[updated 24Aug2015]
One-off topics on which I have a current perspective (in no particular order)
- The value of an expert generalist: an "efficient frontier" of depth and breadth
- Distilling strategy to expose core assumptions
- Basic Bayesian: How is business success like petitioning the Supreme Court?
- Reinventing alchemy: the physics and psychology of perpetual motion
- What makes operating efficiency challenging to reinforce as a core value
- Book review: "Who gets what and why" (Alan Roth)
- On the balcony while in the dance: The false dichotomy between "big picture" and "detail oriented" thinking
- Some strategies are less wrong than others
- "Adding up is the essence of democracy"
- Appropriate urgency is context-dependent: the cost of re-work vs boiling the ocean
- The sunk cost fallacy fallacy
- Block and tackle: The high cost of rework
- Pay for performance: Useful for budgeting, consolidating power
- The downside of secret strategies
- Random rewards create addict behavior
- Diagnostic importance: Frame problems in ways that make them solvable & "one of those"
- Second-best solutions: push stakeholders to build bridges, not tollbooths
- Wei wu wei
- How to make a bureaucracy dance - or contribute towards its delinquency
- Democracy lessons from Ken Arrow
- How to go to war with the team you have
- Begin with the end in mind: Business strategy is built on the foundation of run-rate economics and valuation
- Algorithms as a form of argument from authority
- Book review: The Dictator's Handbook (de Mesquita)
- Do leaders get what they expect or inspect?
- To steer, your ship must be moving
- Book review: Exit, voice, and loyalty (Hirschman)
- Relative vs absolute performance (people evaluation and incentives)
- Transparency and accountability: "Big brother" complaints presume a one-way panopticon
- Android vs. iPhone: The impact of splitting profit pools on R&D coverage
- Platform strategy: Commoditize the complements
- Great power politics - understanding (ir)rational hegemons
- Relationships can be overstated - people whose interests are aligned tend to get along
- Block and tackle: Variance before mean
- Cooperative organizations rely on perceived fairness
- "Buying business": Acceleration or SimCity cheat code?
- Dead reckoning vs navigation
- Dead downwind faster than the wind
- Profits tend to accrue to relationship owners
- Complex problem solving requires time/space to "upload" before every work session
- Aviate, navigate, communicate: Mazlow's hierarchy of priorities
Potential "Uber"-like series topics on which I have an emerging perspective:
- Rules vs discretion
- Internet of Things
- Bitcoin
- Algorithm-ization of the world
Recurring series:
- Because, science: [Misuse of science to hide argument from authority]
- Simon Says: [The wisdom of Herb Simon]
- Functioning as designed: [A perceived system flaw was (mistakenly) designed in]
- Book review: [Distinctive perspectives on leadership, economics, or technology]
- Lazy journalism: [PR retweet, scaremongering, innumeracy] edition
- New business idea: [Something I find interesting]
- Annals of leadership: [Good/bad] bag edition
- History rhymes: [Relearning old lessons]
- Block and tackle: [Getting the basics right, often using ops concepts]
- Health vs performance: [Exploring apparent tensions between long- and short-term thinking]
- Basic Bayesian: [Naive use of ex-ante and ex-post information on belief structures]
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