Reading
Things I read a lot.
The books, sites, and tools I keep going back to and point people to, with a line on why.
Competitive Strategy Dynamics, Kim Warren Sterman's ideas pointed at strategy. Customers, staff and cash build up and drain away over time, and strategy is steering those flows. Read it after Meadows and Sterman. book Commoncog: The Business Triad Cedric Chin's map of what business skill is made of. Meadows, Sterman and Warren show how a business moves. This shows which parts to watch while it does. post Boyd, Robert Coram The other half of the Caro lesson. A colonel with no formal authority who changed how the Air Force thinks. book Business Dynamics, John Sterman The heavy version of Meadows. Where feedback loops reinforce, where they fight, and where the leverage is. book The Power Broker, Robert Caro How one man ran New York for forty years without ever being elected. Power in big organizations comes from odd places. book Thinking in Bets, Annie Duke Judge the decision, not the result. Would you make the same call with the same information? Then it was a good call. book Thinking in Systems, Donella Meadows How the parts of a business push on each other. Read this one first, then Sterman, then Warren. book Agent Flywheel Where I do AI coding now. A VM instead of my own machine, so an agent can run for hours without touching anything I care about. site Commoncog: Business Expertise The best writing I know on what it means to be good at business, as a skill you can practice. site