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Zuckerberg Wore a Hoodie to His Own IPO Roadshow. Jobs Wore the Same Black Turtleneck for Thirty Years. Neither of Them Was Reading the Room.
Most people have to read what a room requires, and the work of doing it correctly is real and measurable. A small number of people don't -- not because of what they wear, but because of what they control. The wardrobe is a symptom. The control is the actual variable.
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Steve Wozniak didn't design the Apple I because he was smarter than everyone who didn't. He designed it because he was in a garage in Men...
The tax nobody sees you paying
Two ways to say the exact same thing: "no fronting" and "do not pretend." One is publishable in a formal paper. The other isn't -- not be...
Get in where you fit in
Three career choices, thirty years apart, opened three unrelated rooms -- a Navy oceanographic command, the New York publishing world, re...
Nevada and Iowa Have Almost the Same Population. One Has Eight Louis Vuitton Stores. The Other Has None.
A tier of retail exists that most of the country has never had reason to know about -- not because it costs too much, but because the sto...
By 2003, Sean John Was in 2,000 Stores Nationwide. Louis Vuitton Was in About 30 Cities. Both Built Real Belonging. Only One Needed a Gate.
Louis Vuitton, Hermes, and Bottega Veneta cluster in a small list of money-center metros and, for at least one brand, gate their scarcest...
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