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[[1: Strategy is a philosophy of becoming]]
 
[[2: Four threads, woven together]]
 
3: What do people want?
 
[[4: The non-strategy of “Take what you can get”]]
 
[[5: Awaiting instructions]]
 
[[6: The elegant path is the most useful way forward]]
 
[[7: Not all elegant strategies are the same]]
 
[[8: Systems are unseen and persistent]]
 
[[9: We live in the solar system]]
 
[[10: Systems deliver value]]
 
11: The buildings or the roads?
 
[[12: The unseen assistant (and the mysterious vandal)]]
 
13: Can you see the river?
 
[[14: The collective]]
 
[[15: Successful systems]]
 
[[16: Real life isn’t LEGO]]
 
[[17: Two myths about systems]]
 
[[18: Built, natural, and complex systems]]
 
19: What makes a system?
 
[[20: The persistence of systems]]
 
[[21: From fine china to underwater headphones]]
 
[[22: Duncan Hines (and Nina Zagat)]]
 
[[23: All dogs are mixed breed dogs]]
 
[[24: U.S. News changed college]]
 
25: Where’s the meter?
 
[[26: Seeing (and changing) the chocolate system]]
 
[[27: Serious games]]
 
[[28: There are games in every strategy]]
 
[[29: We are all time travelers]]
 
[[30: Seeing time]]
 
[[31: There is a method]]
 
[[32: The heartbreak of an intuitive strategy]]
 
[[33: Hiding from a useful strategy]]
 
[[34: Low-hanging fruit isn’t]]
 
[[35: Rome was built in a day]]
 
[[36: One telephone is worthless]]
 
[[37: The desert island mythologies]]
 
[[38: Cities are contagious]]
 
[[39: Analyzing the last move]]
 
[[40: Strategy and tactics]]
 
[[41: Toward a strategic practice]]
 
[[42: Project work is different]]
 
[[43: You might need a strategy to]]
 
[[44: Slithering, with patience]]
 
[[45: Plants make people happy]]
 
[[46: Seat belts save lives]]
 
[[47: Airbnb was lost]]
 
[[48: Twenty-seven egg dishes]]
 
[[49: Esther changed the world]]
 
[[50: Shine a light]]
 
[[51: Big problems demand small solutions]]
 
[[52: “Getting the word out” (also known as “selfish shouting”)]]
 
[[53: Use, be used, or change it]]
 
[[54: Freedom is possible]]
 
[[55: Getting clear about the business model]]
 
[[56: And it flies]]
 
[[57: Passion and our business model]]
 
[[58: The circle of us and the circle of now]]
 
[[59: Selling selfish]]
 
[[60: Next guest, best guest]]
 
[[61: Seeing strategy clearly]]
 
[[62: A blueprint is an assertion]]
 
[[63: Sharing your strategy: The modern business plan]]
 
[[64: Intuition is strategy without narrative]]
 
[[65: The thing about effort numbered riffs.rtf]]
 
[[66: Resilience and leverage]]
 
[[67: It barely works]]
 
[[68: The minimum viable audience]]
 
69: And then what happens?
 
[[70: To kill all the whales]]
 
[[71: Not all needs have a market (yet).]]
 
[[72: Seeing the windmill]]
 
[[73: Without a strategy]]
 
[[74: Some reasons we avoid having a strategy]]
 
[[75: A framework for a strategy]]
 
[[76: Creating the conditions for change]]
 
[[77: Twelve slogans]]
 
[[78: Unseen systems and unintended consequences]]
 
[[79: We are not plankton]]
 
[[80: Strategic marketing]]
 
[[81: No time to waste]]
 
[[82: Strategy and aimlessness]]
 
[[83: “Should” might be a trap]]
 
84: Where is the blueprint?
 
[[85: Sooner or later]]
 
[[86: Strategy is the partner of freedom]]
 
[[87: The lottery is not a strategy]]
 
[[88: Nostalgia for the future]]
 
89: Doing our job or doing our work?
 
[[90: Tension first and above all]]
 
[[91: The fastest cyclist in the world]]
 
92: When did Apple become Apple?
 
93: When did Netflix become Netflix?
 
94: When did David Bowie become David Bowie?
 
95: What’s your strategy?
 
96: What does it mean to be a strategic thinker?
 
[[97: Tactics are not strategies]]
 
98: What’s a feedback loop?
 
