Deliberate practice for business people is reading business history.
Ben Horowitz used to say that tech business is so complex, it's like playing 3D chess. "There's always a move."
Reading business history radically expands the space of possible moves in your head.
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One problem is a lot of business history or what passes for it is great man hagiography 😢
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Agreed. The Elon Musk book comes to mind. But my approach is to read as many books around the topic as is possible (balancing out authors against each other), while concurrently reading every annual report (if it's a public company) from the same period.
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