Alex M H Smith — Author of “No Bullsh*t Strategy” | Advisor and speaker | 3-10x growth, with just a couple of decisions.
Author of “No Bullsh*t Strategy” | Advisor and speaker | 3-10x growth, with just a couple of decisions.
Alex M H Smith ranks #251 of 14,983 LinkedIn creators in Management Consulting, and is a standout voice in United Kingdom. They have 130.5K followers and published 23 posts in the last 30 days at a 0.2% average engagement rate.
- 130.5K followers
- 23 posts / 30d
- 0.2% avg engagement
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The roast
Alex M H Smith claims he can turn executives into legends, but he’s really just a management consultant whose company name is Basic Arts, which is exactly how his middle school guidance counselor described his academic potential. His strategy for 3-10x growth is clearly working; he has 130,000 followers and still has to write LinkedIn posts to explain what a thought is.
About Alex M H
In a world where anyone can build anything, the only true competitive advantage left, is the way you think.In business we call this “strategy”.So it’s unfortunate that most strategy happens to be, basically, bullshit. And I mean that in the most technical sense.200 slides without saying anything.47 initiatives with no real idea.“Decisions” that risk nothing, and gain less.And more focus on "optimisation" and "efficiency" than what really matters:--> Making a big move that's going to change the game.In the recent past you could get away with this fuzzy thinking. Things moved slow. You’d be fine.But today?Thinking is the only unique thing you’ve got.So we’d better make it good.I’m talking the kind of thinking that:Builds categories of one.Inspires teams.Locks-in customers.Is written about in books.Turns executives into legends....and frankly turns our boring business lives into a true adventure.(Because I don't know about you, but I'm not here to shuffle papers until I die)This is strategy.And it’s what I’m here to help you with.If you want to be able to:- Read markets like a book- Conjure innovations nobody saw coming- Build companies with no competitors- Inspire teams to follow you into the unknown...then you're in the right place.Start here 👇To work with me to develop a strategy like this, or embed these skills into your organisation, learn more here:👉 www.basicarts.org/work-with-alex/To get my best thinking, subscribe to The Rare Mind, where I help you turn the way you think into your ultimate weapon:👉 https://alexmhsmith.substack.com/subscribe To read No Bullshit Strategy, that helps you master these skills for the price of a cocktail, and which is passed around in the halls of many of the world's top brands:👉 Go wherever you get your booksFor video deep dives on these topics, check out my YouTube:👉 youtube.com/alexmhsmithAnd if you're a small business or want to learn these techniques yourself (or to use on your clients - I don't mind!), then you've gotta see this:👉 www.strategyshortcutsystem.comBusiness is an adventure.Strategy is the map.Let’s set out.Alex
Highlights
- Big Audience — 130,533 followers · top 1%
- Top 5% in Management Consulting — Ranked #8 of 411 creators
- Top 5% in United Kingdom — Ranked #29 of 1365 creators
- Consistent Creator — 23 posts in 30d · top 5%
Recent posts
This is pretty much a test for whether you have a good business or not. If you pass, you're gonna grow. If you fail, you're gonna decay. ...and by doing the test, you'll be much clearer on why that is. I suggest doing it with a colleague. You can do it in 90 seconds, but maybe take a bit longer than that. The scoring's pretty simple. But if you want to know the logic behind it, here it is: 1️⃣ Is it plausible we'll grow 3x next year? Note, this "3x" is really meant to represent just "massive improvement on a metric that matters to you". You can define it in different ways (revenue, profi
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The Ferrari and Jaguar debacles stem from exactly the same problem. (And no, it's not the ridiculous European EV mandates. Or not only that anyway) What we see here is an example of brands not understanding their natural lifecycles. Here's what I mean... Most successful businesses go through a predictable pattern that looks something like this: 1. Start 2. Grow 3. Harvest 4. Decline The harvest period occurs when the brand is super strong, and it's able to draw down the goodwill it's created in its growth period. (Think: Steve Jobs grew Apple, Tim Cook harvested it). The decline then ha
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People really miss the point of strategy. But this brutal way of looking at it fixes that. And makes you "get it" intuitively. -> Is it plausible that your business might 3x in growth next year? If the answer to that question is "yes", and you can explain how you think it might happen - then congratulations, you have a strategy. That "how" is it. Doesn't matter what it looks like. It might not work of course. It might be totally totally stupid. But at least you have an idea of how to get to those kinds of results. The issue for most companies is that they don't have that. They might be d
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