Posts tagged strategy

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Position or Perish: The Narrative Blueprint

Avis was losing $3.2 million a year; and they'd been unprofitable for thirteen straight. 

In 1962, they sat at number two in American car rental, well behind Hertz, with no plausible path to catching up. Robert Townsend, the new president, hired Doyle Dane Bernbach and asked them to do

Pmarchive · Pmarca Guide to Career Planning: Skills and education

Marc Andreeson is a somewhat legendry technologist. His advice may not fit you, but it is still worth listeneing to: "Some people argue that college will be your one chance in life to pursue your passion—to spend four years doing nothing but studying whatever you love the most, whether that’s Renaissance literature or existential philosophy.

I disagree."