Tag: mindset
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Culture Eats Strategy For Breakfast
You may have heard the business maxim, usually attributed to Peter Drucker, “Culture eats strategy for breakfast.” This doesn’t mean strategy isn’t important. It means culture is more foundational and thus more related to the likelihood of long-term organizational success than strategy. The Eagles-Rams game on Sunday (Go Birds! 🦅) reminded me of this. During…
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Are You Still Naturally Curious?
Kids are naturally curious, which helps them learn a ton about the world around them. Have you managed to hold on to that? I’m in San Francisco for the week enjoying being a tourist with my almost 4-year-old son while my wife gets some much needed IRL team with her UCSF colleagues. We lived in…
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You Don’t Need Amazon Prime
An estimated 170 million Americans are Amazon Prime subscribers. Well done, Bezos and company. A masterclass in branding and customer-first business strategy, no doubt. But, you still don’t need Prime. In an episode of The Daily from The New York Times, technology correspondent Karen Weise discusses the U.S. government’s recently filed landmark antitrust lawsuit against Amazon. While the details of…
