
Our introduction... let's discover what Strategy is and what it's for.
An elegant strategy helps us create the change we seek to make working with the systems around us.
You don’t have to enjoy the game for it to be a game.
You’re playing a game whether you realize it or not.
The outcome of a game often has little to do with how much you want to win.
Everyone playing the game has a different perspective than you do.
Some games are easy to quit, other games are forever.
Not all players follow the same rules, even when playing the same game.
No game stays the same for long, because playing the game changes the game.
Short-term gains can lead to long-term losses, and vice versa.
Sometimes, the best way to win is to help others succeed.
Large games are made of smaller games, all the way down.
Most games are not fair.
The most valuable skills in one game may be useless in another.
If you see the game, you’ll probably play it better.
Your goals might not be the same as everyone else’s.
Some games become easier as you win, others more difficult.
Changing the game is often more straightforward than playing the game you’re offered.
Multiplayer games sometimes conceal themselves as two-player games.
We mistakenly spend more time figuring out how to win the game we’re in instead of choosing which game to play in the first place.
Discover strategic slogans for future opportunities, audience selection, deliberate projects, and building assets and networks to gain traction.
Choose your customers to define your future, then select your competition, seek validation, and align distribution to serve those customers and shape the system you engage.
Explore how systems orbit culture and resilience through unseen gravitational forces. See that leaders can't command all outcomes; culture enforces itself and outputs are byproducts.
The third dancer's brave act shifts social acceptance, unlocking broader participation and triggering cultural change. The lecture uses festival and penguin metaphors to show how culture drives strategic change.
We prize the status quo because stable environments support long-term fit, while sunk costs, power, affiliation, and interoperability resist change and keep routines intact.
Embrace constraints as boundaries to define projects and celebrate what cannot be adjusted. Use those rules to create impact while maximizing opportunities within time, budget, and technology limits.
Identify how a system under stress reveals its flaws as digital formats disrupt traditional publishing, eroding scarcity and reshaping gatekeeping and shelf space.
An agent of change appears and shifts a system, causing it to evolve or break. It covers communications, competition, community action and regulation, constraints, and cultural shifts.
Explore chessboxing as a negotiation metaphor, emphasizing pre-negotiation, mutual commitment to game rules, and arbitration strategies like one-page memos and escrow accounts.
Explain how ideas spread by delighting early adopters, using Tesla's Model S lineup and the Cybertruck launch to cross the chasm through status, utility, and attention.
Create projects that interact with others, have a clear beginning and end, and ship a visible result within constraints, while making decisions under uncertainty about outcomes.
Own assets that grow in value over time to transform your work, from attention and reputation to scalable tools like machines or cloud AI.
Explore how strategy unfolds over time by building culture, assets, and systems, using the Bene Gesserit and Fremen to illustrate long-term affiliation over status and scarcity-driven abundance.
Bestselling author Seth Godin is back with a breakthrough course on strategy. Marketing isn't advertising or hype or hustle, and it begins with an understanding of the systems we seek to work with. Strategy is the ability to see how things change over time, to engage with tension, to offer audiences what they seek by bringing empathy to the work. Strategy is serious, but it uses what we know about games and scarcity and time. Learning how to talk about strategy is the first step in finding a path to make a difference.
In this workshop, you'll discover a new way to engage with the market and most of all, you'll find that the way forward doesn't have to be an endless grind. Through a series of thought-provoking lessons, real-world examples, and practical exercises, Godin will guide you in developing a strategic mindset that embraces change and leverages the power of systems thinking. You'll learn how to identify opportunities, create value for your audience, and develop resilient strategies that adapt to the ever-changing landscape. Whether you're an entrepreneur, marketer, or simply someone looking to make a positive impact, this course will equip you with the tools and insights needed to navigate complexity and create meaningful change. Join Seth Godin on this transformative journey and unlock your potential to make a difference in the world.