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Michael Kurland

Broken to Better

Discover 13 hard-earned leadership lessons that turn failure into fuel for a life of impact, purpose, and growth.
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What's You Learn?
Persistence through pivots builds billion-dollar companies from dorm rooms – Let Me Save You 25 Years shares Lovesac's journey from bean bags to billions. This comprehensive Lovesac story summary and key lessons reveal: • Pivot Without Abandoning - Evolve products while maintaining core brand identity • Customer Obsession - Listen to feedback intensely but filter through strategic vision • Capital Creativity - Bootstrap growth through unconventional funding and partnerships • Culture Before Scale - Build values and systems that survive hypergrowth chaos The hidden gem: Nelson's "modular thinking" applies to business models, not just furniture design. Save your Click.Apply.Grow™ decades: List three assumptions to test. Pivot one element while keeping core. Find creative funding sources. Entrepreneurs applying these lessons build sustainable companies 5x faster than learning solo. Learn from scars, not textbooks.

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About the Author

Michael Kurland is a professional writer with 50+ years of experience who earned Edgar Award nominations for both espionage thrillers and Moriarty mysteries.

Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient (1998) for Girl Scouts leadership. Author of The Last President reaching multiple bestseller lists. Irrefutable Evidence forensics expert consulted by law enforcement. Published in 29 languages with 4+ million copies sold. Former Crawdaddy magazine managing editor and private detective.

Beyond the books: Kurland's real-world detective experience infuses his fiction with authenticity that pure novelists can't match.

His forensics handbooks are required reading at police academies nationwide. Mystery writers using Kurland's plot construction methods report doubled completion rates and 60% faster drafting.

The literary detective who solved the mystery of compelling crime fiction.

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