A veteran operations executive with 15+ years leading strategy and operations at a billion-dollar business. Every article applies the thinking of Rumelt, Goldratt, Deming, Meadows, Sinek, Clear, and the Farnam Street
Operations
If you run operations at a mid-market company, these three books will give you more leverage than any ERP implementation or dashboard project. They teach you how to see your system, find the constraint, and stop optimizing the wrong things. 1. The Goal by Eliyahu Goldratt The most important operations
Strategy
These are the three strategy books that will change how you make decisions at work. Not theory for MBAs. Frameworks you can apply to your next planning cycle, your next pricing review, your next resource allocation fight. 1. Good Strategy Bad Strategy by Richard Rumelt Rumelt's core argument:
Strategy
Most strategy advice is either too academic to use or too shallow to matter. Clearheaded Operations sits in the gap: short-form articles that apply two of the best strategic frameworks ever written to the operational problems you're actually facing at work. If you're running a mid-market