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How the Mighty Fall:
…effective teaching: don’t try to come up with the right answers; focus on coming up with good questions.
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How the Mighty Fall:
…organizational decline, unlike cancer, is largely self-inflicted.
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How the Mighty Fall:
If companies… once the unquestioned champions in their fields, can plummet from great to irrelevant, then we should be wary about our own success.
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How the Mighty Fall:
There is no law of nature that the most powerful will inevitably remain at the top. Anyone can fail and most eventually do.
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How the Mighty Fall:
…just as great companies can topple, some rise again.
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How the Mighty Fall:
…that’s what makes the process of decline so terrifying; it can sneak up on you, and then – seemingly, all of a sudden – you’re in big trouble.
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How the Mighty Fall:
Great companies can become insulated by success; accumulated momentum can carry and enterprise forward, for a while, even if its leaders make poor decisions or lose discipline.
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How the Mighty Fall:
When an organization grows beyond its ability to fill its key seats with the right people, it has set itself up for a fall.
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How the Mighty Fall:
Although complacency and resistance to change remain dangers to any successful enterprise, overreaching better captures how the mighty fall.
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How the Mighty Fall:
Initial results from taking dramatic action may appear positive, but they do not last.
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