Get smarter about strategy.
I read all the time. Every day. So you don’t have to.
I think about what I read and note really interesting ideas. Ideas about how to survive, how to get ahead in life, how to help others get ahead, and how to be happy. Ideas about strategy.
I am the only one in the world looking at strategy from every angle imaginable. And you can get these ideas, simply by signing up.
I share the juiciest ideas, the deep dives, in an email newsletter delivered directly to your inbox once a month, on or about the 21st day. For paid subscribers only.
I share everything else I find along the way, in snippets that go out about once a week. For everyone, free or paid.
These ideas will one day be published as the book series, “The Complete Handbook to Corporate Strategy”.
Proprietary insights into strategy (data, trends, and connections from tech, international affairs, and other readings).
Real-world learnings from decades of strategy work by myself and other leading practitioners.
The “behind the curtain” magic of strategy consultants worldwide. Available to you now, simply by signing up.
What readers say.
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- Oliver Glenn, entrepreneur, Madrid and San Francisco
“What I learned most from George during strategy projects and coaching: that strategy is more than economics, competition, winning and losing. That strategy is above all about people and how they cope with life. (The Strategy Toolkit is) a strategy newsletter for a new era.”
- Klaus Niederlander, executive, Brussels
“There are not many people I turn to for strategy insights. George is one of them.”
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“The Strategy Toolkit' is a must-read monthly newsletter on strategic thinking. If you have five minutes of time to invest each month, please do so. George Barnett, the newsletter's author, draws upon his years of experience as a strategy consultant and start-up investor in Silicon Valley to help you reframe your strategic thinking, when pondering long-term issues. Unlike others, George doesn't attempt to apply a "one-size-fits-all" strategic framework to an existing problem. Instead, he links lessons from the past to the present, allowing the reader to reach their own "aha" moment in shaping their own strategic thinking.”
- Dickson Louie, faculty, Graduate School of Management, UCDavis
“A welcome, and much needed, contribution to the practice of corporate strategy.”
- Bernie Jaworski, the Peter F. Drucker Chair in Management and Liberal Arts, Claremont Graduate University
About George Barnett.
I am a strategy geek based in Silicon Valley: an engineer, diplomat, consultant, investor, and entrepreneur, with two decades of experience working with companies of all sizes around the world as part of the Monitor Group and the ClearLake Group. Since 2015, I have invested a disproportionate amount of my time working with technology firms growing new businesses based on cloud-based software, artificial intelligence, and quantum computing. I read incessantly, and think constantly about what I read and what it means for strategy. I tweet as @gabthinking and share bite-sized ideas on TikTok as @strategytok.
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