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

Cedric talks to Stan Slap, international consultant to the Fortune 500, on a powerful, coherent model for shaping employee culture.

How do you shape employee culture? How do you win employee commitment? Under The Hood has a coherent model for building this skill.

A paradox: why it’s important to think about business without abstractions, even as we learn from what’s come before.

What rigorous trial and error looks like when applied to improving disadvantaged student outcomes ... and why you should be able to do this in your own org contexts.

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 look at the main provocation of Will Guidara’s Unreasonable Hospitality: that you can solve (certain) business problems with hospitality, and that it only takes a little thoughtfulness to do so.

Product market fit is a crapshoot. Here's what's actually useful in the hunt for a new business idea.

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

A useful operating principle to sidestep the biggest misconception around becoming data driven in business.