Reading Time: 3 minutes A Bigger Prize: How We Can Do Better Than the Competition (Doubleday Canada, 2014, 391 pp.)$ 32.95. It’s the bedrock of economics, and it’s all about how you compete in markets to sell at the best price you can get, and to buy at the lowest price you can pay. Two centuries ago, Adam Smith […] Read more
‘A Bigger Prize’ author ruthless in the race to get attention
Competition isn't everything, differentiation holds the key
Grow from within: Three timely reads for farms at a crossroads
Sometimes, that streak of independence in farmers is simple bullheadedness. Other times, it’s business smarts at their sharpest
Reading Time: 6 minutes Books Reviewed Bounce: Mozart, Federer, Picasso, Beckham, and the Science of Success (HarperCollins, 2010) By Matthew Syed Chasing Stars: The Myth of Talent and the Portability of Performance (Princeton University Press, 2010) By Boris Groysberg Scaling Up Excellence: Getting to More Without Settling for Less (Random House, 2014) By Robert I. Sutton and Huggy Rao When the big […] Read more
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