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> one of the most profound insights in Thiel's excellent book, Zero to One. Which was an insight in Blue Ocean Strategy (Kim & Mauborgne, 2005). And before th
by jacques_chester 12y ago
> one of the most profound insights in Thiel's excellent book, Zero to One.
Which was an insight in Blue Ocean Strategy (Kim & Mauborgne, 2005).
And before that, if you squint, in Competitive Strategy (Porter, 1980) and Competitive Advantage (Porter, 1980).
And the B-school theorists basically got their ideas by peeking over the fence of the Economics dept at how monopolies are formed and abuse their power and saying "hey, let's teach that to our students".
- lancewiggs 12y agoAnd Drucker's Innovation and Entrepreneurship a bit latter that decade. I recommend all of them and also Porter's 5 forces update article in HBR.
- jacques_chester 12y agoAnd I won't be surprised if someone pops up with a Sun Tzu quote before long. (I'll leave Ecclesiastes 1:9 as an exercise for the reader.)
- bbcbasic 12y agoSupreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.
- jsprogrammer 12y agoAnd before that, Morgan, Rockefeller, etc. And before that, George(s), Charles, Henry, James, Elizabeth, Kahn, Alexander, etc, etc.
- rokhayakebe 12y agoCorrect, all emperors had a clear goal of monopolizing all lands as far as their boats, camels, horses, feet would take them.
- xasos 12y agoThose were a different kind of monopoly - Rockefeller bought up a bunch of companies inp N already big oil market. Thiel suggests becoming a monopoly in a small market and vertically integrating