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Business first principles are business guidelines and concepts that have broad explanatory power. These can be used to develop strategy, make decisions and solve problems in areas such as business models, promotion, pricing, product design and management. The following is a list of common business first principles followed by a guide to each.
Animal Spirits
Arrow Of Time
Attractiveness Principle
BATNA
Ban The Average
Barriers To Entry
Barriers To Exit
Be Careful What You Measure
Business As Usual
Circular Economy
Club Theory
Command And Control
Crash Of Ineptitude
Creativity Of Constraints
Critical Mass
Customer Is Always Right
Cut And Run
Default Dead
Design For Scale
Design To Cost
Design To The Edges
Design To Value
Design Unity
Desire Path
Diminishing Marginal Utility
Diminishing Returns
Distinctive Capability
Division Of Labor
Do Nothing Strategy
Door In The Face
Early Adopters
Economic Moat
Economies Of Density
Economies Of Scale
Economies Of Scope
Esprit De Corps
Ethos, Pathos & Logos
Everyone Has A Plan Until They Get Punched In The Face
Fail Often
Fail Well
Fake It Till You Make It
Falling Knife
Fear Of Missing Out
Figure Of Merit
First-Mover Advantage
Fit For Purpose
Five Whys
Foot In The Door
Forward Compatibility
Interchangeable Parts
Jumping The Shark
Kairos
Kaizen
Keep It Simple Stupid
Keep It Small
Last Responsible Moment
Law Of Demand
Law Of Holes
Law Of Large Numbers
Law Of The Hammer
Long Tail
Marketing Myopia
Minimum Viable Product
More Is Different
Mr Market
Network Effect
Nudge Theory
Opportunity Costs
Outrun The Bear
Pain Points
Paradigm Shift
Pareto Principle
Peak-End Rule
Perfect Information
Preserving Ambiguity
Principle Of Least Astonishment
Principle Of Least Effort
Pyrrhic Victory
Race To The Bottom
Rational Choice Theory
Rule Of Three
Separation Of Concerns
Six Degrees Of Separation
Specialization Of Labor
Steel Thread
Sticky Information
Structure Follows Strategy
Sure Thing Principle
Theory Of Constraints
There's More Than One Way To Do It
Think Global Act Local
Time Value Of Money
Trained Incapacity
Trough Of Sorrow
Underpants Gnomes
Unintended Consequences
Value Chain
Virtuous Cycle
Window Of Opportunity
Worse Is Better

Business First Principles

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Animal Spirits
Arrow Of Time
Attractiveness Principle
Ban The Average
Barriers To Entry
Barriers To Exit
BATNA
Business As Usual
Circular Economy
Club Theory
Command And Control
Crash Of Ineptitude
Creativity Of Constraints
Critical Mass
Customer Is Always Right
Cut And Run
Default Dead
Design For Scale
Design To Cost
Design To The Edges
Design To Value
Design Unity
Desire Path
Diminishing Marginal Utility
Diminishing Returns
Distinctive Capability
Division Of Labor
Do Nothing Strategy
Door In The Face
Early Adopters
Economic Moat
Economies Of Density
Economies Of Scale
Economies Of Scope
Esprit De Corps
Ethos, Pathos & Logos
Everyone Has A Plan ...
Fail Often
Fail Well
Fake It Till You ...
Falling Knife
Fear Of Missing Out
Figure Of Merit
First-Mover Advantage
Fit For Purpose
Five Whys
Foot In The Door
Forward Compatibility
Interchangeable Parts
Jumping The Shark
Kairos
Kaizen
Keep It Simple Stupid
Keep It Small
Last Responsible Moment
Law Of Demand
Law Of Holes
Law Of Large Numbers
Law Of The Hammer
Long Tail
Marketing Myopia
Be Careful What You Measure
Minimum Viable Product
More Is Different
Mr Market
Network Effect
Nudge Theory
Opportunity Costs
Outrun The Bear
Pain Points
Paradigm Shift
Pareto Principle
Peak-End Rule
Perfect Information
Preserving Ambiguity
Principle Of Least Astonishment
Principle Of Least Effort
Pyrrhic Victory
Race To The Bottom
Rational Choice Theory
Rule Of Three
Separation Of Concerns
Six Degrees Of Separation
Specialization Of Labor
Steel Thread
Sticky Information
Structure Follows Strategy
Sure Thing Principle
Theory Of Constraints
There's More Than One ...
Think Global Act Local
Trained Incapacity
Trough Of Sorrow
Underpants Gnomes
Unintended Consequences
Value Chain
Virtuous Cycle
Window Of Opportunity
Worse Is Better
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