[[99: Time isn’t free]]
 
[[100: Avoiding hindsight bias]]
 
[[101: Not the parts, the system]]
 
[[102: Thinking about ‘status’]]
 
[[103: Seeing status in Hollywood]]
 
[[104: The output of systems]]
 
[[105: Our intent is altered by the system we’re part of]]
 
[[106: The birth of Afya]]
 
[[107: Perpetuating the scam]]
 
[[108: Toxic systems]]
 
[[109: The urgency of “no”]]
 
[[110: On being judged]]
 
[[111: Choose your customers and choose your future.]]
 
[[112: Choose your competition and choose your future]]
 
[[113: Choose the source of validation and choose your future]]
 
[[114: Choose your distribution and choose your future]]
 
[[115: News, ideas, and distribution changes]]
 
[[116: “Everyone” is elusive]]
 
117: What do you want?
 
118: What does it want?
 
[[119: The runaway conditions]]
 
[[120: Things that scale]]
 
[[121: Working for the system]]
 
122: Who is in charge?
 
[[123: Snapshots and movies]]
 
[[124: The day I met Derek Sivers]]
 
[[125: The emperor penguins, crowds and fear]]
 
[[126: If you want to start a fire]]
 
[[127: The five steps to widespread change]]
 
[[128: Sand Hill Road]]
 
[[129: 100 is a fine way to start]]
 
[[130: Failing to change the donation dynamic numbered riffs.rtf]]
 
[[131: Shun the non-believers]]
 
[[132: Understanding adopters]]
 
[[133: Time is the overlooked axis]]
 
[[134: Getting comfortable with a series of snapshots]]
 
[[135: Embrace the gulf of disapproval]]
 
[[136: Deterministic Nonperiodic Flow proves the point]]
 
[[137: Chasing the hype cycle]]
 
[[138: Seeing the chasm]]
 
[[139: The need for scaffolding]]
 
[[140: Scaffolding and marketing]]
 
[[141: The Catch-22 of leveraged systems]]
 
[[142: Treating different people differently]]
 
[[143: Shifting to the masses]]
 
[[144: Misunderstanding quality]]
 
[[145: The challenge in finding useful criticism]]
 
[[146: Being clear about “better”]]
 
[[147: What we ask ourselves when it’s our turn on the curve]]
 
[[148: Short-term and long-term games]]
 
149: Infinite or finite?
 
150: Scarcity or abundance?
 
151: Dominance or affiliation?
 
[[152: Paying it forward vs. paying it back]]
 
153: Maintenance, substitution, or possibility?
 
[[154: Games of skill, luck and privilege]]
 
[[155: Games with divergent objectives]]
 
[[156: Mutual enrollment and complex games]]
 
[[157: Don’t bet on games you can’t win]]
 
[[158: All of our strategies are all of our strategies]]
 
[[159: Grabbing the last doughnut]]
 
[[160: Systems thrive, and then they don’t]]
 
[[161: To get to New York]]
 
[[162: If it fits, you can ship it]]
 
[[163: Feeding the system]]
 
[[164: Scarcity and the drivers of a system]]
 
[[165: Scale and magic]]
 
[[166: How NPR lost to the podcast]]
 
[[167: Self-interest is self-evident]]
 
[[168: It’s easy to avoid the most important part of our job]]
 
[[169: It’s voluntary]]
 
[[170: “I will if you will”]]
 
[[171: Bringing strategy to marketing]]
 
[[172: Living in a van]]
 
[[173: Acorns sometimes become oak trees]]
 
[[174: Systems have multiple objectives]]
 
[[175: One way to solve the problem is to change the system]]
 
[[176: Interoperability]]
 
177: What does the system respond to?
 
[[178: The paradox of substitutes and uniqueness]]
 
[[179: Commodities]]
 
[[180: Understanding genre]]
 
[[181: Medium vs. message]]
 
[[182: Thoughts on pricing]]
 
[[183: Strategies require empathy]]
 
[[184: Dorothy and her crew]]
 
[[185: Everyone is always right]]
 
[[186: All persistent systems rely on feedback loops]]
 
[[187: The wildcard in every feedback loop is the delay]]
 
[[188: Systems + games + feedback loops]]
 
[[189: Embracing constraints]]
 
190: Who benefits?
 
[[191: Six system traps]]
 
[[192: The Moses manipulations]]
 
[[193: Resilient systems stick around]]
 
[[194: Trying to turn me into an addict]]
 
[[195: The challenge of false proxies numbered riffs.rtf]]
 
[[196: We see systems when they are forced to change]]
 
197: May I see the org chart?
 
[[198: The agent of change]]
 
[[199: Looking for the agent of change]]
 
[[200: The telegraph and the skyscraper]]
 
[[201: Cheese bullies]]
 
[[202: A brief history of jaywalking]]
 
203: What will I tell the others?
 
204: Who says yes?
 
