If a market leader like Adobe gets complacent one year, it will still count billions of dollars in the bank, but if a startup gets complacent, it’s g… - Reid Hoffman

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Relationship builders, on the other hand, try to help other people first. They don’t keep score. They’re aware that many good deeds get reciprocated, but they’re not calculated about it. And they think about their relationships all the time, not just when they need something.

Zara takes only two weeks to develop a new product and get it into stores — the industry average is six months — and launches over ten thousand new designs per year, a rate several times that of competitors like H&M and Gap. Zara holds just six days of inventory, while rival H&M holds nearly ten times as much.