This is Strategy - Seth Godin
Summary
- Strongly focused on business strategy
How I discovered it
- I always enjoy Seth Godins work, though this particular book seemed a bit longer than usual
How the book changed me
- This book has a large collection of ideas that are not necessarily related to each other. But there are a number that i intend to make use of.
Details
- Try to design elegant solutions
- All dogs are mixed breed dogs
- Dont focus on the most recent event as the point of failure
- Over time, a small headstart becomes a huge advantage
- Serve the smallest viable audience with something they love
- Your circle of people and time should always be expanding
- When a system changes, the first iteration is usually imperfect and rough
- Use short term games to build long term assets
- Trying to win at social media is like working for free for youtube, tiktok or instagram
- Create conditions that will get people what they want in order to persuade them to join you
- Systems are optimized to slow things down, not to prevent them once they start
- Forward movement with optionality gives the best futures
- Resilience means being in a situation to take advantage of positive random occurence and to survive negative random occurence
- Money is just a tool. Don't view it in an emotional way.