Follow the legend - seven strategy lessons from top entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs seem to win against the odds. Whether the story is about Bill Gates, Richard Branson or any other legendary entrepreneur, that story usually ends with the word “success”. But how do the best entrepreneurs manage to succeed so often and so convincingly? We’ve found that the entrepreneurial mind employs the following seven principles of strategic decision-making:

• Exploiting confirmatory bias
• Letting a thousand flowers bloom
• Expanding through beachhead acquisitions
• Selective stealing
• Changing the rules of the game
• Using paranoia, and
• Avoiding head-on competition

These strategy lessons are as valuable to managers in established companies as they are to entrepreneurs; the key is to understand the power of each strategic weapon.

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