Business Thinking

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

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

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

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.

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?

Continuous Improvement sounds simple, even obvious. And yet there's a profound secret at its heart that doesn't seem to get talked about.

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.

People often say things like "become data driven" without explaining what that means or how to do it. This is everything you need to know to actually become data driven, from scratch, using the same first principles that Amazon, Koch, and Toyota used back in their day.

If the most unlikely, most un-businesslike person could become a masterful capital allocator late in her life, then perhaps you could, too.