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The Companies Firing Fastest Will Die First by Howard Yu

The 2026 AI layoffs are repeating the mistake that killed Circuit City. And Hubert Joly, who saved Best Buy, told me the alternative on camera.

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The Science Of Moral Decoupling by Howard Yu

How good companies slide into moral catastrophe without a single villain

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What Nokia Teaches Any Company Bolting AI in 2026 by Howard Yu

The two-day wait that ended Nokia. It saw the iPhone coming. But it still couldn’t move because of the broken process.

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Your Next Customer Is a Machine by Howard Yu

For 25 years, the internet economy ran on one assumption: Humans click. But in China, they have stopped.

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Stop Renting Your Future by Howard Yu

Why the world’s most valuable companies are suddenly buying nuclear plants, pouring concrete, and owning the whole stack.

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The Country That Forgot How to Build by Howard Yu

Every tech giant in America is now also an electric utility. China builds five reactors for the price of one. Forty years ago, Challenger should have taught us how. We mostly missed the lesson.

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Why America Can Build After All by Howard Yu

For 18 years, California has been trying to build a bullet train. In 122 days, xAI built a supercomputer.

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The $11 Billion Triumph, The $39 Million Collapse, and the Clog That Conquered the World by Howard Yu

On Running, Allbirds, and Crocs reveal what separates brands that last from brands that die.

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Coase vs. Claude and The Future of the Firm by Howard Yu

How AI Agents and the Death of Normal Are Rewriting Organizations

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The Barriers to Collaboration [Survey] by Howard Yu

A 20-Minute Exercise That Names the Real Problem

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How Organizations Lose Their Minds — From Circuit City to the 2026 AI Layoffs by Howard Yu

Four Books That Show the Companies Firing Fastest Will Die First

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[VIDEO] The Xiaomi Comeback: From "Unicorpse" to the World's Hottest EV by Howard Yu

A video essay on one of the wildest corporate resurrections in history.

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The Cell That Didn't Catch Fire by Howard Yu

Inside BYD’s Showroom — and the Thirty-Year Odyssey That Built It

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The Panic That Built WeChat's $700 Billion Super-App by Howard Yu

Silicon Valley is selling agents as the next era. But Tencent in Shenzhen had figured it out a decade ago.

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The Ninth Visa by Howard Yu

How one rejected Chinese engineer, and thousands like him, built America's AI empire

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Did John Deere Build the Future, or a Cage? by Howard Yu

One man’s harvest storm exposes the tech takeover of America’s heartland, and the fight to reclaim the keys

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The One Chart That Explains Everything by Howard Yu

And the seven books that make sense of America's AI Anxiety and China's AI Optimism

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The Battle for Fashion’s Soul by Howard Yu

How Zara Fought Off Shein and Outmaneuvered the Ultra-Fast Fashion Tide

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"Our Company Is 30 Days from Going Out of Business." How Jensen Huang Runs a $5 Trillion Company. by Howard Yu

Inside the paranoia, 60 direct reports, and weekend whiskey emails that built the world's most valuable company

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How Xiaomi Broke Every Law of Corporate Death by Howard Yu

Before its electric car stunned the world, CEO Lei Jun had to pull off a near-impossible comeback. This is how he did it.

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The Loop: How American Profits Built Chinese Power by Howard Yu

Apple taught precision. Tesla taught speed. Every “shock” from China now follows the same script.

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The Two Boxes Exercise: A Field Guide for Your Team by Howard Yu

Welcome! You’re One Inch Ahead Already 🎯

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Before Apple Disrupted Everything, Sony Did It First. Steve Jobs Never Forgot. by Howard Yu

While everyone studies Apple's innovation playbook, they're missing the company that wrote it. Here is the untold story of how Sony taught Silicon Valley to disrupt.

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Excellence Kills, Capabilities Save. by Howard Yu

How Yamaha, BYD, and Nvidia build a stack that keeps them future-ready

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When Act II Isn’t Enough: Adobe, Figma, and the Next Business Cliff by Howard Yu

Adobe’s story shows why Act III—the network era—always arrives faster than you expect

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The Automation Fork in the Road: Where Does Your AI Path Lead? by Howard Yu

If an AI plan demoralizes the people required to make it work, then it’s not automation. It’s erosion.

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The Assembly Line in the Sky by Howard Yu

The True Costs of Progress and the Need to Scale by Imagination, Not Extraction

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Quietly Crushing It: Why Silent CEOs Keep Beating the Loud Ones by Howard Yu

Hard data, brain science, and an Antarctic thriller reveal why quiet leadership is the real advantage.

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The Unteachable King: Why Zuckerberg Can’t Build the Future by Howard Yu

How Absolute Power Trapped Meta — And Why Steve Jobs Broke Free

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Why Nike Ran Back to Amazon—And Why It Scares Every Marketer by Howard Yu

How Silicon-Valley Thinking Nearly Destroyed the World’s Greatest Brand

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The Strategy Musk Missed: How BYD Became Tesla’s Nightmare by Howard Yu

Once dismissed by Elon Musk, BYD—short for “Build Your Dreams”—outsold Tesla in Europe in 2025. BYD’s slow-burn playbook for domination offers lessons for every business.

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Did America Just Hand China the Future of AI? by Howard Yu

How the sanctions boomerang is fueling Beijing’s tech dominance—and what it means for you.

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What Harvard and J.D. Vance Teach Us About Loyalty’s Breaking Point by Howard Yu

Defiance as Strategy—How the Right “No” Becomes Your Brand’s Strongest “Yes”

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Easter Egg Hunt: How Trump’s Trade Policy Has Businesses Scrambling for Loopholes by Howard Yu

Sky-High Tariffs, Shifting Rules, and a Hidden “Made in China” Shuffle—What You Need to Know

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Achieve Light Speed Like Nvidia. Welcome to Work Atomization. by Howard Yu

The Invisible Bottleneck That's Killing Your Career—and 5 Steps to Shatter It Today

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RANKED: The Travel Companies Ready For AI Agents [New Report] by Howard Yu

Discover How AI Is Rewriting the Rules of Your Next Vacation

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The Two Sides of Musk: Iconoclast and Ineptocrat by Howard Yu

How Elon inspires so much rage in the classroom, dominates electric cars and rockets, yet flounders at X.

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How a 30-Year-Old Chart Explains Intel’s Fall, Nvidia’s Rise, and DeepSeek’s Disruption by Howard Yu

Timeless Lessons From Clay—And a Gift to the World

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Two Charts Show Presidential Productivity Doesn’t Depend on Early Rising by Howard Yu

The myth of superhuman productivity, forget about the 5 a.m. alarm.

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