Cancun. December, 1995. At the hotel pool: “C’mon everybuddy! Itz time fur beetch volleyball! Donthinkahbowdit, just do it! WOOT WOOT!” My wife and I have been laughing about that line, which we heard 3 times a day for 5 straight days, for the past 15 years. Though recently, the joke of it is that the [...]
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When’s the last time you tried working through a problem graphically? It’s not easy to do, but the exercise does engage some parts of your brain that you usually don’t have access to when you try to work through strategic and/or complex issues more linguistically. When you think solely with words, you tend to move [...]
I like to see my business 3-5 steps out. That’s just how I am—I need to see where I want to end up in a year, and then work backward to figure out what I need to do tomorrow to make sure I get there. Thinking this way helps me deal with the unexpected—by laying [...]
“Declining revenues” isn’t a problem, it’s feedback
Dear Alex, the answer to your question about whether college is obsolete or not is, “Yes… it’ll just be a little time before the reality sinks in.” Alex, there’s a guy by the name of Clayton Christensen out there who is a really sharp guy. Harvard prof sharp. And in the book The Innovator’s Solution, [...]
Big picture, conceptual, strategic thinking is NOT knowing Porter’s 5 Forces. It’s not having an MBA, and it’s not being invited to a strategic meeting… Strategic thinking is thinking on a conceptual plane… Strategic thinkers can see things that aren’t there… yet. They can envision a different world from the one that exists, based on extrapolation as opposed to pure imagination.
If I differentiate strategic thinking from conceptual thinking, it’s to distinguish those who can merely think the big thoughts from those who can also see how to implement them.
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