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Jason George: articles on strategy, management and business jargon
I’m a management consultant and writer, exploring ideas on strategy and how organizations work, plus some of the jargon that permeates business.
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- How giving away value can create moreSomething for all
- No safety net, fewer options, and the value of constraintsLess is more
- Activation energy and making things happenOvercome the hurdle
- Sari shops and the power of reciprocityQuid pro tea
- Innovation and hacking regulationCaught in loopholes
Word of the week
a term from finance that is misused to indicate variance, as in “There shouldn’t be much beta on that product’s month-to-month sales”; this is subtly but significantly incorrect, as beta is technically a measure of covariance, showing how an asset’s price is expected to fluctuate in relation to a broader market index; using this term...
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