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7 Powers: Durable Advantage

Hamilton Helmer's framework for why some companies keep high returns for decades: each 'Power' needs a benefit and a barrier. Scale economies, network economies, counter-positioning, switching costs, branding, cornered resource and process power, with examples.

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Business strategy with Hamilton Helmer (author of 7 Powers) Lenny's Podcast · 68 min
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Prereqs: Porter's five forces; Moats & capital allocation. Next: Disruption & the innovator's dilemma. Book: Hamilton Helmer, *7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy* (2016).
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