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    Red and Yellow Strategies: Flip Your Strategic Thinking and Overcome Short-termism
    Red and Yellow Strategies: Flip Your Strategic Thinking and Overcome Short-termism
    Red and Yellow Strategies: Flip Your Strategic Thinking and Overcome Short-termism
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    Red and Yellow Strategies: Flip Your Strategic Thinking and Overcome Short-termism

    By Svyatoslav Biryulin

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    Knowledge drives growth. Thinking sparks breakthroughs. 


    Do you dream of building a thriving business?


    Those who follow the rules build successful companies. 


    Those who think differently build great ones. 


    Start seeing the world of business from a new angle with this book written by someone who spent years building companies rather than working in academia.


    Learn from the book: 


    – What the purpose of the flourishing company might look like


    – How to set long-term strategic goals


    – How to think long-term in a short-term world


    – How to measure business success effectively


    – How to keep thinking strategically when overwhelmed by short-term tasks


    This isn't a strategy textbook or a step-by-step guide. It's a collection of groundbreaking insights from a person with 30 years of experience, aimed at sharpening your strategic thinking.


    Svyatoslav Biryulin has spent his entire career in management. He served as a CEO for over 12 years. He has served as a board member for more than 10 years and as an independent strategy consultant for over 8 years. His experience is reflected in this book.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPublishdrive
    Release dateJun 17, 2024
    ISBN9789610721772
    Red and Yellow Strategies: Flip Your Strategic Thinking and Overcome Short-termism

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      Red and Yellow Strategies - Svyatoslav Biryulin

      Red and Yellow Strategy: Flip Your Strategic Thinking and Overcome Short-termism

      Svyatoslav Biryulin

      Copyright 2024 Svyatoslav Biryulin

      All rights reserved

      Self-published.

      Digital edition.

      No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior permission of Svyatoslav Biryulin.

      Ljubljana, Slovenia

      Kataložni zapis o publikaciji (CIP) pripravili v Narodni in univerzitetni knjižnici v Ljubljani

      COBISS.SI-ID 199100419

      ISBN 978-961-07-2177-2 (ePUB)

      2024

      Table of Contents

      Chapter 1. Strategic Thinker – A Many-Eyed Giant Argus or an Oracle?

      Strategic thinking biases

      Strategic Thinker – a prophet, an oracle, a warlock, or a wizard? Or all of the above?

      Contemplation Questions

      Chapter 2. Life is a marketplace of values

      Marketplace of values

      Group exchange – organizations

      Why are some companies more successful than others?

      Contemplation Questions

      Chapter 3. Value Ecosystems and Value Waves

      Value Ecosystems

      Value Ecosystem Management

      Value Waves

      Quibi and Value Ecosystems

      Contemplation Questions

      Chapter 4. What Is Business?

      Strategic mindset

      Three coaches

      Building a business that will outlive its founders

      Contemplation Questions

      Chapter 5. Fallacies in Strategic Goal Setting

      Flaw #1

      Flaw #2

      Flaw #3

      Flaw #4

      Contemplation Questions

      Chapter 6. The dark side of strategic goals

      Dark sides of big goals

      Do we need goals?

      Contemplation questions

      Chapter 7. Strategy and Trees

      Business as relationships

      Strategy and trees

      Strategy as creating conditions

      Contemplation Questions

      Chapter 8. What is strategy?

      Strategy as a mission

      What does strategy mean?

      Strategy and goals

      Strategy as constitution

      The definition of strategy

      Beware of the person who sells you a book with only one page.

      Contemplating Questions:

      Chapter 9. Red and Yellow strategies

      Bricks and computer programs

      Strategy as a half-baked plan

      Red strategy

      Yellow strategy – strong strategy loosely held

      Yellow Bricks and Yellow Strategy: Inevitably Choosing the Yellow Strategy

      Strategy as continuous hypotheses testing

      Red and yellow strategies

      Contemplation questions:

      Chapter 10. What is NOT a strategy?

