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Ask questions. Who’s making the most profit for your company or bringing in the most business? Who has the most creative ideas? Who has the most industry connections? You’ll soon learn where value is placed. When you know what’s most valued, you can start to add to that.
Bec Brown • You've Got This: The essential career handbook for creative women
pizza delivery) ought to think very hard about it. Take on-demand laundry start-up Washio, which was soon competing with Cleanly, FlyCleaners and other on-demand laundry apps with the same technology. With little else to differentiate it, Washio found it hard to stand out, and closed in August 2016, despite raising $16.8 million. One way of thinkin
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“Good Jobs Strategy”: “The strategy creates superior value by combining investment in employees with four operational choices that increase their productivity, contribution, and motivation. These choices are: focus and simplify,
Felix Oberholzer-Gee • Better, Simpler Strategy: A Value-Based Guide to Exceptional Performance
think having something nobody else has is the best customer-acquisition tool in the world, right?”
Randall E. Stross • eBoys: The First Inside Account of Venture Capitalists at Work
Dale Carnegie’s How to Win Friends and Influence People for sales, Andy Grove’s High Output Management for CEOs, or Robert Cialdini’s Influence for marketing and personal relationships.
Daniel Gross • Talent: How to Identify Energizers, Creatives, and Winners Around the World
If the person does engage in daily, intensive self-improvement, perhaps eschewing more typical and more social pursuits, there is a greater chance they are the kind of creative obsessive who can make a big difference.
