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How do you get better at understanding — and therefore doing — business?
One way that first principles thinking fails is when you build your analysis up from a deficient set of base principles. Everything is correct and true, but you still end up mistaken. Here's how that looks like in practice.
When you're faced with uncertainty, the best thing you can do is analyse your inputs, synthesise a new model, and then destroy it to start over again.
What free cash flow has to do with growth, and why Chinese businessmen in the South East Asian diaspora obsessed over it.
David Maister's Managing the Professional Service Firm reveals some very fundamental principles about the business of consulting.
If you want to start a business as your career moat, don't go looking to startup culture for business advice. Startup wisdom is far less useful than you think.
A story of a Singaporean SME, breaking out of the SME loop.
Small businesses don't grow large by accident. But most hit an invisible ceiling on the way up. Does strategy matter for breaking past this ceiling?
If rationality is so important to success in business and in life, how is it possible for an entire generation of superstitious Chinese businessmen to succeed?
Education robs us of the ability to do trial and error. And yet trial and error is how a generation of traditional Chinese businessmen learnt their craft.
The Chinese Businessmen Paradox: what is it that makes uneducated, superstitious Chinese businessmen successful?