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Business and Life are full of temptations

(Excerpt from Invested by Charles Schwab) The world of business, like the rest of life, is full of wonderful temptations, and making a choice about where you are going to devote your energy is often as much about...

October 24, 2020| Business, Focus, Life, Via Negativa Read More

Lewicki and Hiam’s Negotiation Matrix

(Excerpt from Mastering Business Negotiation by Roy Lewicki and Alexander Hiam) Avoiding (lose-lose). In this strategy, shown in the lower left of the diagram, the priorities for both the relationship and the outcome...

October 18, 2020| Business, Matrix Read More

BCG Growth Share Matrix

(Excerpt from The Star Principle by Richard Koch) There is a branch of business theory called strategy , which was invented by a new consulting firm, the Boston Consulting Group (BCG), in the 1960s. BCG’s most famous...

September 6, 2020| Investing, Matrix, Strategy Read More

Money is the best measure of business value

(Excerpt from Your Move by Ramit Sethi) Money is the marker that you’re doing the right thing because money is the ultimate value to people. When someone is willing to open their wallet and give you their credit...

August 25, 2020| Business, Sales Read More

Don’t get disappointed about a staff when you were not specific about what you want in the first place

(Excerpt from The Road Less Stupid by Keith Cunningham) When we are disappointed with the performance of an employee, it’s always a result of an unmet expectation. All upsets are simply unmet expectations....

May 21, 2020| People Read More

Culture is not welfare. Culture is accountability and working in unison for a common objective.

(Excerpt from The Road Less Stupid by Keith Cunningham) The vast majority of business management teams—whether a publicly held Silicon Valley behemoth or a mom-and-pop Sioux Falls corner drugstore—have drunk the...

May 17, 2020| People Read More

The Head/Heart/Hands framework

(Extracted from My top essays/tweetstorms in 2019 on product/market fit, investing, KPIs, YouTubers, and more by Andrew Chen) The idea is that every work culture can be described as a pie chart of these three factors....

May 3, 2020| People Read More

What investors bet on in startups

(Extracted from My top essays/tweetstorms in 2019 on product/market fit, investing, KPIs, YouTubers, and more by Andrew Chen) 2019 state of tech investing: Pre-seed- Bet on the entrepreneur Seed- Bet on the...

May 3, 2020| Business Read More

Survival is an underrated factor in success

(Extracted from Timing, Luck, and Surviving by AVC) If you stick around long enough, you can often catch a lucky break. But that lucky break can’t come for you if you didn’t figure out how to stick around long...

April 29, 2020| Lindy Effect Read More

Raise the average with the next hire

(Excerpt from The Star Principle by Richard Koch) Hire to raise the average. Ideally, each new recruit should be in the top 10 per cent of existing employees. That way the firm will constantly get better and better....

February 21, 2020| People Read More

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