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How do you get better at understanding — and therefore doing — business?
What the best book on business strategy actually looks like in practice. Also: why it's important to read business narratives to learn more.
What games are the best at simulating the lived experience of running a business? And what is that experience like, anyway?
How to pick tree books and branch books, demonstrated using an example of a reading program I developed for B2B sales.
Why focusing on the most important thing often means letting other things blow up.
What Amazon's Working Backwards process tells us about product development methodologies at large.
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.