From the course: What They Don't Teach You at Harvard Business School (Blinkist Summary)
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Focus on quality
From the course: What They Don't Teach You at Harvard Business School (Blinkist Summary)
Focus on quality
- [Instructor] Blink number five. Focus on quality, and don't grow your business faster than necessary. At business school, you're taught the dry stuff. How to balance a budget, what supply and demand means and how inflation impacts businesses. But how do you put this into practice? How do you actually run a company? What matters first of all is quality. Whether it's the quality of clients, employees, or products, this has to be the focus from the start. Consider the author. He founded IMG, an international management organization for sports figures and celebrities in 1960. Arnold Palmer, now considered one of the greatest golfers ever, was his first client. At the time, however, Palmer had only won one championship. The next two clients, Gary Player and Jack Nicklaus were also golfers and were also relative unknowns. Still, the author could see their positive qualities. They had class, character, and were courageous and determined. These were traits he wanted to represent with his…
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