Strategy in Three Minutes. Episode 28
1. Strategy and Value Exchange: Why dinosaurs don’t give birth to unicorns HSBC shuts down Wise competitor Zing James Allan, HSBC’s head of FX and payments, launched Zing to much…
The Profit Paradox: Why Creating Problems Often Outweighs Value Creation
The #1 Money Maker for Big Companies If honest business were as profitable as fraud, fraud wouldn’t exist. And ‘legal fraud’—that’s the most profitable game in town. When you buy…
Strategy, AI agents, and water taps
Not every low-hanging fruit is a golden apple Your team offers you two strategic alternatives. The first option is to enter an old, ‘red,’ consolidated market. Few players fight to…
Risk-free life strategy
Strategy always comes with risk – but not this one Nobody can take away from you what’s inside you. Imagine that your life strategy is to become rich and famous.…
Strategy in Three Minutes. Episode 27
1. Strategy and Value Exchange: Young founders know tech. Successful founders know people. When a group of economists studied millions of American companies founded between 2007 and 2014, they discovered…
Want to create a new market? Focus on what others overlook
Don’t look where the light is. Look where the keys are Traditional marketing can teach you how to sell more. It knows how to reach not only your non-customers but…
The world’s longest war was also bloodless
No one was killed or even injured. The war lasted 335 years without a single shot being fired. It was the war between the Netherlands and the Isles of Scilly, located off the…
What is NOT a strategy?
Don’t waste your time on the secondary, focus on the essential “Profit for a company is like oxygen for a person. If you don’t have enough of it, you’re out…
Life’s Strategic Goal: What We Give Up Defines What We Get
Last Friday, we started a conversation about strategic life goals. Happiness as a strategic goal? Sounds like surrender before the battle—when in reality, it’s harder than winning an Oscar. I’ve…