The answer, like most things from Statistical Process Control, is more surprising and more obvious than you might think.| Commoncog
7 Powers is arguably the best book on business strategy currently available 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
If the most unlikely, most un-businesslike person could become a masterful capital allocator late in her life, then perhaps you could, too.| Commoncog
How Koch Industries became an empire. We draw on ideas from both the Becoming Data Driven series and the Capital Expertise series.| Commoncog
Cedric talks to Colin Bryar, early Amazon executive and former shadow to Jeff Bezos, on one of Amazon's secret operational weapons: the Weekly Business Review.| 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
Goodhart's Law is useless. It tells you about a phenomenon, but it doesn't tell you how to solve it. We look at how organisations actually prevent Goodhart's Law, and illustrate this with Amazon's Weekly Business Review as an example.| Commoncog
Every experimentation and iteration loop looks the same, but the vast majority of folk in business don't seem to have the discipline to execute till the end. Why this is, and why it's hard.| Commoncog