1/ I recently finished digging into a body of work around extracted tacit mental models of business expertise, and it is wild. It turns out that business experts all share a common mental model of business, and you can do all sorts of interesting things if you have that model.

@joodalooped

Of course the line is exceedingly thin, and in the hands of a sufficiently smart, sufficiently skilled writer, speculation can be dressed up as analysis. Challenge of our times.

RT @yashbagal: "pretty much nobody graduates from university and thinks to themselves: Ahh, I want to be the next Dhirubhai Ambani." amazi��

@matsonj @uberstuber good

RT @nurijanian: 5/ The best part for busy PMs: If the number's inside the lines, then you can ignore the noise. If your boss panics, then…

Ok part two is out:

@dillchen No to both. For the reasons you've guessed at. Both are doable, but it'll take longer + more resources to do them well. Mostly because there's a lack of good primary journalism there.

@dillchen Don't get me wrong: Studwell is one of the best sources we have, but his focus is on developmental economics. Not the art of business. Plus much of his writing is polluted with this smug, morally superior tone. It's frankly rather irritating.

@anushkmittal If you can give me a non-hagiographic account of their business histories, sure. Preferably something on the order of The Polyester Prince, which was banned from India.

@collectualize Oh yes, but the bigger issue is provenance. Most biographies are hagiographies. Difficult to pick through.