Strategy

Overview

These skills are about understanding how to structure decisions to achieve a goal. You need to be able to apply strategic frameworks to analyze decisions and provide strong rationale.

Frameworks

Frameworks are mental models that help you quickly identify a decision. Frameworks aren't meant to be directly applied out of the box, but they are great starting points that you can tweak to fit your situation. Most of these frameworks help you orient a large strategic problem and cover known bases.

• 4Ps of Marketing
• Porter’s 5 Forces
• Build vs. Buy ‍

Concepts

There are a large number of strategic concepts out there, but you'll come to find that most are variants and plays on each other applied to different problem sets. There's a lot of literature out there, but for starting purposes, you just need to know the following:

• Marginal Cost
• Product Lifecycle
• Competitive Advantage
• Economies of Scale
• Network Effects ‍

Further Learning

• Stratechery: a popular tech strategy blog
• Innovator's Dilemma: a classic on tech innovation strategy
• Zero to One: a Silicon Valley favorite in startup strategy

Checklist