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Relentless Improvement: Why Dick’s Sporting Goods Keeps Winning
“Do right for the company. Do right for society. You can’t prosper unless the community around you prospers.” — Ed Stack At the start of the 2000s, British Cycling barely mattered. Then British Cycling hired Dave Brailsford. In more than a century, Britain had produced no Tour de France winners and just one Olympic gold medal.…
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June Reading List: The 2 Best Books I Read in June 2026
“Champions behave like champions before they’re champions; they have a winning standard of performance before they are winners.” — Bill Walsh Bill Walsh took over a miserable San Francisco 49ers team in the late 1970s. He immediately focused on small details like how the staff answered the phone, dressed, and carried themselves instead of obsessing over…
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How Great Entrepreneurs Focus on What Matters: Peter Thiel’s Best Business Strategy from Zero to One
Ample Hills Creamery began as a husband-and-wife ice cream shop in Brooklyn, serving some of the city’s best ice cream. It quickly attracted famous fans, including Bob Iger and Oprah Winfrey. Success brought opportunity. The founders chased nearly every opportunity that came their way. They stopped focusing on the thing that made the business special.…
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Competition Destroys Profits: Peter Thiel’s Most Controversial Idea from Zero to One
Larry Page and Sergey Brin wanted to make internet search dramatically better. They built a search engine that was clean, fast, and almost unnervingly good at finding information. It quickly left its rivals behind. Their new company, Google, became something very close to a monopoly. AdWords turned it into one of the greatest money-printing machines…
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Entrepreneur Mindset: 3 Lessons from Zero to One
Peter Thiel’s venture fund is looking for the next big winner. It’s the early 2000s. His team comes across a little-known startup called Facebook. Instead of spreading their money around, they make a highly concentrated bet. That single investment returns thousands of times its original cost. The Facebook investment ultimately generated more profit than every…
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