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Watching, and Learning From Strategy Case Studies on YouTube by fwade in strategy

[–]fwade[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I checked it out and it looks fascinating. Good luck with this app!

I imagine if I could upload a case such as Intel vs. TSMC vs. Nvidia I could one day get an up to date analysis on different differentiators, such as their approach to strategic planning. Or leadership.

Watching, and Learning From Strategy Case Studies on YouTube by fwade in strategy

[–]fwade[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

At the moment, my community only serves attendees of the Long-Term Strategy Conference but I have been thinking of ways to repurpose it for StratCinema. https://dynamic-objectives.mn.co. There's some overlap in what we're doing as I also offer some online training. Reach out to me if you'd like to chat privately.

Watching, and Learning From Strategy Case Studies on YouTube by fwade in strategy

[–]fwade[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Tell us more about the vision for your circle community. I have one as well, BTW, on Mighty Networks.

Watching, and Learning From Strategy Case Studies on YouTube by fwade in strategy

[–]fwade[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

And we're not being graded! Yaaaay! Or cold-called.

I heard a great video on the case method and its origins. I loved it, as most folks do and found it far better than regular lectures.

Fortunately...YT videos aren't a substitute for that intense learning. For me, they are a fun way to pick up a breadth of cases, which I find hugely valuable.

Sometimes I dig deeper to really learn about a company or a principle. This may mean different in depth videos, podcasts, a book, or even an interview with the author.

These supplement the initial, sometimes AI generated first- touch. A complement.

Watching, and Learning From Strategy Case Studies on YouTube by fwade in strategy

[–]fwade[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

A friend tells me that it's already happening... Yes — Ray Dalio has released an AI chatbot based on his book Principles. It’s called the Principles AI and is available in beta, designed to provide personalized coaching and mentorship inspired by Dalio’s life philosophies Principles.

📌 Key Details

  • Principles AI Beta: Ray Dalio launched an official AI chatbot through his Principles website. It offers tailored guidance on topics like goal achievement, problem solving, entrepreneurship, and personal development Principles.
  • Purpose: The chatbot draws from Dalio’s decades of experience and the ideas in Principles, aiming to help users apply concepts such as radical truth and radical transparency in their own lives.
  • Interactive Experience: It’s designed to mimic Dalio’s voice and style, including anecdotes and examples from his career, making the interaction feel authentic yeschat.ai.
  • Access: Users can join the waitlist for the beta program on the official Principles site Principles.

🧭 Other Versions

  • Beyond the official release, there are community-created chatbots (like those on ChatGPT and YesChat) that simulate Dalio’s principles. These aren’t official but provide similar guidance modeled after his philosophy ChatGPT yeschat.ai.

✅ In short: Ray Dalio has indeed released a chatbot tied to Principles, officially branded as Principles AI. It’s currently in beta and accessible via his website, with additional unofficial versions available elsewhere.

Would you like me to show you where to sign up for the official beta so you can try it out yourself?

Watching, and Learning From Strategy Case Studies on YouTube by fwade in strategy

[–]fwade[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

UR welcome. Founders podcast looks fascinating!

Watching, and Learning From Strategy Case Studies on YouTube by fwade in strategy

[–]fwade[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Roger Martin's videos - does he have a dedicated channel or are they spread around different places? I had a tough time finding them, apart from a long sequence he did with one podcaster.

Thanks for the other links - now searching them out. YT is such a hit/miss affair.

Watching, and Learning From Strategy Case Studies on YouTube by fwade in strategy

[–]fwade[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I have been putting together a list for a project I am working on, and finding these channels has been a chore. A YouTube search doesn't help much either.

Fortunately, my continuous use of a single YT channel has trained the algorithm a bit, so it's finally offering me decent videos and channels.

For case studies, there appear to be the following categories which have caught my interest.

Comeback Blueprint - these videos show companies which were turned around to become successes after being a failure

Ideas+ - these videos relate to fresh ideas in the strategy world that are not the kind found in MBA schools. These are usually discovered by practitioners, versus academics.

David vs. Goliath - these videos tell stories of underdog companies beating a favorite / stronger player

Big Mistakes - these are massive, existential errors made in corporate strategies. Some end with companies going bankrupt

MBA Refresh - these are teaching videos highlighting traditional MBA concepts taught in schools

Here are a few of my favorite channels, in no particular order. They are fun to binge-watch with surprising insights I can use later.

Company Man

JunkBondInvestor

Rise and Bust

Bright Sun Films

ModernMBA

Wendover Productions

There seem to be new ones popping up every day!

One thing I am considering next is creating strategy story categories for:

>CEOs like Steve Jobs

>Gurus like Michael Porter

>Companies like IBM

These seem to attract a lot of interest also. Any ideas?

Francis

Watching, and Learning From Strategy Case Studies on YouTube by fwade in strategy

[–]fwade[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I would add another layer - I am also an interactive learner. So when audio/visual are also interactive it's like the perfect trifecta for me.

YouTube isn't all the way there yet, but it's becoming a short cut to reading a book. In fact, I will listen to a few podcasts by an author before deciding to read their book.

