'Knowledge' here is defined as 'theories or models that help you predict better'. How an idea from W. Edwards Deming may well be a working philosophy of business.| Commoncog
'Operations’ is a shorthand for ‘factors involved in effective operations’, which is one of the three legs of triad mental model of business expertise. If you don’t know what that is, read this page first. Operations is a broad topic. Good businesspeople tend to have a firm grasp of| Commoncog
What if you could reach into the heads of great businesspeople and pluck out the superstructure of their expertise? Commoncog has a unique approach to the study of business. This is that approach. In the late 1980s, the US Military began funding a branch of psychology called ‘Naturalistic Decision Making’| Commoncog
The culmination of the Power in Business mini series. What it’s like doing business without the Rule of Law.| Commoncog
How do you gain power, use power, and identify those who have power, so that you may protect yourself against them? Part two of three in a series on power in business.| Commoncog
Understanding how power works in business is necessary to understanding business in developing markets. A members-only mini series.| Commoncog
Cedric talks to Stan Slap, international consultant to the Fortune 500, on a powerful, coherent model for shaping employee culture.| Commoncog
How do you shape employee culture? How do you win employee commitment? Under The Hood has a coherent model for building this skill.| Commoncog
How do you accelerate learning in ill-structured domains? A series on Cognitive Flexibility Theory, and how to use it.| Commoncog
What we can learn from seeing businesses as organisms in an ecosystem ... using the particularly odd example of HEICO as the barnacle to TransDigm’s whale.| Commoncog
A look at the main provocation of Will Guidara’s Unreasonable Hospitality: that you can solve (certain) business problems with hospitality, and that it only takes a little thoughtfulness to do so.| Commoncog
Product market fit is a crapshoot. Here's what's actually useful in the hunt for a new business idea.| Commoncog
A recurring pattern that seems to show up again and again in business: expansion is dangerous, and everyone really only learns this through pain.| Commoncog
A useful operating principle to sidestep the biggest misconception around becoming data driven in business.| Commoncog
Let's break down Danny Meyer's business expertise as an exercise in biography reading.| Commoncog
How Danaher combines Lean manufacturing with masterful capital allocation to build a remarkable manufacturing company in the United States.| commoncog.com
How Eleven Madison Park survived the 2008 Global Recession ... and what this tells us about operating through the capital cycle.| Commoncog
What it's like being data driven in the restaurant business ... and what it tells us about becoming data driven in business more broadly.| Commoncog
Some free software to create, modify, experiment with and share XmR charts. Unlock the ability to become more data driven today.| Commoncog
A comprehensive summary of W. Edwards Deming's ideas, whose System of Profound Knowledge is one of the most powerful things you'll find on the Operations side of the business expertise triad. Read this, so you don't have to read multiple books to apply his ideas.| Commoncog
Commoncog Case Library aims to accelerate business expertise using proven cognitive science techniques.| commoncog.com
People often say things like "become data driven" without explaining what that means or how to do it. This is everything you need to know to actually become data driven, from scratch, using the same first principles that Amazon, Koch, and Toyota used back in their day.| Commoncog
Everything that we covered in 2023, and what to expect now that Commoncog has a new direction.| Commoncog
What does it mean to be data driven in business? Most people think being data driven means looking at charts on a daily basis. Or they attempt to use data in their orgs, and then fall into one of the many traps that come with the territory. How do you| Commoncog
This was the final newsletter edition sent out to subscribers at the end of 2022. A recap of Commoncog's best ideas, and a preview of several upcoming experiments.| Commoncog