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Extreme Focus and the Success of Germany's Mittelstand

Harvard Business Review

But the truth is that the really successful companies are highly focused, achieving unprecedented efficiencies by designing a business model with a razor-thin focus and learning to do the one thing really well. Our own favorite US-based examples of such successful companies are Diapers.com and messenger bag manufacturer Timbuk2.