      Overlooked ideas

      Strategy and design thinking

      Strategy Isn't a Google Maps Route

      Customer-free strategy

      What is NOT a strategy

      Contemplation questions

      Chapter 11. Blue Ocean Fallacy

      Where to play

      Circus and business strategy

      The market is not an ocean

      First – there are no ‘red oceans’

      Second – ‘blue oceans’ are here

      Contemplation questions

      Chapter 12. Sixteen Basic Human Needs And Business Strategy

      Why do you want what you want? Human needs

      Sixteen basic needs

      Customer needs and customer value

      Picturephone (1964) vs Skype (2003)

      Value Ecosystem

      Conclusion

      Chapter 13. Key takeaways

      Ecosystems

      Stakeholders and Value Waves

      Purpose, goals, and success

      Central principles

      Red and yellow strategies

      Market, customer needs, and customer value

      Stakeholder value

      Chapter 14. Appendix 1

      Chapter 15. Appendix 2

      Red strategy: 25 questions

      Yellow strategy: Crucial questions

      Chapter 1. Strategic Thinker – A Many-Eyed Giant Argus or an Oracle?

      Thinking about thinking is the most important kind of thinking.

      Category Pirates

      In 2011, Wells Fargo bank earned $2.6 million in fees thanks to its new strategy, Eight Is Great. In 2016, it paid $185 million in fines for how it did it. 

      In 2011, most customers used only one or two bank products. The top executives firmly decided to increase this number to eight.

      But workers struggled to meet demanding quotas. They began to cut corners, opened 1.5 million unauthorized deposit accounts, and made 500,000 unauthorized credit card applications for Wells customers – without their knowledge.

      In 2016, the regulator punished the bank for what, initially, was a good intention. 

      …

      In September 2005, eBay triumphantly announced buying Skype for $2.6 billion. It had hoped the VoIP service would help users communicate better. But four years later, eBay sold Skype for $1.9 billion.

      For most eBay users, email was enough. 

      …

      In early 2023, US automotive industry executives beamed with enthusiasm about the future of EVs. They had invested billions in new production facilities.

      But the market received a cold shower when the market growth sharply slowed down in the second half of 2023.

      Ford has pulled back on EV investment and could delay some vehicle launches while increasing production of hybrids…It lost a staggering $4.7 billion last year on its battery-powered car business, The Wall Street Journal reported.

      Mary Barra, the CEO of General Motors, said the company wouldn’t meet a self-imposed goal of producing 400,000 EVs over a two-year period through mid-2024. 

      …

      When we think of the future, it seems so linear and logical, but reality usually turns out to be rather messy and complicated.

      These three cases are very different. Yet, they have a lot in common. I blame strategic thinking biases for these mistakes – and many others.

      Strategic thinking biases

      Our thinking device – the brain – evolved about 500,000 years ago. 

      It developed (and still develops) at a snail’s pace. In the past 100,000 years, its size has only increased by 10%. 

      Homo sapiens originated in Africa roughly 300,000 years ago. And the brains of these ancient humans were ideally suited to their lifestyle.

      They lived in small groups of about 150 people.

      They weren’t keeping track of the stock prices.

      They didn’t worry about product-market fit. 

      They didn’t run organizations so large that their leaders might never meet most of the employees face to face. 

      Their life wasn’t easy, but their strategic tasks were pretty simple – securing enough food for their families, raising children, and surviving. 

      But look at the CEOs of modern businesses. 

      They must think multi-dimensionally. 

      They have to balance the conflicting interests of various groups of people.

      They need to foster team creativity and enforce rigorous execution discipline.

      They should lay the foundation for long-term success and ensure day-to-day outcomes. 

      They are like race car drivers who must simultaneously win today’s race and upgrade their cars for future ones. To make it worse, they do not know what these future races will be like. 

      At the same time, they still rely on pretty much the same computing devices in their heads as their distant mammoth-hunting ancestors. It’s like building AI on an old Windows XP computer.

      Our brains are like ancient computers running on outdated software. We stick to patterns instead of thinking things through and let emotions run the show. Our short-term memory capacity is limited to three to five items. 

      We are physically incapable of keeping all business tasks in our heads. Like carnival jugglers, CEOs must keep multiple objects in the air at once. And these objects vary in size and weight.

      No wonder their strategic thinking is biased. A few years ago, when I was a CEO myself, I suffered from the same problems. 

      Here are some examples: 

      With this book, I will try to help you focus on primary business principles, which will sharpen your strategic thinking. 

      I don’t claim to have a magic solution to all problems. Nor do I claim to have a magic wand to

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