Strategy
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