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How do you get better at understanding — and therefore doing — business?
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.
How Koch Industries became an empire. We draw on ideas from both the Becoming Data Driven series and the Capital Expertise series.
The creation of Marvel Studios was contingent on some very creative financial dealmaking. A story of superb capital expertise in action.
Two examples of operators who were strong on the capital side of the business expertise triad, but weak in just about everything else.
Andy Beal's story is an astounding story of capital allocation, incidentally making him America's richest banker. A guest post by Frederik Gieschen.
Broadly speaking, there are two approaches to data analysis in business. The two approaches have different worldviews, and express different tradeoffs. Here's why that matters.
The unspoken secret about new company formation is that you need to get lucky. Roll the dice, get a business outcome. Capital allocation matters because it gives you a path to winning even when you lose the initial roll.
The skill of capital allocation — a mysterious, under-discussed element of remarkable business performance.