‘Market’ is a shorthand for ‘factors influencing the market’, 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. The ‘Market’ topic cluster includes strategic adversarial thinking, though large bits of strategy also involve| Commoncog
How Robert Kuok used the joint venture to expand his business empire ... and what this tells us about business in Southeast Asia.| Commoncog
One simple idea that falls out of the Heart of Innovation book — that you can use immediately — is this idea of selling into situations, not selling to ideal customer profiles. It’s what the pros do anyway.| Commoncog
Commoncog uses a unique case approach to business education. What it is, how it works, and why it’s superior to the traditional case method.| Commoncog
How one of the oldest business empires on the subcontinent got started, and how one man’s values laid the foundation for five generations of business conduct.| Commoncog
Three cases from The Heart of Innovation, picked to demonstrate the ideas of Deliberate Innovation.| Commoncog
A theory of demand (and product market fit) that explains it all, and does NOT require ‘pain’ to do it.| Commoncog
Every Asian Tycoon we’ve examined got their start in a world with tariffs. They could thrive and adapt under severe uncertainty. So can we. Here’s how to calibrate for that world.| Commoncog
The bare minimum you need to know to be an adequate manager. Short enough to finish in three hours. Meaty enough to take 6-8 months to master.| Commoncog
We study the rise of Vanguard, the index fund management company, as a case study of how customer demand is not always about pain.| Commoncog
How and why the Jobs to be Done Framework can help you sell more, faster, and accelerate your understanding of demand.| Commoncog
The life and times of one of the most skilled tycoons of South East Asia: Robert Kuok. This is the fourth case on the rise of a tycoon in the Asian Conglomerate series.| Commoncog
A technique for evaluating non-scientific advice, from practitioners.| Commoncog
Working Backwards is the first book that explains how Amazon really works.| 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 do we actually know about burnout? What does the research say? Is burnout preventable? All the research, in one free, updated place.| 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
How do you shape employee culture? How do you win employee commitment? Under The Hood has a coherent model for building this skill.| Commoncog
Technique summary of Ray Dalio's Believability.| Commoncog
7 Powers is arguably the best book on business strategy currently available today.| Commoncog
A Framework for Putting Mental Models to Practice is a series that examines the idea of putting Charlie Munger's Elementary Worldly Wisdom to practice in one's life in the pursuit of better decision making.| Commoncog
Accelerated Expertise is the best book we have on creating accelerated training programs today.| Commoncog