Alex Hemmert
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Alex Hemmert
The best art makes your head spin with questions. Perhaps this is the fundamental distinction between pure art and pure design. While great art makes you wonder, great design makes things clear.
John Maeda • The Laws of Simplicity (Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business, Life)
Execution must always be tied to the firm’s value and cost drivers.
Gordon Walker • Modern Competitive Strategy
Here the advantage is firm-specific. Firms integrate their activities across countries to achieve lower costs through economies of scale or scope.
Gordon Walker • Modern Competitive Strategy
when physical labor became optional we invented the gym. we’ll need the same thing for the mind
Motivations behind Partnerships These seven trends have increased the salience of partnering. In addition to lowering the costs or risks associated with an activity, a partnership offers the firm some control over the supply or coinvestment relationship that would not be available in a market contract. What do firms want to control? What are the st
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Steve Schwarzman’s (Co-founder of Blackstone) quote: “The harder the problem, the more limited the competition, and the greater the reward for whoever can solve it.”
Eric Flaningam • Toast: A Recipe for Building a System of Record
Gall’s Law: “A complex system that works invariably evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work.”
The thing is, you probably have all the information you need already, you just can't bring yourself to sit down and listen to it, so you just keep chain-smoking podcasts and youtube videos, never really thinking, knowing deep down that the answers you seek are in the silence you're avoiding
Core competence implies both a technology platform shared by existing businesses and the ability to leverage the platform to develop new businesses.