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Your Whole Company Needs to Be Distinctive, Not Just Your Product

Harvard Business Review

But we are also regularly reminded of the lack of true differentiation in most mainstream global companies — and of the opportunities they are thus squandering. But starting in the early 2000s, the advantages of scale were mostly eliminated, in large part because of globalization, deregulation, and the rise of digital technology.

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Why the U.S. Needs More Worker-Owned Companies

Harvard Business Review

Last year 400 members of IAM Maine Lobstering Union bought the wholesale operation of Trenton Bridge Lobster Pound and turned it into a worker-owned cooperative called Lobster 207. Worker buyouts are particularly likely to blossom in industries with organized workers who transition to union cooperatives.

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