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. […]
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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Dietrich Mateschitz decided to take Red Bull global in the 1980s. Market researchers and consultants told him it would fail. Testers said the drink tasted terrible, and advisors warned he couldn’t compete with Coca-Cola. Early losses seemed to prove them right. What they missed was the Dietrich Mateschitz philosophy: keep moving. For a goal-obsessed entrepreneur,
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In the middle of trying to land a rocket that no one had ever landed before, SpaceX stumbled into the problem that became its greatest competitive advantage. The kind of problem that makes sensible companies quietly change the subject. SpaceX leaned in. Instead of asking whether a reusable rocket was practical, Elon Musk asked why
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Complacency kills companies. It’s why legendary coach Nick Saban preached against it for decades. Nvidia’s Jensen Huang felt the same way. He knew avoiding complacency would keep Nvidia alive. One way Jensen fought complacency was by building resilience. He believed resilience mattered more than intelligence. Another driver of success, in Jensen’s view, is using pain
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“Jobs are owned by the company, you own your career!” by Earl Nightingale Career Ownership Andy Grove—Intel’s third employee and eventual CEO—believed in total career ownership. Grove wasn’t just a brilliant leader and innovator—he was also a prolific writer. In Only the Paranoid Survive, he distilled decades of experience into timeless lessons on business and personal
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