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I never chatted with Bezos about this, so I don't know if it was an explicit strategy on his part, but one of his great strengths as a communicator was the ability to encode the most important strategies for Amazon in very concise and memorable forms.
Take one example "Day 1." I don't know when he first said this to the company, but it was repeated
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The Innovator’s Dilemma taught Jensen, as it has generations of business leaders, how to protect his company from competition. It helped him understand the threat from low-cost competitors, which is why he launched lines of low-tier and mid-tier Nvidia chips made from parts that were not quite good enough for the top-of-the-line chips. It convinced
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Ever a student of history, Dimon sent Paulson a note including a citation from a speech Theodore Roosevelt made in Paris in 1910: “It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred
... See moreDuff McDonald • Last Man Standing: The Ascent of Jamie Dimon and JPMorgan Chase
She said much of the finance industry has too narrow a view of its strategy and goals. It often becomes a short-term, almost zero-sum game with many investors focused only on small relative gains won against each other.
W. Brian Arthur • Complexity Economics: Proceedings of the Santa Fe Institute's 2019 Fall Symposium
The unanticipated problems and opportunities then essentially fight the deliberate strategy for the attention, capital, and hearts of the management and employees. The company has to decide whether to stick with the original plan, modify it, or even replace it altogether with one of the alternatives that arises.