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022 - Easy Series #2 - Yield vs Struggle
Today we're going to focus on the concept of yield—both high-yielding activities and their opposite, wheel spinning. The world's top performers always focus on getting the most bang for their buck. From business to combat and everything in-between, this is a pretty steady rule.
Investing Topics and Links
The Superinvestors of Graham-and-Doddsville https://www8.gsb.columbia.edu/articles/columbia-business/superinvestors
Joel Greenblatt's The Little Book That Beats the Market and You Can Be a Stock Market Genius, Tobias Carlisle's The Acquirer's Multiple, Ben Graham's Security Analysis
Business Topics and Links
Jocko Willink's phrase "prioritize and execute," Richard Koch's The 80/20 Principle, Peter Drucker's The Effective Executive, Gabriel Weinberg's Traction, Eric Ries' The Lean Startup, Kim and Mauborgne's Blue Ocean Strategy, Ries and Trout's The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing, Peter Thiel's Zero to One
Entrepreneurship Topics and Links
Elaine Pofeldt's The Million-Dollar One-Person Business, Chris Guillebeau's Side Hustle and The $100 Startup
Joshua Kennon's essay on synthetic equity https://web.archive.org/web/20150109034520/https://www.joshuakennon.com/creating-and-using-synthetic-equity-to-make-money/
Calvin Hawkes' Soul Ceramics
Combat
David Kilcullen's The Snakes and the Dragons: How the Rest Learned to Fight the West
Grappling
Helio Gracie
Athletics
Pine City's basketball team https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-basketball-team-that-never-takes-a-bad-shot-1485788165
Pulaski Academy's football team https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/sports/wp/2015/08/13/the-highly-successful-high-school-coach-who-never-punts-has-another-radical-idea/
Money Ball
FiveThirtyEight's 3-Pointer study https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/nearly-every-team-is-playing-like-the-rockets-and-thats-hurting-the-rockets/
LeBron James https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/23384071/lebron-james-plays-rests-keep-cleveland-cavaliers-hopes-alive
Support Links
Rate and review the podcast at https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/strategy-chain/id1492935567 Find Amazon affiliate links at http://strategychainpodcast.com/support Send me questions at http://strategychainpodcast.com/contact Sign up for the email list at http://strategychainpodcast.com/ Social Media @strategychain (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Medium)
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By Michael RobersonToday we're going to focus on the concept of yield—both high-yielding activities and their opposite, wheel spinning. The world's top performers always focus on getting the most bang for their buck. From business to combat and everything in-between, this is a pretty steady rule.
Investing Topics and Links
The Superinvestors of Graham-and-Doddsville https://www8.gsb.columbia.edu/articles/columbia-business/superinvestors
Joel Greenblatt's The Little Book That Beats the Market and You Can Be a Stock Market Genius, Tobias Carlisle's The Acquirer's Multiple, Ben Graham's Security Analysis
Business Topics and Links
Jocko Willink's phrase "prioritize and execute," Richard Koch's The 80/20 Principle, Peter Drucker's The Effective Executive, Gabriel Weinberg's Traction, Eric Ries' The Lean Startup, Kim and Mauborgne's Blue Ocean Strategy, Ries and Trout's The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing, Peter Thiel's Zero to One
Entrepreneurship Topics and Links
Elaine Pofeldt's The Million-Dollar One-Person Business, Chris Guillebeau's Side Hustle and The $100 Startup
Joshua Kennon's essay on synthetic equity https://web.archive.org/web/20150109034520/https://www.joshuakennon.com/creating-and-using-synthetic-equity-to-make-money/
Calvin Hawkes' Soul Ceramics
Combat
David Kilcullen's The Snakes and the Dragons: How the Rest Learned to Fight the West
Grappling
Helio Gracie
Athletics
Pine City's basketball team https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-basketball-team-that-never-takes-a-bad-shot-1485788165
Pulaski Academy's football team https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/sports/wp/2015/08/13/the-highly-successful-high-school-coach-who-never-punts-has-another-radical-idea/
Money Ball
FiveThirtyEight's 3-Pointer study https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/nearly-every-team-is-playing-like-the-rockets-and-thats-hurting-the-rockets/
LeBron James https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/23384071/lebron-james-plays-rests-keep-cleveland-cavaliers-hopes-alive
Support Links
Rate and review the podcast at https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/strategy-chain/id1492935567 Find Amazon affiliate links at http://strategychainpodcast.com/support Send me questions at http://strategychainpodcast.com/contact Sign up for the email list at http://strategychainpodcast.com/ Social Media @strategychain (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Medium)