[[205: If you want to use the system]]
 
[[206: The person in front of you is part of a system]]
 
[[207: Some of the ways that systems operate]]
 
[[208: Types of elegant strategies]]
 
[[209: Bringing change to a system]]
 
[[210: Luck doesn’t even out in the long run]]
 
[[211: Leverage and the exaggeration of strategies]]
 
[[212: Intent and side effects]]
 
[[213: Turbulence and systems transformation]]
 
[[214: Gatekeepers]]
 
[[215: Kinds of tension]]
 
216: “What will I tell the others?”
 
[[217: Two Tesla parables: Ludicrous and the clown car]]
 
[[218: Competitive advantage]]
 
[[219: Metcalfe’s law is waiting for you]]
 
[[220: The first rule...]]
 
[[221: Do vs. want]]
 
[[222: Exchanging the system is tempting]]
 
[[223: Revolutions are rare]]
 
[[224: The game belongs to the children who play it]]
 
[[225: The two unseen desires]]
 
[[226: The thing about cheaper]]
 
[[227: Compounding our tribal instincts]]
 
[[228: Substitutes and the race to the bottom]]
 
[[229: Seeking the invisible hand]]
 
[[230: Examples of systems living in tension]]
 
231: Which hat?
 
[[232: The weather report is a prediction]]
 
[[233: This might not work]]
 
[[234: Back to the rhino]]
 
235: Who controls the dice?
 
236: Who is waiting for you at the airport?
 
[[237: Understanding statistics and polls]]
 
[[238: Best practices and the status quo]]
 
[[239: Analogies and the problem with “almost”]]
 
[[240: Cheerleaders and coaches]]
 
[[241: Collapsing to the center]]
 
[[242: Understanding the 2 x 2 positioning grid]]
 
[[243: The blank of blank]]
 
[[244: Moving to the middle (or not)]]
 
[[245: Going to places the competition can’t go or won’t go]]
 
246: Where is everyone?
 
[[247: Getting the word out]]
 
[[248: Scaling better]]
 
[[249: Half a boat isn’t much help]]
 
[[250: Thrashing at the start]]
 
[[251: The last minute]]
 
[[252: Every yes requires many no’s]]
 
[[253: Empathy for the retailer]]
 
[[254: Bringing intention to projects]]
 
[[255: Successful projects]]
 
[[256: The three project traps]]
 
[[257: Communication with intent]]
 
[[258: Risks aren’t to be avoided]]
 
[[259: Constraints are a gift]]
 
260: What do you make?
 
[[261: Problems are opportunities]]
 
[[262: The simple hierarchy of decision effort]]
 
[[263: Optionality and undo]]
 
[[264: Great choice, didn’t work]]
 
[[265: Hidden decisions get moldy]]
 
266: Compared to what?
 
[[267: A quarter of a million dollars]]
 
[[268: Thinking about money]]
 
[[269: No regrets and the kinds of games we play]]
 
270: Why is it hard to talk about decisions?
 
[[271: Bad luck paralysis]]
 
[[272: Survivors are noteworthy]]
 
[[273: The regression toward the mean]]
 
[[274: Better decisions and better outcomes]]
 
[[275: Not making a decision is the easy path]]
 
[[276: Assets are tools]]
 
[[277: Assets over time]]
 
278: What sort of hammer should you buy?
 
[[279: Community action]]
 
[[280: The man who poisoned us all]]
 
[[281: The enduring myth of widespread self-control]]
 
[[282: Bringing a strategic approach to the most urgent system change of our lifetimes]]
 
[[283: Helping the market fix what the market broke]]
 
[[284: Harnessing the insatiable]]
 
[[285: The action we take]]
 
[[286: Indoctrination is real]]
 
[[287: The journey, not an event]]
 
[[288: Constant pressure and chiseling]]
 
[[289: Coordination failure]]
 
[[290: Asynchronicity is a superpower]]
 
[[291: Ignoring sunk costs: A simple But uncomfortable idea]]
 
292: What does “wrong” mean?
 
[[293: Tomorrow is another opportunity]]
 
[[294: Ignore sunk clowns]]
 
295: What to wear on Wednesday?
 
[[296: People like us]]
 
[[297: Questions that lead to strategies]]
 
[[Main Page]]
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Revision as of 16:03, 4 October 2024

Welcome to Our Global Meetup!

This is a wiki for readers of Seth Godin's new book, THIS IS STRATEGY.

Every article in the book has a number, and that number corresponds to a page on this wiki.

The purpose of this wiki is connection and discussion. It's not for promotion or selling.

Find an article and chime in. Thanks for being here.

1: Strategy is a philosophy of becoming

2: Four threads, woven together

3: What do people want?

