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Don’t become synonymous with your company. If buyers aren’t confident that your business can run without you in charge, they won’t make their best offer.
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147 |
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…contrary to how they are seen in business culture, managers and directors are people too.
|
171 |
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No matter how successful we are in life, when we die, none of us will be declared the winner of life. And there is certainly no such thing as winning business.
|
004 |
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The game of business has no finish line.
|
006 |
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Despite the fact that companies are playing in a game that cannot be won, too many business leaders keep playing as if they can.
|
006 |
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…business is an infinite game, which means the series of short terms never ends.
|
053 |
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Business today is subject to a dizzying rate of change. And all that change seems to be taking its toll.
|
070 |
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…for the past 40+ years, we have been building companies with a definition of business that is actually bad for business and undermines the very system of capitalism it proclaims to embrace.
|
072 |
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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.
|
078 |
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If the true purpose of business was only to make money, there would be no need for so many companies to pretend to be cause or purpose driven.
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083 |
