Been reading a lot thanks to getting Covid, and I can’t get this flywheel out of my head.
(From Lessons From The Titans; h/t , who I swear supplies me with most of my book recommendations these days).
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The overarching point that the authors make is that operational excellence is the bedrock from which everything else springs.
(As a person who enjoys running — or even seeing! — tightly-run ships, this just confirms my biases. Though it also drives home how far I have to go.)
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This remains my bugbear with the book. The authors don’t address how radical this claim is, and explain why orthodox strategy is wrong.
I think they have an argument around resilience and long standing markets B2B being less prone to counter positioning. But it’s only hinted at
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Agreed. I struggle with this bit (pictured below), but it’s really thought provoking. I can’t really disagree with it, even though my initial reaction was ‘wait, what?’
