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Summary: While many larger firms and wirehouses are tied to legacy technology infrastructure, advisors who break away from these firms and go independent have the freedom to embrace new technologies.
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Summary: Many good practitioners achieve the objective of building a profitable practice easily enough. After all, that is little more than keeping the sales and revenue pumping at a faster rate than it costs to run the business, right? Once the sales and revenue part is figured out and there is enough business coming in to cover the operating costs and practitioners remuneration, there is a profit for the business.
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Summary: The odds of a person eventually suffering a cyberattack are “pretty much 100% at this point,” according to Bill Slattery, a former FBI special agent in the cyber division who now investigates cybercrime for Facebook.
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Summary: In the span of barely 10 years, some of the world’s largest companies have sprouted seemingly out of nowhere, dominating industries whose incumbents have been around for decades, despite the upstarts not actually producing any goods or services. The key driver that makes the platforms so extraordinary: network effects, or the phenomenon that the more people use the platform, the more desirable of a marketplace it is for other people to use.
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Summary: Last week while speaking in Atlanta to 120 advisors, swimming trials were being held, and many asked me what makes the split-second differences – is it a particular training exercise, diet, or rest? What separates those who will go on to make history from the other competitors? What’s the one thing that matters most?
