Helmer defines Power as the potential for persistent differential returns.

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  their stock price today. It wasn't for lack of competition either. The competitive assault in microprocessors has, over the decades, been at least as intense as that in memories. IBM, Motorola, AMD, Zilog, National Semiconductor, ARM, NEC, TI, and countless others have poured billions into this business. We can only assume microprocessors possessed some sort of rare characteristics which materially improved cash flow, while simultaneously inhibiting competitive arbitrage. I refer to these as power. potential for persistent differential returns. Power is the core concept of strategy and of this book too. It is the holy grail of business, notoriously difficult to reach, but well worth your attention and study. And so it is the task of this book, to detail the specific conditions that result in power, part one statics, and how to attain them, part two dynamics. The mantra. For Intel, microprocessors had power, and memories did not. And this made all the difference. Intel's enduring triple-digit billion market cap, reflects this power applied across a large revenue stream. Such an outcome is the goal of any business, and this allows me to define strategy, a company's strategy, in the following way. Strategy, a route to continuing power in

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  Strategy, a route to continuing power in significant markets. The product of M sub 0 and G reflect market scale over time. Hence, they capture the significant markets component of this definition. The impact of competitive arbitrage is expressed in margins and market share simultaneously. So the maintenance or increase of S market share, while maintaining a positive and material long-term differential margin, provides the numerical expression of power. In other words, put another way, potential value equals market scale times power. This is potential value, and operational excellence is required to achieve that potential. Examining Intel through this lens, we can identify a large-scale market, M sub zero times G, for both memories and microprocessors. So what accounted for the utterly different value outcome? Under Andy Grove, operational excellence was the norm. So it was power that made the difference. Over time, competitive arbitrage drove bar m in memories negative, whereas power enabled Intel to maintain a high and positive bar m in microprocessors. upcoming topics. This simple math confirms my strategy definition as an exhaustive statement

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