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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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Can the U.S. Become a Base for Serving the Global Economy?

Harvard Business Review

private-sector research and development. The United States cannot rest on past success and take its multinationals for granted. These concerns can be heard in many places: the sobering survey by Michael Porter and Jan Rivkin in HBR's special March issue on U.S. Yes, but success is not guaranteed. of all U.S.

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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. If companies want to invest in the common resources that ensure their success — and they should — they need to learn to effectively collaborate across sectors.