Strategy

Strategy

The distance between a well-intentioned plan and meaningful impact often comes down to how clearly you think about trade-offs, incentives, and second-order effects. This collection cuts through conventional wisdom with frameworks that help you see around corners—whether you're navigating market entry decisions, restructuring teams for scale, or choosing which battles are worth fighting. These aren't theoretical think pieces; they're battle-tested approaches from leaders who've made high-stakes decisions under uncertainty and lived to refine their thinking. Expect sharp analysis on competitive positioning, resource allocation, organizational design, and the strategic moves that separate durable advantage from fleeting wins. Read these when you need to think more clearly about what matters most.

The SaaS Business Model

How subscription software builds recurring revenue

Crossing The Chasm

Crossing the Chasm is a concept for visualizing the adoption of a new technology over time

Strategic Analysis

Strategic Analysis is the process of researching and analyzing an organization's internal and external environments to forge a strategy

Resource Based View (RBV)

The resource-based view (RBV) is a strategy model that considers an organization's resources as key to sustainable competitive advantage

How Crypto Exchanges Make Money

Fees, spreads, custody and trust drive profit

PARC Framework

The PARC framework helps assess whether the organization is structured for sustained competitive advantage (SCA)

Steam's PC Gaming Playbook

Valve's storefront dominates global PC gaming

Building a Thought-Leadership OS

Systems for credible, contrarian, evidence-backed ideas

Communicating Pricing and Tradeoffs

Why pricing communication fails when leaders treat price as a messaging problem instead of a value-and-tradeoff explanation problem

Designing Executive Resource Hubs

How leaders can organize their ideas so stakeholders can find useful insight by problem, audience and decision context

Video Presence for Executives

How to look, sound and structure talks in a webcam-first world

Executive LinkedIn Signals

Designing a content footprint that boards actually read