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Rebel Entrepreneurs Avoid Conventional Wisdom

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He describes lessons like don’t rely on others to fund your idea, imitate creatively, keep value higher than price, pivot often, and why they typically don’t get loans from big banks. However, as many successful companies have shown, the best policy is often to raise your prices. Take pricing strategies, for instance.

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Why Leaders Need to Think More Like Professional Gamblers

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After graduating from the University of Oxford with a physics degree, he went into securities trading, first at Yamaichi International and then at the Bank of America. Benham is a renowned, albeit somewhat inaccessible, figure in the British gambling world. That inspired Benham to leave his day job and focus on gambling.

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The Main Thing: How to Keep Organizations Centered on What Matters Most

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The CEO of Connecticut's Farmington Bank told George that its Main Thing is to "Drive economic development in central Connecticut.". In these cases people and policies work at cross-purpose; one person is pulling when the other guy is pushing. But a strategy is not The Main Thing; it is merely its servant.