The rest of the story

Yesterday we told you about Darwin Smith.
Darwin was the CEO of Kimberly-Clark.
The paper company had become stodgy.
Its stock value was falling.
On top of that, Darwin had cancer.
His doctors gave him a year to live.
He flew weekly to Houston for therapy.
Then he and his team took on Procter & Gamble.
They sold their core business, coated paper mills.
They believed consumer paper products were their future.
They welcomed the challenge of the competition.
They felt it would make them better. And it did.
It took them 20 years but they won.
The company leads the world in consumer paper products.
Their stock rose four times faster than the rest of the market.
They beat their chief rival, Procter & Gamble.
And they acquired their other major rival, Scott Paper.
Darwin Smith lived 25 more years. He was a role model.
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