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Recommended Resources – An Interview with Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi, authors of The Essential Advantage

Strategy Driven

Those companies that focus on building a system of three to six best-in-class, interlocking capabilities that support their way to play achieve a right to win in their industries. This, in turn, increases the company’s leverage with suppliers and allows it to be extraordinarily efficient in moving inventory and managing working capital.

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A Playbook for Making America More Entrepreneurial

Harvard Business Review

We see ourselves as risk-takers and innovators. Although it’s difficult to measure directly, entrepreneurship is understood to be a way to a middle class life. In fact, we know a lot about what works from observing this recent experimentation. A supplier might need a working capital loan to finance a big order.