I love it when people describe writing a blog, or writing on the internet, as “popularizing” economics or something similar. That is a sign they… Read More »Tyler Cowen on Writing on the Internet, and Network Value Creation
How we allocate our scarce resources – particularly money, time and attention – shines a bright light on how we prioritise between values. Most of… Read More »Values in tension (2): resource allocation
Every successful business has a monopoly—a monopoly on what it makes that someone else can’t make the way they make it. That leaves out commodity… Read More »Crossing the street: Seth Godin on monopolies
“It helps to be as helpful as you can be” Rolls-Royce now earns MORE from tasks such as managing clients’ overall procurement strategies and maintaining… Read More »Tom Peters on the “services added” narrative
Every successful business has a monopoly—a monopoly on what it makes that someone else can’t make the way they make it. That leaves out commodity… Read More »Seth Godin on creating a (generous) monopoly
Good conferences create a range of stages for members of the cohort to try things out on. Workshops, seminars and meetings happening alongside the keynote… Read More »Conference: small stages
Clayton Christensen’s The Innovators Dilemma is a business classic, providing a framework for understanding how technological or business model innovations (or more usually, both) allow… Read More »Resources: Clayton Christensen on disruptive innovation
Make something useful For lots of people Capture some of that value so that you can do it again The more useful what you do… Read More »Value: more of more?
The starting point is to understand what capabilities you have that others will value, that you can use to create value for others. And then… Read More »Charles Koch on creating value for others and always getting better
A business that does not show a profit at least equal to its cost of capital is irresponsible; it wastes society’s resources. Economic profit performance… Read More »Peter Drucker on social responsibility