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What do some of the greatest outliers in business history have in common?
For the past year, I’ve been sharing the stories of history’s greatest outliers like James Dyson, Harvey Firestone, Rose Blumkin, Henry Singleton, Sol Price, and Les Schwab. These are names that deserve to be studied, but rarely are.
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This episode explores the mindsets, systems and patterns history’s most notable outliers used to turn adversity into long-term advantage.
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