The Business of Expertise: How Entrepreneurial Experts Convert Insight to Impact + Wealth

“An organization’s ability to learn and translate that learning into action rapidly is the ultimate competitive advantage,”

Besides, I got tired of entrepreneurial firms throwing the same examples in my face all the time. “Well, what about [some well-known firm]? They aren’t positioned and seem to be doing really well.”That

front.

they say, you’ll work crazy hours for yourself to keep from having to work normal hours for someone else.

are okay with the fee and then let you apply your process.

It’s like an expertise snowball: Are you

I could point to one thing that drags people away from long-term relevance it is that they spend their best efforts on a single client instead of spending their best efforts on developing perspectives and processes for all of their clients.

Anything by Rob Walker, Ryan Holliday, Penelope Trunk, Dave Pell, and Joi Ito

Those similar opportunities enable you to see the patterns. Observations emerge as you notice the patterns, articulate the insight, and apply the findings in your speaking, writing, and advising. Without pattern matching, there is no intelligence. Without similar scenarios, there is no pattern matching. Without a tight positioning, there are no sim