Entity Dossier
Company
7-Eleven
Strategic Concepts & Mechanics
Signature MoveGo Home to Your Family — Burnout is Firing OffenseSignature MoveMarket Managers as Micro-Chain OwnersSignature MoveNo Head Office — Only a Service CentreStrategic PatternSloche-Style Brand InsurgencyIdentity & CultureLoyalty Over Obedience From Every EmployeeSignature MoveBudgets Built From the Store Floor UpSignature MoveFounders With Noses in the BooksCornerstone MoveBuy the Target With the Target's Own AssetsCornerstone MoveHibernate and Metabolize After Every KillIdentity & CultureOrphan Hunger as Competitive EngineCornerstone MoveOwl on the Branch — Patient PredationDecision FrameworkFour-Way Unanimous Veto on Big BetsRisk DoctrineNever Let Financiers Renegotiate at the AltarCompetitive AdvantageConcentric-Circle Location ScienceCornerstone MoveGovernment-Guaranteed Loans via Corporate SplittingRisk DoctrineCourage to Retreat Over Reckless AdvanceCompetitive AdvantageAsia's Digital Gravity as Location AdvantageCornerstone MoveSmall Fish Swallows Big Fish at Timing InflectionRisk DoctrineSeventy Percent Victory ThresholdRelationship LeverageTen Generals Who Would Give an ArmSignature MoveTwenty-Five Characters Before Every DecisionSignature MoveMeter-High Research Stacks Before CommitmentCornerstone MoveNine-Filter Gauntlet Before Any BusinessStrategic PatternInfrastructure Toll Booth Over Hit ProductsSignature MoveFifty-Year Life Plan as Operating CalendarOperating PrincipleThree-Hundred-Year Company HorizonDecision FrameworkAspiration Before Vision Before StrategyStrategic PatternNinety Percent Won Before Battle BeginsCapital StrategyBankrupt Audacity in Early FundraisingSignature MoveTen-Person Teams with Daily Profit ClosingSignature MoveInstall Winning Habit Then Compound ItCornerstone MoveInvention as Capital Creation MachineRisk DoctrineLifebuoy Group Strategy Against Single-Point Failure
Primary Evidence
"“I would have been interested in buying 7-Eleven,” Bouchard acknowledges. He even flew to Tokyo to meet with the CEO of the group, in the hopes that he would agree to sell the American portion of his empire, which had more than 20,000 stores around the world. “But the Japanese aren’t sellers,” he discovered. He would have to take them on in a different way, and using patience."
Source:Daring to Succed
"Retail revolution─① Takatoshi Mitsui (Echigoya = precursor of Mitsukoshi), ② Takuya Okada (Aeon Group = former JUSCO), ③ Toshifumi Suzuki (7-Eleven)"
Source:Son's Square Law (translated)