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Richard Shotton
Tag: strategy
The source of competitive advantage – being different
Competitive strategy is about being different. It means deliberately choosing a different set of activities to deliver a unique mix of value.
… The essence of strategy is choosing to perform activities differently or to perform different activities than rivals.
Michael Porter, the godfather of modern business strategy
List the top ten most important things you can do – start with number one
Frederick Taylor‘s advice to Andrew Carnegie, retold by Richard Rumelt in ‘Good Strategy / Bad Strategy’
A framework for marketing communications planning
Stephen King’s Planning Cycle from 1974. (H/T Richard Shotton)
A strategy that is easily copied fails fast
Dan Wallace, co-author – The Physics of Brand
Be different and distinctive
“The more people that do the same thing, the less different and distinctive it becomes. And the less different and distinctive it becomes, the less effective it is. And that’s a real imperative towards innovative thought and innovative action.”
Murray Calder, strategist
Trial and error is good, but not forever
“By definition chance cannot lead to long term gains (it would no longer be chance); trial and error cannot be unconditionally effective: errors cause planes to crash, buildings to collapse, and knowledge to regress.”
Nassim Taleb, highly regarded scholar & statistician
