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Power and Asian Business

The culmination of the Power in Business mini series. What it’s like doing business without the Rule of Law.

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How to Use Power

How do you gain power, use power, and identify those who have power, so that you may protect yourself against them? Part two of three in a series on power in business.

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What is Power?

Understanding how power works in business is necessary to understanding business in developing markets. A members-only mini series.

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Businesses as Ecosystem Organisms

What we can learn from seeing businesses as organisms in an ecosystem ... using the particularly odd example of HEICO as the barnacle to TransDigm’s whale.

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Getting Burnt by Business Expansion

A recurring pattern that seems to show up again and again in business: expansion is dangerous, and everyone really only learns this through pain.

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Danny Meyer’s Business Expertise

Let's break down Danny Meyer's business expertise as an exercise in biography reading.

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A Big Part of Being Data Driven is Will Not Skill

What it's like being data driven in the restaurant business ... and what it tells us about becoming data driven in business more broadly.

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Learning About Moats the Hard Way

How even legendary conglomerator Henry Singleton got caught out by competitive arbitrage at the end of his career.

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The Limits of Operational Excellence

An answer to a puzzle: why is that some businesses go down the Deming path, become data driven, achieve operational excellence, and die, and others acquire Process Power and win?

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Making Sense of Deming

A comprehensive summary of W. Edwards Deming's ideas, whose System of Profound Knowledge is one of the most powerful things you'll find on the Operations side of the business expertise triad. Read this, so you don't have to read multiple books to apply his ideas.

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