4: The non-strategy of “Take what you can get”

5: Awaiting instructions

6: The elegant path is the most useful way forward

7: Not all elegant strategies are the same

8: Systems are unseen and persistent

9: We live in the solar system

10: Systems deliver value

11: The buildings or the roads?

12: The unseen assistant (and the mysterious vandal)

13: Can you see the river?

14: The collective

15: Successful systems

16: Real life isn’t LEGO

17: Two myths about systems

18: Built, natural, and complex systems

19: What makes a system?

20: The persistence of systems

21: From fine china to underwater headphones

22: Duncan Hines (and Nina Zagat)

23: All dogs are mixed breed dogs

24: U.S. News changed college

25: Where’s the meter?

26: Seeing (and changing) the chocolate system

27: Serious games

28: There are games in every strategy

29: We are all time travelers

30: Seeing time

31: There is a method

32: The heartbreak of an intuitive strategy

33: Hiding from a useful strategy

34: Low-hanging fruit isn’t

35: Rome was built in a day

36: One telephone is worthless

37: The desert island mythologies

38: Cities are contagious

39: Analyzing the last move

40: Strategy and tactics

41: Toward a strategic practice

42: Project work is different

43: You might need a strategy to

44: Slithering, with patience

45: Plants make people happy

46: Seat belts save lives

47: Airbnb was lost

48: Twenty-seven egg dishes

49: Esther changed the world

50: Shine a light

51: Big problems demand small solutions

52: “Getting the word out” (also known as “selfish shouting”)

53: Use, be used, or change it

54: Freedom is possible

55: Getting clear about the business model

56: And it flies

57: Passion and our business model

58: The circle of us and the circle of now

59: Selling selfish

60: Next guest, best guest

61: Seeing strategy clearly

62: A blueprint is an assertion

63: Sharing your strategy: The modern business plan

64: Intuition is strategy without narrative

65: The thing about effort numbered riffs.rtf

66: Resilience and leverage

67: It barely works

68: The minimum viable audience

69: And then what happens?

70: To kill all the whales

71: Not all needs have a market (yet).

72: Seeing the windmill

73: Without a strategy

74: Some reasons we avoid having a strategy

75: A framework for a strategy

76: Creating the conditions for change

77: Twelve slogans

78: Unseen systems and unintended consequences

79: We are not plankton

80: Strategic marketing

81: No time to waste

82: Strategy and aimlessness

83: “Should” might be a trap

84: Where is the blueprint?

85: Sooner or later

86: Strategy is the partner of freedom

87: The lottery is not a strategy

88: Nostalgia for the future

89: Doing our job or doing our work?

90: Tension first and above all

91: The fastest cyclist in the world

92: When did Apple become Apple?

93: When did Netflix become Netflix?

94: When did David Bowie become David Bowie?

95: What’s your strategy?

96: What does it mean to be a strategic thinker?

97: Tactics are not strategies

98: What’s a feedback loop?

99: Time isn’t free

100: Avoiding hindsight bias

101: Not the parts, the system

102: Thinking about ‘status’

103: Seeing status in Hollywood

104: The output of systems

105: Our intent is altered by the system we’re part of

106: The birth of Afya

107: Perpetuating the scam

108: Toxic systems

109: The urgency of “no”

110: On being judged

111: Choose your customers and choose your future.

112: Choose your competition and choose your future

113: Choose the source of validation and choose your future

114: Choose your distribution and choose your future

115: News, ideas, and distribution changes

116: “Everyone” is elusive

117: What do you want?

118: What does it want?

119: The runaway conditions

120: Things that scale

121: Working for the system

122: Who is in charge?

123: Snapshots and movies

124: The day I met Derek Sivers

125: The emperor penguins, crowds and fear

126: If you want to start a fire

127: The five steps to widespread change

128: Sand Hill Road

129: 100 is a fine way to start

130: Failing to change the donation dynamic numbered riffs.rtf

131: Shun the non-believers

132: Understanding adopters

133: Time is the overlooked axis

134: Getting comfortable with a series of snapshots

135: Embrace the gulf of disapproval

136: Deterministic Nonperiodic Flow proves the point

137: Chasing the hype cycle

138: Seeing the chasm

139: The need for scaffolding

140: Scaffolding and marketing

141: The Catch-22 of leveraged systems

142: Treating different people differently

143: Shifting to the masses

144: Misunderstanding quality

145: The challenge in finding useful criticism

146: Being clear about “better”

147: What we ask ourselves when it’s our turn on the curve

148: Short-term and long-term games

149: Infinite or finite?

150: Scarcity or abundance?

151: Dominance or affiliation?

