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New strategies, new things are coming and going and striving to survive and do well in a situation they mutually create. We can describe this algorithmically, but not easily by equations, not just because the situation is complicated to track but because new behaviors and categories of behavior are not easily captured by equations.

W. Brian Arthur • Complexity Economics: Proceedings of the Santa Fe Institute's 2019 Fall Symposium

The new strategy would result in years of tension between various divisions, between Amazon and its suppliers, and between industry trade groups and the company. Bezos didn’t care about any of that, as long as it offered more choices to customers and, in the process, gave Amazon a greater selection of products. With a single brilliant and nonintuit

Brad Stone • The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon

Real-life strategy, whether your own or a company’s, is an ongoing process of dealing with critical challenges and deciding what consequential actions to take.

Richard Rumelt • The Crux: How Leaders Become Strategists

He understood that physical distribution was going away, that digital license strategies needed to change. He shared his view back then that Pandora should be incentivized to build a subscription business, Spotify to enter the radio space, new entrants to have an advantage in the beginning, and much more international access to digital content. The... See more

Sriram Krishnan • Dave Goldberg on music Music

Strategy

Kimsia • 3 cards

And if you have a differentiated book, and you knew it was differentiated, wouldn’t you want to own 100% of it (just like a differentiated startup)?

Eddie Yoon • Snow Leopard

Strategy stuff

James Stevens • 3 cards

Bill Gates saw where customer priorities were shifting in the computer industry time and time again—from languages to operating systems to applications to communications to the Internet.