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The Art of Profitability:
To succeed in business, you have to have a genuine, honest-to-goodness interest in profitability. And most people don’t.
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The Art of Profitability:
What separates the winners and losers in innovation is who masters the drudgery.
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The Art of Profitability:
Reality is much more complicated and promising than our limited imaginations often let us recognize.
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The Art of Profitability:
The hardest thing in business is to keep the entrepreneurial spirit alive and flourishing in the wake of continued success.
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The Art of Profitability:
If you invent something – a solution to a problem – and you are well known as a specialist, you can sell that same solution over and over…
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The Art of Profitability:
…most of the cost is in the development of the solution, the idea. If you can replicate it and price to market, the operating cost can be quite low.
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The Art of Profitability:
There are four levels to learning: Awareness. Awkwardness. Application. Assimilation.
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The Art of Profitability:
The combination of curiosity and lead time can convert any chore into a delightful, exploratory puzzle.
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The Art of Profitability:
Puzzles solved have far more penetration and staying power than chores completed.
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The Art of Profitability:
There are places in the value chain, that are ten times more valuable than others in terms of profit, power, and control.
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