How Trump Invented Trump: Inside the empire
With The Donald in the news days, Bloomberg Business takes a long look at how he built his empire.
“Hey, if you want a nice, easy, OK life, you can be in the pack … but if you really want to do something, you do have to get out of the pack.” – Donald Rump
This is a podcast from PwC’s Strategy + Business journal.
The unusual perspective of high-performing entrepreneurs allows them to turn good ideas into great businesses.
Why Zappos’ CEO Lives in a Trailer, and 13 Other Things You Don’t Know About Him
I have always admired people who don’t let money go to their heads and continue living normal lives even after they have achieve great wealth. Tony Hsieh is one of them. Not only that but he gets involved with the community, in his case Las Vegas, to help make it a better place.
Tony reminds us all that there’s far more to life than personal aggrandizement.
By the way, he has a new book out on management. It’s titled Holocracy and is now on my reading list.
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So How are Marcus’s Growth Strategies Panning Out?
In this ninth, and I assume penultimate episode, of the third season, Marcus revisits three businesses from the first two seasons to let us know how they are doing.
Sweet Pete’s Candy
I was very impressed, as I am sure you were, with the rapid growth of Sweet Pete’s Candy. Pete and Allison are the kind of honest and hardworking people you really want to see do well in business.
Marcus Lemonis Develops a Growth Strategy for The Lano Company
The Lano Company is a Kansas City, Missouri based business launched ten years ago by Miranda when she developed a lanolin lip balm. Since then she and her business partner husband Layne have expanded the product line dramatically and grown the top line to $2.4 million as of 2014.
Let’s look at the situation using the 3Ps.
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