7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy

“there's this book called seven powers by hamilton himler if you haven't read it it's a really worthwhile distillation of what it takes to build a competitively lasting business ” ▶ tap to hear this moment · 13s

“hamilton hamler wrote wrote this book called the seven powers and everyone took a valley talks about moats ” ▶ tap to hear this moment · 6s

“one of my favorite books is ” ▶ tap to hear this moment · 2s

“which is adapted from hamilton helmer's seven powers book which is an amazing framework for business strategy ” ▶ tap to hear this moment · 6s

“there's a book called seven powers by hamilton helmer ” ▶ tap to hear this moment · 3s

“and for new listeners to the show this is based on a book called seven powers by hamilton helmer ” ▶ tap to hear this moment · 4s

“the question is what is it about any given business that allows them to achieve persistent differential returns or to be more profitable than their closest competitor on a sustainable basis and there's seven of these there's counter positioning scale economies switching costs network economies process power branding and cornered resource and as usual we have to separate the takeoff phase from the phase that they're in today ” ▶ tap to hear this moment · 25s

“that reminds me of counter positioning from hamilton hamilton helmer's seven powers book ” ▶ tap to hear this moment · 5s

“have you read that book seven powers ” ▶ tap to hear this moment · 2s

“there's also the book obviously the seven powers that a lot of people are aware of ” ▶ tap to hear this moment · 3s

“this is adapted from a framework that hamilton helmer created in his book seven powers ” ▶ tap to hear this moment · 5s

“i'm number one on seven powers right ” ▶ tap to hear this moment · 2s

“like hey there's this book in this guy hamilton elmer best kept secret in silicon valley this is a fantastic book and so i listened to that i picked up the book i was like ben you gotta read this book ” ▶ tap to hear this moment · 11s

“in the words of the hamilton helmer from her great lp episode in his book seven powers ” ▶ tap to hear this moment · 5s

“you can't just go out and read seven powers and say i'm gonna do this one and this is gonna be in my business ” ▶ tap to hear this moment · 4s