Profit from the Core
Chris Zook & James Allen
On finding the next adjacency without abandoning the business that fed you.
Featured
The books, ideas, and people we keep coming back to.
Reading list
Books we recommend.
The Founder's Mentality
Chris Zook & James Allen
Why insurgent thinking and frontline obsession outlast scale advantages.
Repeatability
Chris Zook
Building durable advantage through codified, replicable models.
Good to Great
Jim Collins
The disciplined choices that turn good companies into enduring ones.
The Outsiders
William N. Thorndike
Eight unconventional CEOs and the capital-allocation playbook behind their returns.
High Output Management
Andy Grove
Still the clearest book ever written on operational leadership.
Committed to excellence
People and organizations we believe deserve a wider audience.
Mercer Foundry Co.
For rebuilding a 90-year-old manufacturing line without losing a single shift of throughput.
Dr. Elena Park
For shipping a clinical trial protocol that other teams now reference as the standard.
Northbound Logistics
For a frontline operating model that turned attrition from crisis to competitive moat.
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