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Leading Thoughts for April 16, 2020

Leading Blog

Jack Trout on the simple approach to success: “Trying harder, believing in yourself, walking on fire, and saying, ‘yes I can’ are not steps up the ladder of success. The surprising truth is that success does not spring from anything inside yourself at all. Success is something given to you by others.

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The Dell Deal Explained: What a Successful Turnaround Looks Like

Harvard Business Review

How Dell went from dorm room startup in 1984, to the world''s largest PC maker in 2005, and then saw its stock plummet precipitously the next year, is the subject of a lengthy Harvard Business School case study by HBS professor Jan Rivkin. Dell''s success can be attributed in large part to its "direct model." The Case of IBM.

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How Would You Restore U.S. Competitiveness?

Harvard Business Review

Rivkin, how to better enable companies operating in the U.S. "to Competitiveness project spearheaded by Porter and Rivkin, and by experts we've invited to participate in the HBR Insight Center on American Competitiveness. All those articles and blog posts are of course open for comments, and there have been some great ones.

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How Companies Can Help Rebuild America’s Common Resources

Harvard Business Review

But these trends also had more negative consequences, as Jan Rivkin and Michael Porter have argued in their work as co-chairs of Harvard Business School’s U.S. Business has a key role to play in restoring America’s commons, but of course it can’t do so alone. Competitiveness Project. In the Minneapolis-St.