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on the atlas — 4

• Food& is the Berlin-based magazine inviting us to have unusual encounters with food – Friends of Friends / Freunde von Freunden1 savers
• To be a Technologist is to be Human - Letters to a Young Technologist18 savers
• When Growth Stalls1 savers
• Curius / Onboarding2621 savers

highlights — 3

• The second most frequent cause of growth stalls is what we call innovation management breakdown: some chronic problem in managing the internal business processes for updating existing products and services and creating new ones.

  When Growth Stalls

• By far the largest category of factors responsible for serious revenue stalls is what we have labeled premium-position captivity: the inability of a firm to respond effectively to new, low-cost competitive challenges or to a significant shift in customer valuation of product features.

  When Growth Stalls

• Starting [at a young age] he’s read everything that he could find about business. The subject that interests him, he’s read newspapers, biographies, trade press. He went over to his grandfather who was a grocer and he read the progressive grocer magazine, and he read articles on how to stock a meat department... What he’s really done is he’s created this immense vertical filing cabinet in his brain of layers and layers and layers of files of information that he can draw back on now for more than 70 years worth of data.

  Curius / Onboarding