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The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations
Ori Brafman and Rod A. Beckstrom
Penguin Group 2006What’s the hidden power behind the success of Wikipedia, craigslist, and Skype? What do eBay and General Electric have in common with the abolitionist and women’s rights movements? What fundamental choice put General Motors and Toyota on vastly different paths? Why is it virtually impossible to win the war on terrorism through military means? Continue reading here...
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Interview with John Mackey: A Whole Foods "Stakeholder" Model For Better Business… And Bigger Profits
by Dr. Mark Skousen, Chairman, Investment ULast week in Guatemala I met up with John Mackey, CEO of Whole Foods Market (Nasdaq: WFMI), the fastest-growing organic food supermarket chain in the world.
I’ve known John now for four years, and we’ve developed a friendship, with our common interests in book reading, free-market economics, investments, sports, healthy living and spiritual growth. Like Bill Gates, who dropped out of college, John is a brilliant thinker and entrepreneur who’s turned Whole Foods into an $8 billion company. And his business model is spreading like wildfire… Continue reading here...
Firms Of Endearment: Wall Street’s Next Hot Strategy (the "Stakeholder Strategy") Is Up 205%
by Mark Skousen, Chairman, Investment UThe world’s greatest hockey player, Wayne Gretzky, once described his success this way: “A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.”
We here at Investment U take the same attitude with fads on Wall Street. Over the years, I’ve witnessed huge amounts of money being made following a hot strategy, whether it be the Nifty Fifty in the late 1960s, or the Dogs of the Dow in the 1990s. But these techniques work only for a few years, and then fall out of favor when the crowd jumps in. Continue reading here...
