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The Hospitality Solution in Your Business

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.

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The Idea Maze is a Useless Idea

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

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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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Data is Just an Added Sense

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

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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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Running a Fine Dining Restaurant in a Recession

How Eleven Madison Park survived the 2008 Global Recession ... and what this tells us about operating through the capital cycle.

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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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The Amazon Weekly Business Review (WBR)

The authoritative guide on how Amazon does WBRs (from former exec Colin Bryar): how it works, how to do it, and how Amazon uses it to win.

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Business Ecosystem Change Takes Time

The birth of Sony, and the possibility that private corporations and private individuals can change broader business ecosystems.

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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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