Industry Analysis: Transportation

How Transportation creates and captures value

Industry Analysis: Venture Capital/VC

How Venture Capital/VC creates and captures value

Jevons Paradox

Efficiency can expand use faster than it saves

Find Your Unfair Advantage

Strategy is about finding and using what is uniquely yours to become a category of one.

Strategy Questions Answered

Senior managers asked tough strategy questions. Here are practical, framework-driven answers.

Open Strategy Matters

Hidden strategy rarely gets executed

Why M&A Synergies Matter

Higher purchase prices force acquirers to actually deliver the synergies they promise.

Hofstadter's Law

Complex work defeats even adjusted estimates

Post-Merger Integration Explained

The deal is the wedding. Integration is the marriage, and it decides value.

McNamara Fallacy

Count Better, Not Blindly

Lindy Effect

Time-surviving things often gain credibility from survival itself

Murphy's Law

Failure deserves a design response