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How do you turn your Information Monster into a Story Rainbow?
Sep 29, 2025 • Mark Pollard, Strategy Friend

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How To Explain An Idea: A Mega Post
What's an idea? What sorts of ideas are there? And how do you explain them once you have them?
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The Honesty Struggle In Strategy
Either way, you'll pay a price
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The Fantasy of Working With Small Businesses
Strategy with consequence
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To Talk About Strategy Is To Talk About People
Theory helps but it isn't the point
Mar 25 • Mark Pollard, Strategy Friend
What If You Are the Pattern?
Insight is not intervention
Mar 10 • Mark Pollard, Strategy Friend
Are Outsider Observations Worth Anything?
Plus observations from Africa
Mar 4 • Mark Pollard, Strategy Friend
Being a Strategist Without a Brief
How the strategist's mind works outside of work
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Product Strategy - A Look Behind The Scenes Of What This Education Company Is Building
How we're tackling 2026
Jan 14 • Mark Pollard, Strategy Friend
Attract What You Want - Clients Included
You're asking the wrong questions.
Jan 6 • Mark Pollard, Strategy Friend
Sweathead, A Strategy Newsletter
Sweathead, A Strategy Newsletter
A weekly newsletter for strategy lovers and hobbyists written by Sweathead's Mark Pollard. We touch on advertising, marketing, and brand, but we also delve into the mind and life of the strategist.
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