competing

The Holy Grail of Competing By Mark Chussil Disruption and blue ocean are the holy grails of competing. With them, you don’t even have to compete. Blue ocean is pacific. It’s gentle, as grails go; it doesn’t bother anyone; it’s just wonderful and new. Disruption is the bad boy of holy grails. It sees the […]

One-Trial Learning By Mark Chussil I love data. I spent 15 years working with the PIMS (Profit Impact of Market Strategy) database alongside academic luminaries. (I was in the room but I was not in their league.) Many years later, I think it’s fun to run and analyze a few billion simulations before breakfast. I […]

Two takes on Uber and its high-profile, highly controversial tactics. Who’s the bad guy, Uber, Lyft, or the media?

How do upstarts win? Why do incumbents lose? Upstarts can only win if incumbents let themselves lose.

There’s a theory of competing behind the baloney on a company’s box of cereal. It seems not to fit the company’s number-one corporate value: “We do the right thing, all the time.”