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The Infinite Game:
Companies exist to advance something – technology, quality of life or anything else with the potential to ease or enhance our lives in some way, shape or form.
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075 |
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The Infinite Game:
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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078 |
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The Infinite Game:
This the great irony. The defenders of finite-minded capitalism act in a way that actually imperils the survival of the very companies from which they aim to profit.
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079 |
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The Infinite Game:
There is no such thing as constant growth, nor is there any rule that says high-speed growth is necessarily a great strategy when building a company to last.
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080 |
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The Infinite Game:
Opening stores is not what makes a company successful; having those stores operate well is.
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080 |
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The Infinite Game:
The art of good leadership is the ability to look beyond the growth plan and the willingness to act prudently when something is not ready or not right, even if it means slowing things down.
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080 |
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The Infinite Game:
Finite-focused leaders are often loath to sacrifice near-term gains, even if it’s the right things to do for the future, because near-term gains are the ones that are most visible to the market.
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081 |
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The Infinite Game:
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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082 |
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The Infinite Game:
…executives need to go back to seeing themselves as stewards of great institutions that exist to serve all the stakeholders.
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083 |
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The Infinite Game:
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 |
