Thinking
Essays and shorter notes on building companies, creating value, market opportunities, business models, ownership, growth and the choices that determine what an organisation becomes.
- EssayHow Ownership Quietly DisappearsAs organisations grow, decisions often attract more participants while responsibility for the outcome becomes harder to locate.
- EssayLoad-Bearing AssumptionsThe habits that carry a small company can look like strengths until growth removes the conditions that made them work.
- EssayThe Product Has Changed JobsThe visible product may remain essential even as the larger commercial opportunity moves to the system growing around it.
- EssayContainmentThe strongest organisations absorb complexity before it reaches the customer, athlete or person responsible for performing.
- EssayWhen the Signal Becomes Background NoiseCapable teams can become so good at compensating for a recurring problem that the problem stops looking abnormal.
- EssayAfter the Product Is Good EnoughOnce the core product works, durable advantage often comes from capabilities that increase the value of everything around it.
- NoteNotes on OrganisationsTen working principles on ownership, incentives, growth, performance and the conditions that shape results.
- NoteQuestions I AskThe questions I use to find the real constraint before committing time, people or capital to a solution.