business
29 curated learning paths about business. Each path delivers daily 5-minute drops to build real knowledge over time.
📈Learn the Pareto Principle (80/20 Rule)
Turn the vague '80/20 rule' into a repeatable audit you actually run — log your real week, spot the 20% that drives your results, and finish with a monthly review cadence that keeps you honest.
🤝Learn the Harvard Negotiation Method: Principled Negotiation
Run your next real negotiation with the four Harvard principles in your pocket — separating people from the problem, trading on interests, inventing options, and anchoring on fair criteria instead of stubborn positions.
🧩Learn the Business Model Canvas: Mapping How Value Flows
Map how value flows through any company using Osterwalder's nine interlocking blocks, then pressure-test your own business model and name the block most likely to break.
⚓Learn Anchoring in Negotiation: Who Names the Number First
Settle the 'never go first vs. always anchor' debate using Kahneman and Galinsky's research, then walk into a real deal with a written, defensible opening number — and a plan for the counter.
🎯Learn MEDDIC: Qualifying Enterprise Deals Without Guessing
Walk into your next pipeline review with a six-letter scorecard for every open deal — Metrics, Economic Buyer, Decision Criteria, Decision Process, Identify Pain, Champion — so you stop guessing which deals will actually close.
🎯Learn the Value Proposition Canvas: Fit Before Features
Treat the Value Proposition Canvas as evidence, not aspiration — interview a real customer, then defend every gain creator and pain reliever you wrote.
💰Learn Cash Flow Basics: Why Profitable Businesses Go Bust
Watch a profitable company run out of cash, then learn why. Leave with a 13-week cash forecast for a real business and the instinct to spot a crunch six weeks before it happens.
☕Learn Operations Management Basics: Throughput, Bottlenecks, Flow
Diagnose what's actually slowing your work down — and fix it. You'll use a running coffee shop example to learn throughput, bottlenecks, and Little's Law, then apply the same diagnostic to one workflow you own.
📈Learn Retention Cohort Analysis: Reading the Curve That Matters
Read any cohort retention curve at a glance — decaying, flat, or smiling — and know exactly what to do about it. Leave with a diagnosis of your own product's retention, not a textbook example.
💼Learn the Challenger Sale: Teach, Tailor, Take Control
Distill the Challenger Sale book into the actual teach-tailor-take-control pattern, draft a Commercial Insight that reframes your prospect's problem, and deliver it live in a real meeting Monday morning.
💼Learn Value Chain Analysis: Where Your Margin Actually Comes From
Trace Porter's nine value-chain activities through a coffee company end-to-end, then run the same lens on your own employer until one specific margin leak becomes obvious.
📈Understand Compound Interest
Turn compound interest from a vague formula into a reliable mental tool — calculate growth over time, apply the Rule of 72 in seconds, and reason clearly about savings, debt, and long-horizon decisions.
📋Learn the Lean Canvas: A One-Page Business Model for Startups
Pressure-test a startup idea on a single page instead of writing a plan nobody reads. Fill each of the nine boxes with evidence, then walk a real customer through it and capture their pushback.
📊Understand Unit Economics: LTV, CAC, Contribution Margin
Build LTV, CAC, contribution margin, and payback period from raw subscription data — then ship a one-page memo you can hand to an investor without flinching.
🎯Learn OKRs: Writing Objectives and Key Results That Actually Work
Draft a quarterly OKR set for your team — one ambitious objective, three measurable key results — by separating inspirational direction from numeric evidence the way Intel and Google actually used them.
💼Learn Porter's Five Forces: Reading Industry Structure
Write a one-page Five Forces memo for your own market — scoring buyers, suppliers, entrants, substitutes, and rivalry the way Porter meant, using worked examples from airlines, SaaS, and coffee.
🤝Learn BATNA: Your Best Alternative in Any Negotiation
Walk into your next negotiation — salary, vendor, or lease — with your walk-away point written down, the other side's estimated, and the deal zone mapped out, so fear stops making the call.
📊Learn Break-Even Analysis: When Does the Business Make Sense?
Classify the costs behind any small business, then calculate the exact unit count that turns losses into profit. Leave with a break-even chart built for your own idea, not a textbook example.
🥤Learn Jobs-to-be-Done: Why Customers 'Hire' Your Product
Learn how to run a real Jobs-to-be-Done interview and walk out with a defensible job statement — not another persona.
🎯Learn SPIN Selling: Situation, Problem, Implication, Need-Payoff
Walk into your next discovery call with a scripted sequence of Situation, Problem, Implication, and Need-Payoff questions — and leave knowing exactly which ones unlocked the prospect's real pain.
📊Learn SWOT Analysis Properly: Beyond the Four Boxes
Turn a lazy four-box SWOT into a rigorous, evidence-backed analysis, then pair strengths with opportunities in a TOWS matrix that produces four concrete strategic actions for any business you know.
🏴☠️Learn the AARRR Pirate Metrics: A Startup Funnel That Scales
Walk through all five AARRR stages — Acquisition, Activation, Retention, Referral, Revenue — with real events mapped to each, then draft a working dashboard for your own product.
📊Learn the Kano Model: Prioritizing Features by Customer Delight
Map your product's features onto Kano's five categories, then run a real survey with five users to surface the delighters your roadmap is missing.
⭐Learn the North Star Metric: One Number That Captures Value
Pressure-test real company north stars against three hard criteria, then define and defend one for your own product. Leave with a metric your team can rally around — not another vanity dashboard.
🌊Learn Blue Ocean Strategy: Making the Competition Irrelevant
Go past the 'make competition irrelevant' slogan and learn the actual Blue Ocean tools — the Strategy Canvas and the ERRC grid — well enough to draft one for your own product.
🧭Learn the Eisenhower Matrix for Prioritization
Turn the Eisenhower Matrix from a whiteboard diagram into a 3-minute morning triage ritual. You'll sort your own tasks into the four boxes every day for two weeks and finish with a personal version that tells you exactly what to delegate.
📝Use AI for Meeting Notes That You'll Actually Read
Stop treating AI meeting notes as a dumping ground nobody reads. Build a per-meeting-type workflow that ends in shared decisions and assigned actions — not another inbox full of ignored summaries.
📊Use AI for Spreadsheet Workflows
Stop pasting your sheet into ChatGPT and hoping. Learn four reusable patterns — formula generation, bulk row processing, cleanup, summary — that keep your spreadsheet as the source of truth and let you ship a workflow that cleans, classifies, and summarizes a 200-row dataset.
🎯Use AI to Build Slides and Decks
Stop asking AI to 'make a deck on X' and getting bullet-point sludge that looks like every other AI deck. Learn the outline-first workflow that drives AI from a thinking argument, not a topic — and ship a 7-slide deck for a real talk you can track time saved on.