7 Powers

Perimeter Solutions: The Cornered Resource That Almost Wasn’t

Magic, monopoly and fire retardants

Aug 23 • The School of Knowledge

The 7 Types of Business Power: Cornered Resource

Why exclusive access to a single irreplaceable asset beats billions in capital

Aug 17 • The School of Knowledge

Hermes: 189 Years of Excellence

Six generations of "savoir faire"

Aug 9 • The School of Knowledge

How Brand Empires Are Built

And how to tell the difference between brand recognition and Power

Aug 2 • The School of Knowledge

TransDigm: Switching Costs at 30,000ft

A regulatory barrier that's hard to breach

Jul 5 • The School of Knowledge

How Netflix Upended an Industry

What counter-positioning and scale economies look like in business

Jun 14 • The School of Knowledge

The 7 Types of Business Power: Counter Positioning

How rational choices and cognitive biases paralyse businesses

Mar 28 • The School of Knowledge

The 7 Types of Business Power: Network Economies

Why Meta's 3.5 billion users make It almost impossible to compete with

Mar 4 • The School of Knowledge

The 7 Types of Business Power: Scale Economies

Why Intel can't catch TSMC

Feb 25 • The School of Knowledge

Why Value Creation Alone Isn't a MOAT (yet)

An introduction to the 7 Powers

Feb 17 • The School of Knowledge

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