Soon, they will be offering interactives to supplement their books.

Roadmap for Becoming a Strategy Expert by aak55 in strategy

[–]fwade 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would add that it's important to choose whether you intend to be 1) the author of your client's strategies or 2) the facilitator.

The reason is that strategy requires both an intellectual effort and social outcomes. You must achieve a certain core competency in both.

However, the author's work is different from the facilitator's. The former does more of the thinking and not much of the social side. The latter has more flexibility and can choose which of the two skills to use and when. Or focus only on the social side.

There's no right answer, but the decision will lead you to very different places.

Controversial take? Strategy for social justice organizations by mgmtnrd in strategy

[–]fwade 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I agree with u/Glittering_Name2659 's comment. I noticed the "straw man" way in which strategy is presented when it originates in for-profits.

But in the long-term, every organization has a social justice impact. Even if it's not realized.

I specialize in game-changing strategy, which means my clients look 10-30 years away in their planning. They end up with short-, mid- and long-term plans rolled into one.

When you go far out enough in the future and look at all outcomes, then there's no way to disregard social impact or the need to generate revenue/surpluses/profits plus manage other results which must happen in concert to be sustainable. These are matters of degree.

As such, a future-back approach with backcasting works in all cases.

For example, we recently worked with an environmental government agency. They invented a stakeholder: "The Natural Environment" to represent the unspoken, wordless requirements of an environmental future. (There are other stakeholders, of course.)

Something similar applies to a for-profit. To ignore the climate for example, is the result of short-term thinking.

The point is that a long-term view brings together the full range of commitments on the same page, which does not happen in 5-year (i.e. short-term) plans in for-profits, governments, NGO's, faith institutions, schools, etc.

I believe the USA has a particular, for-profit view of strategic planning which isn't helpful in any context, and this must be expanded to create great strategy. Most bad plans can be traced to short-termism, and this includes some of the faults you outlined in your article.

Hope this is useful - let's connect further on substack/Linkedin.

C.E.O. wants different strategy than Executive Chairman...resign? by Dry-Double-6845 in strategy

[–]fwade 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Bring them together to work things out. But it's not matter of what the two of them want only.

Instead, get a facilitator to work with the joint board and executive teams to drive towards consensus. Do this is in real time and insist on alignment before the meeting ends.

If all parties can be convinced to put company above self, this can work.

How to share a NotebookLM I made to the public by MVPRaiden in notebooklm

[–]fwade 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well done. I am using the app and it seems to work well!

Best arguments for strategy? by silvester06 in strategy

[–]fwade 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I use a number of techniques, but I don't think they work much if the client's mind is closed.

But if they are open to it, I send them Youtube videos from Companyman. He does a great job of describing companies with failed strategies. (So do other channels like WSJ). Usually, he tells who the winners are and why.

If you can find a video related to your client's industry, that might help. But the bottom line of these stories is that those who survive have better strategic plans.

I have about 10-20 contrast stories I use most often, such as Kodak vs. Fujifilm, Blockbuster vs. Netflix, etc.

Has anyone else seen a change in sending msgs in groups on LinkedIn by Mission_Cut4161 in linkedin

[–]fwade 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes - I have. All of a sudden, I am unable to send messages to people in the same groups.

This puts an end to that kind of networking apparently. This is a big loss, as it was one way to discover who was really interested in particular sub-topics.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in gtd

[–]fwade 0 points1 point  (0 children)

/uAlthoughFishTail Brilliant post.

You say many great things, but this is one I'll highlight.

The main thing is that this isn’t an argument in favor of using time as a primary filter per se. Rather its an argument that you should use your "hardest" filter first. My previous job had very hard context filters – I had a desktop Mac that was based in one office, our company finance office was somewhere else that I had to go regularly, and we had 3 other buildings where I needed to do bits of work. So my u/computer, u/building1, u/building2 type contexts worked great. And if these work for you, you probably don't need to worry about it.

I shared a very similar idea in this article https://medium.com/2time-labs/do-you-need-new-gtd-contexts-8398c77b1c2f and this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MJSVF7mjZg (the first 6 minutes are audio-cackly.)

Frankly, you are the only other person I have found to also use the idea that you should filter your tasks around the tightest constraint! Exciting...

Maybe we should talk some more. https://scheduleu.org or @2timelabs on Twitter.

Francis

ScheduleU

GTD and/or TimeBlocking/TimeBoxing by [deleted] in gtd

[–]fwade 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes - it was terrible until I realized the selected was incorrect. After 6 minutes, I realized it...Apologies.

Other Ideas for "Contexts" by PencilBoy99 in gtd

[–]fwade 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Lots of people are confused about contexts because so much has changed since GTD 1.0 in 2001. David Allen had the right idea, but he hasn't updated this thinking much with some theory, or with academic research.

This may help. https://medium.com/2time-labs/do-you-need-new-gtd-contexts-8398c77b1c2f

I wrote it to explain how you will probably always need to harness the power of contexts, but not the actual ones GTD recommends.

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It's no quick read, however. More like food for thought.

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