Business Thinking

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

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Operating On The Spectrum Of The Rule of Law

In countries with weak institutions, how things should work is often different from how things actually work. A reminder of what that feels like at the ground level.

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Graham Duncan on Evaluating Expertise

Notes on the expertise of evaluating expertise, from someone who's obsessed with it.

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Against Single Narratives in Crypto

Why it's important not to hold too tightly to any one explanatory narrative during a period of high uncertainty.

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Org Structure Isn’t Everything in Org Design

Why org design is about more than just studying and then picking the right organisational structures.

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The Expertise of Evaluating Expertise

Learning to evaluate the expertise of others as a competitive advantage in itself.

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The Skill of Org Design

Building effective organisations is a remarkably useful, if rare, skill. This is what it looks like, what it consists of, and how to tell if someone has it.

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Changing My Mind on Capital

Refactoring a network of beliefs built on a largely under-examined worldview.

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Change Your Business: A Library of Strategic Rehearsals

The Strategic Rehearsal is a remarkable cognitive science-based training intervention for business. This is a summary of every Strategic Rehearsal ever published.

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Business Expertise: Using the Triad as a North Star

Some implications of using the triad mental model of business as a North Star for learning. Part of a series on business expertise.

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Business Expertise: The Importance of Cognitive Agility

Cognitive agility is the speed with which an individual is able to update their mental models in response to new information. This is what the study of cognitive agility tells us about how we learn — and fail to learn — in business and in life.