Strategy

First Principles: The Building Blocks of True Knowledge

“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”

whenever something isn’t working, I put my best A players on it immediately because I want to decide as fast as possible whether it’s an execution problem or an idea problem.

“The beginner chases the right answers.

The master chases the right questions.”

First, if nobody wants to volunteer in that project, that project is terrible. Don’t start it. Don’t start it because it’s just, people are going to be forced to do it, so ask for volunteers. Nobody shows up, don’t start it. You don’t need a business case of three months hiring consultants to make you, “Yes, this is …” If nobody jumps on it, terrib... See more

What happens on the outside is strategy, what happens on the inside is action.