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Boston Consulting Group

By Bruce Henderson

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Adjacency-and-Network Expansion Test

Prioritize marketplace expansion by adjacency and network reinforcement, not by the size of the adjacent TAM

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Betterment Over Perfection (The Painful-Gap Method)

Don't craft a perfect strategy — close your single most painful gap, then the next, forever.

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Design Capabilities So Rivals Say 'Life's Too Short'

Build capabilities and systems so nuanced that imitators choose a different battlefield instead of copying you.

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Dual-Sided ROI Equation

Price each acquisition to include the cost of acquiring the other side it needs, then push to your payback threshold

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Homogenize the Early Experience for Retention

Move retention by fixing unlucky bad first experiences, not by nudging people about to churn

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Schedule Syncing (Managing Your Manager)

Never say no to your boss — show your timeboxed calendar and ask them to help you prioritize.

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Self-Mastery3 steps

The 10-Minute Rule (Surfing the Urge)

Beat any urge to get distracted by waiting ten minutes and riding the emotion until it subsides.

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The Effort Metric (Measure Attention, Not Completion)

Track 'did I do what I said for as long as I said without distraction' instead of whether you finished.

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The Four Marketplace Health Metrics

Track GMV, unit economics, liquidity, and share of wallet to know if a marketplace is truly healthy

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Mindset3 steps

The Gardener Mindset for Marketplaces

Run a marketplace like a gardener with a light touch, not a construction worker building linear features

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The Growth Model Building Blocks

Build a spreadsheet formula of how your business grows, layer by layer, to find your real levers

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The Indistractable Model

The four-step system for controlling your attention: master triggers, make time, hack back, and pre-commit.

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The Indistractable Workplace (Three Traits)

Distraction is a symptom of dysfunction — fix it with psychological safety, a forum, and leaders who model it.

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The Marketplace Fragmentation Test

A marketplace only works if the market is fragmented and the per-transaction dollars are small enough to keep it in the middle

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The Strategy Choice Cascade

Five interlocking questions that force a strategy into an integrated, reinforcing whole.

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The Three Pacts (Pre-Commitment Firewall)

Lock in your intentions ahead of time with an effort pact, a price pact, or an identity pact.

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Timeboxing Your Values (Make Time for Traction)

Replace the to-do list with a weekly timeboxed calendar built from your values across three life domains.

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Two Routes to Win: Differentiation or Low Cost

You must be the differentiated choice or the lowest-cost provider — anything in between gets bullied.

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Vertical Unbundling Criteria

Only carve a vertical out of a horizontal marketplace if it has high value or frequency and a self-contained network

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