Business Thinking

How do you get better at understanding — and therefore doing — business?

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The Story of Samsung

How Samsung became the largest chaebol in South Korea, and gained so much power over the country’s economy.

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The Study of Asian Tycoons

What can we learn from the study of Asian conglomerates, and the small group of tycoons that control them?

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The Gambling King

The start of the Asian Conglomerates Series: we open with a look at the life of Stanley Ho, gambling king of Macau.

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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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Business Reality Without Frameworks

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

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What Process Improvement in Education Looks Like

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.

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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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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.