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What Entrepreneurs Can Learn from the Business Mind of Ryanair's Michael O'Leary
Michael O'Leary, the CEO of Ryanair, is the maverick who turned a small Irish airline into a budget flight behemoth. His story isn't just about cheap tickets; it's a masterclass in ruthless efficiency.
The Human Side of Business Metrics: Surprising Ways Emotions Impact Performance
Metrics aren't just numbers; they're stories about people. Behind every data point is a late night, a brainstorm, or a moment of inspiration. Understanding this hidden layer is key to decoding performance..
The best book on marketing ever written?
Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind by Al Ries & Jack Trout created a revolution in the advertising and marketing fields. @
Tilman Fertitta’s golden rules of business leadership
It should be no surprise that a book titled Shut up and Listen! is packed with hard-nosed business strategies. According to Tilman Fertitta, that no-nonsense style is the very thing that made him a billionaire – and here’s what it can teach you...
Start a business from nothing (and make it worth something)
Becoming your own boss has never been easier. To start your own “microbusiness”, you just need three things: 1) A product/service to sell; 2) Customers who’ll pay for it; 3) A way for them to pay.
The Jack Welch guide to running a company
During Jack Welch’s 20-year reign as chairman and CEO of General Electric (GE), the company’s stock price grew by 4,000% and revenues increased by $105bn. He was named “manager of the century” by Fortune and retired with a severance payment of $417m in 2001.
John D Rockefeller and the power of monopoly
Long before Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk lived the original business “Titan”: John D Rockefeller.
What's it like to work at Tesla?
Tesla’s internal employee handbook has been leaked, and it’s unlike other onboarding manuals you’ve seen.
Why are the two founders of Google stepping down? What’s next for Google?
Ever since 1998 when Larry Page and Sergey Brin founded Google, the two have been at the helm of operations. On December 3 of 2019, Page and Brin officially stepped down from their executive roles at Google’s parent company, Alphabet. They continue as majority stockholders.
9 Leadership Lessons from 9 Years Working at Tesla
After 9 years of working for Tesla, Jorge Milburn (currently its Director Sales & Delivery Operations for the EMEA region) reflected on the priceless pearls of wisdom he's harvested. Brace for insights worth cherishing... 👇 🧵
How (and Why) Companies Try to Balance Profit and Principles
Having spent my career in human resources for companies of various sizes, one big thing that has changed is a focus on corporate 'ethics': a tightrope walk between profit and principles. In today’s business world, it's not just about making money but also how you make it.
The power of a name
In their landmark 1981 book Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind, Al Ries & Jack Trout challenged a lot of conventional thinking in marketing and advertising. @
How leveraged buyouts defined 1980s excess
The “yuppie” heyday of the 1980s is perfectly reflected in the fate of Ross Johnson, CEO of a company called RJR Nabisco. But the story runs far deeper than the fate of one man. It’s a tale of how a straightforward business practice became a vehicle for greed.
What makes Spotify’s Daniel Ek a different kind of leader…
To the outside world, Daniel Ek has been CEO of Spotify since co-founding it in 2006. In his mind, he’s had eight different roles in that time. (They just happen to have the same title.) That’s because everyone at Spotify, from top to bottom, is on a jour
Why the book “Business Adventures” is so popular with tycoons...
John Brooks’ bestselling book “Business Adventures” is considered a classic for its timeless insights into corporate life. It examines 12 critical moments in the 20th century that shaped the business world in different ways. Here are the key lessons...
What factors matter most for startup success?
The great thing about the dynamic of a start-up is that if you take a group of people with the right equity incentives and organize them in a startup, you can unlock human potential like never before. You get them to achieve unbelievable things.
The SMaC recipe explained: A simple way to boost your business
A SMaC recipe is a technique for converting strategic business plans into reality through a 10-point list of actionable points.
The Story of AeroPress: How Ignoring Modern Business Rules Fueled a Coffee Revolution
How often do you find a gadget that's both cheap and indispensable? Let me tell you about the AeroPress: a coffee maker with a devoted following – and a wildly unconventional inventor...
The rise and hubris of a Chinese tech giant: Tencent -by Author Lulu Chen
Behind the great firewall of China, there is a parallel universe. There's a Baidu instead of Google, a Weibo rather than Twitter and Alibaba instead of Amazon. Lulu Chen narrates the story of Tencent; China's first tech company that was valued over $500bn in only a decade.
In Search of Excellence: What makes a company outstanding
When Tom Peters and Robert Waterman researched the qualities shared by America's best-run companies, they found eight basic principles for excellence. Although the research was conducted over 40 years ago, across 43 businesses in six industries, it's as relevant as ever...
How the Criterion Collection became a pantheon of cinema
The Criterion Collection is an outlier. At a time when physical media is dying, its line of DVDs and Blu-rays are more popular than ever. Somehow that catalog has formed a “Louvre of movies”, as director Wes Anderson put it, and a one-stop film school you
What this investor learned after studying EVERY company on the stock market
Warren Buffett was once quizzed about the advice he would give to young investors starting out. The interviewer asked: “Where should they start?”
How to increase productivity and happiness by becoming a digital minimalist
The world has changed since the first iPhone was released in 2007. The smartphone has transformed the way many of us live. We’re always “on”, always reachable, forever checking and refreshing.
How to make sure your investments are ethical
Socially conscious investors are increasingly drawn towards ESG funds, where environmental, social and governance factors are used to measure the sustainability and ethical impact of an investment. But it can involve some tough choices… @
Important notes from Wedgewood’s Q4 2019 Investor Letter
By the end of 2019, Wedgewood Partners Inc. saw gains of 31.96%. Top performers in its portfolio included Apple, Facebook and Visa, while lowest performers included Qualcomm, Alcon and Cognizant Technology solutions.