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“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” — Winston Churchill In 1994, Jeff Bezos left a lucrative Wall Street career to start an online bookstore out of his garage in Seattle. He focused obsessively on customer satisfaction and long-term thinking, investing relentlessly in infrastructure that could […]

“The secret to successful scaling isn’t doing more of what got you here — it’s learning to do different things well.” — Reid Hoffman In 2011, Airbnb faced a problem most founders would consider enviable: it was growing so fast that the growth itself was threatening to break the company. Bookings were doubling month over […]

“Cash flow is the lifeblood of any business. You can have profits on paper, but if you can’t pay your bills, you’re dead.” — Richard Branson Chapter 10 of Worth the Work opens with a story that makes Branson’s point uncomfortably real. A founder — call her Jessica — launches a boutique marketing agency with […]

Napoleon Hill’s line opens Chapter 4 of Worth the Work, and it names the exact place where a lot of promising businesses never actually start: the gap between having a compelling vision and having something you can act on Monday morning. The trap of eloquent generalities Worth the Work illustrates this with a founder — […]

Research cited by Forbes has found that companies with strong cultures grow revenue up to four times faster than competitors with weak ones. Not because culture makes people happier, though it often does, but because culture is the operating system that determines how fast and how well every other decision in your business gets made. […]