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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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?

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.

Early access to some software we've built to make XmR charts more accessible.