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What Connects Coca-Cola, Lego, In-N-Out, Intuit, and Nike? Focus.

In the CEO Afterlife

This can mean expanding product lines, entering new markets and geographies, line extending brands, acquiring new businesses, creating projects, and adding layers of management to manage the self-created complexity. They’ve never franchised. Surely, the newfound margin will drop to the bottom line – it will not. and going public?

Apparel 100
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The Big Picture of Business: The Colonel and Me

Strategy Driven

The second was at what was the fourth KFC franchise to open in the United States. There became too many competitors, too much franchising, too much hype and just as many who exited the industry as quickly as they entered it. Ethics cannot be edicted from afar. The KFC empire grew, and a burgeoning fast food industry engulfed it.