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
Most companies skimp on process improvement. But the surprising thing is that they do so not because they're bad or lazy — but because there are system dynamics that prevent them from doing so. We take a look at what those are.| Commoncog
Focus may be about saying no to good ideas, but it certainly doesn't mean doing one thing at a time. This is what focus looks like at an organisational level, told through the story of a business turnaround and the Marine Corps approach to war.| Commoncog