152: Paying it forward vs. paying it back

153: Maintenance, substitution, or possibility?

154: Games of skill, luck and privilege

155: Games with divergent objectives

156: Mutual enrollment and complex games

157: Don’t bet on games you can’t win

158: All of our strategies are all of our strategies

159: Grabbing the last doughnut

160: Systems thrive, and then they don’t

161: To get to New York

162: If it fits, you can ship it

163: Feeding the system

164: Scarcity and the drivers of a system

165: Scale and magic

166: How NPR lost to the podcast

167: Self-interest is self-evident

168: It’s easy to avoid the most important part of our job

169: It’s voluntary

170: “I will if you will”

171: Bringing strategy to marketing

172: Living in a van

173: Acorns sometimes become oak trees

174: Systems have multiple objectives

175: One way to solve the problem is to change the system

176: Interoperability

177: What does the system respond to?

178: The paradox of substitutes and uniqueness

179: Commodities

180: Understanding genre

181: Medium vs. message

182: Thoughts on pricing

183: Strategies require empathy

184: Dorothy and her crew

185: Everyone is always right

186: All persistent systems rely on feedback loops

187: The wildcard in every feedback loop is the delay

188: Systems + games + feedback loops

189: Embracing constraints

190: Who benefits?

191: Six system traps

192: The Moses manipulations

193: Resilient systems stick around

194: Trying to turn me into an addict

195: The challenge of false proxies numbered riffs.rtf

196: We see systems when they are forced to change

197: May I see the org chart?

198: The agent of change

199: Looking for the agent of change

200: The telegraph and the skyscraper

201: Cheese bullies

202: A brief history of jaywalking

203: What will I tell the others?

204: Who says yes?

205: If you want to use the system

206: The person in front of you is part of a system

207: Some of the ways that systems operate

208: Types of elegant strategies

209: Bringing change to a system

210: Luck doesn’t even out in the long run

211: Leverage and the exaggeration of strategies

212: Intent and side effects

213: Turbulence and systems transformation

214: Gatekeepers

215: Kinds of tension

216: “What will I tell the others?”

217: Two Tesla parables: Ludicrous and the clown car

218: Competitive advantage

219: Metcalfe’s law is waiting for you

220: The first rule...

221: Do vs. want

222: Exchanging the system is tempting

223: Revolutions are rare

224: The game belongs to the children who play it

225: The two unseen desires

226: The thing about cheaper

227: Compounding our tribal instincts

228: Substitutes and the race to the bottom

229: Seeking the invisible hand

230: Examples of systems living in tension

231: Which hat?

232: The weather report is a prediction

233: This might not work

234: Back to the rhino

235: Who controls the dice?

236: Who is waiting for you at the airport?

237: Understanding statistics and polls

238: Best practices and the status quo

239: Analogies and the problem with “almost”

240: Cheerleaders and coaches

241: Collapsing to the center

242: Understanding the 2 x 2 positioning grid

243: The blank of blank

244: Moving to the middle (or not)

245: Going to places the competition can’t go or won’t go

246: Where is everyone?

247: Getting the word out

248: Scaling better

249: Half a boat isn’t much help

250: Thrashing at the start

251: The last minute

252: Every yes requires many no’s

253: Empathy for the retailer

254: Bringing intention to projects

255: Successful projects

256: The three project traps

257: Communication with intent

258: Risks aren’t to be avoided

259: Constraints are a gift

260: What do you make?

261: Problems are opportunities

262: The simple hierarchy of decision effort

263: Optionality and undo

264: Great choice, didn’t work

265: Hidden decisions get moldy

266: Compared to what?

267: A quarter of a million dollars

268: Thinking about money

269: No regrets and the kinds of games we play

270: Why is it hard to talk about decisions?

271: Bad luck paralysis

272: Survivors are noteworthy

273: The regression toward the mean

274: Better decisions and better outcomes

275: Not making a decision is the easy path

276: Assets are tools

277: Assets over time

278: What sort of hammer should you buy?

279: Community action

280: The man who poisoned us all

281: The enduring myth of widespread self-control

282: Bringing a strategic approach to the most urgent system change of our lifetimes

283: Helping the market fix what the market broke

284: Harnessing the insatiable

285: The action we take

286: Indoctrination is real

287: The journey, not an event

288: Constant pressure and chiseling

289: Coordination failure

290: Asynchronicity is a superpower

291: Ignoring sunk costs: A simple But uncomfortable idea

292: What does “wrong” mean?

293: Tomorrow is another opportunity

294: Ignore sunk clowns

295: What to wear on Wednesday?

296: People like us

297: Questions that lead to strategies

Main Page

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