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.

BCG Growth - Share Matrix

BCG Growth-Share Matrix is a corporate strategy tool to analyze business units or product lines based on market share and the market growth rate

Walmart Business Model

Scale, low prices, retail media convergence

The Aggregator Business Model

Own the user experience, commoditize suppliers

Pyramid Principle

The Pyramid Principle is a top-down way of structured thinking that reflects executives' through process with big ideas followed by smaller ideas

The Virtual Office Business Model

Digital infrastructure is replacing physical offices

VRIO

VRIO framework is a strategic tool that helps organizations identify the resources and capabilities that give them a sustainable competitive advantage

Etsy's Handmade Marketplace Model

How Etsy turned crafts into commerce

Competitive Analysis and Positioning

Competitive analysis and positioning are structured methodologies that help articulate an educated strategy using key factors in a competitive ecosystem

Leading Through Chat

Making written micro-messages in Slack/Teams feel like real leadership

Mindmap

Mind Mapping is a visualization technique to graphically establish connections between several ideas or pieces of information in line with the brain's natural way of doing things

Management By Objectives (MBO)

A management approach to improve organisational performance by clearly defining objectives agreed by both, management and employees

Virtue Signaling

People say a statement on a subject to generate approval from those listening, usually through what is implied rather than said