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Logistics For Your Business

Strategy Driven

Setting up your website, working on getting finances sorted, they are all part and parcel of a startup too. Fast Company, March 2001. All of the logistics need to be worked out and in play pretty early on in your business planning. In other words, you must win through superior logistics.”. Priorities.

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Sometimes Cutting R&D Spending Can Yield More Innovation

Harvard Business Review

The chart may appear to show merely that Cisco’s patent filings lagged its R&D spending by three years, but in fact the decline in spending and the rise in patents were part and parcel of a deliberate strategic shift by the company in 2001. So what was going on?

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14 Principles that Made Amazon

Skip Prichard

Failure comes part and parcel with invention” (Bezos 2013 letter). Bezos invited Collins to Amazon a few months before Collin’s book was published in 2001 to teach the senior leadership team the flywheel concept. There are a couple of principles which seem to stand out. Encourage Successful Failure (Principle 1).

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