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The house servant who pioneered the franchising business model
In the future, those who achieve the greatest results with the least number of employees will be admired above all others
Auren Hoffman • The New Status Game for Companies: Fewer Employees
Multiplication is Duplication for an entire process or System. McDonald’s began as a single restaurant in California; Starbucks began as a single coffee shop in Seattle. By learning to Duplicate the entire business system that is a McDonald’s or Starbucks store, each company opened new possibilities for growth.
Josh Kaufman • The Personal MBA: A World-Class Business Education in a Single Volume
If Sara Blakely hadn’t cut the feet off a pair of pantyhose, she wouldn’t have built Spanx into a billion-dollar empire. If Brandon Stanton hadn’t picked up a camera after getting fired from his finance job, Humans of New York wouldn’t touch millions of lives every day. If I hadn’t started sending a tiny email newsletter in 2017, you wouldn’t be re
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By the time he was twenty-eight, Alan had parlayed a night gig intended to pay for college into a small-town business empire.
Todd Rose • Dark Horse: Achieving Success Through the Pursuit of Fulfillment
His singleminded approach was so successful that he was able to buy into the Harkness family business within a few years, and shortly afterward made the acquaintance of one of his Cleveland counterparts in the grain-brokerage chain, one John D. Rockefeller.
Les Standiford • Last Train to Paradise: Henry Flagler and the Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Railroad that Crossed an Ocean
None of the Morgans, or Loebs, or Belmonts, or Barings, who shoveled billions of dollars into American railroads, and telegraphs, and steel mills, and iron and coal mines, thought about selling wrapped and scented ladies’ soap. But that, it emerged, was what all that infrastructure was for. P&G used tree resin instead of animal tallow for the f
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