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All your efforts at publicity, promotion, and branding need to feed into your mission; if they’re only feeding into your ego, you’ll find yourself with a reputation you hadn’t bargained for…

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Community games have important benefits to our real lives. They may lead us to new interests – public spaces or public instructions we discover we care about more than we’d thought…

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When we make a statement, whether it’s public or just to ourselves, we tend to want to be consistent with that statement.

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When leaders publicly change their minds, it shows that they’re smart enough to realize they made a mistake, secure enough to admit the mistake, and willing to risk their reputation to do the right thing.

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Whatever the error, sin, or mistake, apologies fail when listeners know that the speaker has to say something to reassure the public but the statement feels formulaic and obligatory…

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when there is incontrovertible evidence of wrongdoing, the public longs to hear authorities own up, without weaseling or blowing smoke, followed by the next part: ‘And I will do my best to ensure that it will not happen again.’

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It’s a big open secret among the vast majority of public-company executives that the theory of shareholder primacy and the pressure Wall Street exerts on them are actually bad for business.

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The fact is, public companies are different from private companies and do not need to conform to the same traditional definition of ownership.

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Professionals’ education must be complemented by that of the broader public.

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Public corporations face incessant pressure from the capital markets to grow as fast as possible, and we cannot deny this fact.

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