#40: Tactics Masquerading as Strategy and The End of Porter's Five Forces

Coburn Ventures Podcast · Mar 4, 2021 · 14m

Today we are examining business strategy, and especially, strategies that are weak, becoming "Tactics Masquerading as Strategy". And then, we tie that to a key philosophical underpinning of many business strategies that we may be adapting away from: Porter's Five Forces. This is a philosophy that fits very well with the last four decades. It would be a largely successful framework to start strategic thinking… but just as we want to be able to identify when a strategy is really just a reduction into tactics, we want to be able to understand the underlying building blocks philosophy a strategy…