Ilana Ettinger
@ilanaettinger1
Ilana Ettinger
Greenwald proclaimed that competitive advantages fell into two distinct camps, customer captivity and resource captivity , and that the strength of these advantages were a function of scale.
Rick Zullo • Companies Build “Capabilities” Before They Build “Moats”
The bottom line is that 7 Rules of Power provides a clear roadmap for increasing your personal power and status over other people, if that’s what you’re looking to achieve. But it neglects to wrestle fully with the negative impacts of the tactics it espouses.
Charter • ‘7 Rules of Power’ by Jeffrey Pfeffer: How good people can accumulate power
Grappa
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Status Signaling and
On being an early adopter of organic cotton in Patagonia's garments: “The constraints we place on ourselves require innovation that then sets us apart from other companies”
Rodney Evans • How Patagonia became Patagonia w/ Vincent Stanley
“But the Greeks and the Romans both believed in the idea of an external daemon of creativity—a sort of house elf, if you will, who lived within the walls of your home and who sometimes aided you in your labors. The Romans had a specific term for that helpful house elf. They called it your genius—your guardian deity, the conduit of your inspiration.... See more
The labor-market conditions that will generate convergence in pay between genders – the technological and institutional changes that reduce the cost of temporal flexibility – will make life better for almost everybody.
Claudia Goldin • How to Achieve Gender Equality
How to do it: 1. Define a larger cause. 2. Articulate the problem better than anyone else. 3. Attack the status quo. 4. Define a category. 5. Build the right team. 6. Use “grassroots” customer testimony. 7. Release news in lightning strikes, not dribs and drabs. 8. Organize events to focus attention.9. Nurture your community... See more
sacks.substack.com • Your Startup Is a Movement
Knowledge work is less structured, more spontaneous, and harder to teach. “Our knowledge,” says Glaeser, “builds on things that we learn from people around us.“ Being close to other knowledge workers makes it easier for us to learn new things and develop new ideas. As such, knowledge work is best done in cities.