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Issue 16 • August 18, 2025
Building Your Competitive Moat (One Decision at a Time)
Strategic insights on building lasting competitive advantage through intentional leadership, financial intelligence, and permissionless innovation.
Issue 15 • August 11, 2025
🎯 When User Delight Kills Business Value
A contrarian take on UX priorities, plus insights on AI-induced delusions, the end of dial-up internet, and why good ideas aren't actually easy to find.
Issue 14 • August 04, 2025
🧭 Leadership in the Arena - Character, Connection, and Courage
Essential insights on team dynamics, organizational resilience, and the courage to be vulnerable in leadership from Sam Altman, Jensen Huang, and lessons from Apollo 13.
Issue 13 • July 28, 2025
📡 The Human Signal in the AI Noise
Strategic insights on maintaining human creativity, storytelling authenticity, and competitive advantage in an AI-accelerated world
Issue 12 • July 21, 2025
⚡ Building Your AI Advantage (Before Someone Else Does)
Exploring how AI is reshaping competitive advantage across creative industries and business operations—from illustration awards celebrating human artistry to Shopify's systematic approach to AI adoption.
Issue 11 • July 14, 2025
🌊 When Leadership Meets the Hard Stuff
How leaders navigate delivering bad news, why creative strategy requires going on offense, and breakthrough innovations born from constraints—featuring insights from Harvard Business Review, Roger Martin, and real-world case studies.
Issue 10 • July 07, 2025
🧬 Culture, Strategy, and the Antibodies of Success
Culture either delivers or destroys strategy. Explore why cultural antibodies attack unfamiliar ideas plus leadership, systems thinking, and book recommendations in this week’s newsletter.
Issue 9 • June 30, 2025
🔎 Competition, Costs, and Future Bets
Competition, costs, and future bets – explore Part 4 of Kedron Rhodes' strategy series alongside curated insights on AI innovation, product teams, and strategic culture.
Issue 8 • June 23, 2025
⚓️ When Innovation Meets Resistance
Exploring the friction of innovation—why new capabilities challenge old strengths, and how leaders can navigate strategic transformation.
Issue 7 • June 16, 2025
🕵️ Know Thy Customer
Exploring how conflicting customer definitions silently sabotage strategy—and what leaders can do to restore alignment.
Issue 6 • June 09, 2025
⛓️💥 When Strategy Breaks
Most strategies fail — not because they are wrong, but because they ignore five critical realities. This is Part 1 of a 5-part series exploring what really makes strategy succeed or collapse in the real world.
Issue 5 • June 02, 2025
🧋 Big Swings & Innovation Signals
Reflections on McDonald's CosMc's experiment and what it teaches us about innovation, bold bets, and learning through experience — plus curated reads on strategy, design, and business resilience.
Issue 4 • May 26, 2025
🛠️ Rebuilding Trust in the Middle of Change
A thoughtful look at how trust breaks down during organizational change—and practical steps leaders can take to rebuild it.
