The Hidden Strategic Value of Doing Less
Why the sharpest competitive moves are often acts of strategic subtraction, not addition
How to Compete When You Can't Win on Price or Quality
When you can't win on price or quality, three unconventional strategies create advantages competitors can't easily follow
Why Customer Obsession Sometimes Destroys Strategy
When listening to customers too carefully leads companies away from the strategy that made them valuable
Why Strategic Differentiation Keeps Collapsing Into Sameness
The forces pushing businesses toward sameness are structural—sustainable uniqueness requires building what can't be copied.
The Hidden Logic Behind Successful Market Entry Decisions
Why the biggest markets often make the worst entry targets, and what to evaluate instead
The Strategic Logic of Killing Your Own Products
Why the companies that survive market shifts are the ones willing to obsolete their own successes first.
What Scale Really Gives You in Modern Competition
Size still matters in business competition—but not in the ways you learned.
The Overlooked Role of Timing in Strategic Success
Why when you move matters as much as what you do—and how to read the signals.
How Platform Businesses Rewrite Traditional Strategy Rules
Why controlling the best assets matters less than orchestrating the best connections in platform competition
The Dangerous Comfort of Strategic Consensus
When everyone agrees on strategy too easily, you've probably stopped making real choices.
What Porter's Five Forces Misses About Modern Competition
Porter's classic framework still asks useful questions—but modern competition demands answers he never imagined.
How to Build Strategic Capabilities Before You Need Them
Strategic capability building is about creating options before the market reveals which ones matter.
Why Copying Successful Strategies Almost Always Fails
The hidden foundations beneath competitor success explain why imitation backfires and how strategic learning actually works.
How to Build Strategy Around Customer Problems You Haven't Solved Yet
Master the strategic disciplines of anticipating customer needs before markets form and positioning capabilities to capture emerging opportunities.
Why Industry Boundaries Are Strategic Illusions
Discover why traditional industry definitions create dangerous blind spots and how ecosystem thinking reveals hidden competitive threats and opportunities.
How Great Companies Recognize When Their Core Strategy Is Dying
Discover why thriving companies miss fatal strategic shifts and learn the early warning signals that appear years before financial decline becomes visible.
The Strategic Difference Between Being Fast and Being First
Why strategic speed means knowing when to wait, not just how to move fast in competitive markets
How to Make Strategic Decisions Under Deep Uncertainty
Strategic frameworks for making bold decisions when the future refuses to be predicted.
Why Most Strategic Plans Fail Before Execution Begins
Discover why strategies collapse before implementation and how to build plans that survive contact with organizational reality.
The Counterintuitive Power of Strategic Constraints
Why the most powerful strategic advantages often emerge from limitations rather than resources—and how to use constraints intentionally.