Thing I’ve been contemplating today about business: “The game you choose to play matters more than how good you are at it.” Not a 100% sold on that being a truism, but can’t find any counterexamples.
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So maybe I think saying: The game of “retail” is bad and a red ocean. But Wal-Mart playing the “discount retailer game focused on small town America” is a GREAT game — a blue ocean.
For sure agree. No one can be successful without going blue ocean right, at least blue pond (niche)? Walton is super interesting. He was a copycat who everyone ignored until it was tooooo late.
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Yeah — so the “game” you choose needs to be one that you play in a blue ocean, methinks.
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Yes, but there are some blue oceans that can support many sharks, like PE in the 80s, hedge funds in the 90s. Cirque du Soleil is the opposite. There can really only be 1, maybe 2 of those. To me, that relates back to what you said: game choice is huge.
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