Good Synthesis is the Start of Good Sensemaking - Commoncog
Join 8,000+ sharp investors and operators like yourself, and we'll send you a collection of Commoncog's best articles right away: Note: this post is a follow-up to last week's summary of the strategic theories of John Boyd, and leans rather heavily on some of the ideas in that essay. Let us pretend that you are a laminate manufacturer. In case you don’t know what laminates are: laminates are a surfacing material that is used to trick people into thinking that they are looking at wood or metal or stone. You’ve probably seen them if you’ve spent any amount of time in a fast food restaurant — in fact, the odds are good that at least one surface in your house right now has a laminate top. Laminates are a composite material: it is made up of several layers of paper, a colour sheet, and a clear melamine overlay. The layers are saturated with a resin (think of resins as a glue, with an equivalent drying time known as a ‘cure time’) and are then compressed in large industrial presses under gre
Good Synthesis is the Start of Good Sensemaking - Commoncog --> This is part of the Market topic cluster, which belongs to the Business Expertise Triad . Thinking Better , Business Thinking Good Synthesis is the Start of Good Sensemaking By Cedric Chin Table of Contents The thought of business school make you go ‘eww’? You’re in good company. 9,000+ investors and operators read Commoncog to sharpen their business acumen ... WITHOUT going back to school. Sign up for our newsletter and get a weekly dose of good business thinking (no BS guaranteed): Subscribe Note: this post is a follow-up to las
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