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The Advantage:
…waiting for clear confirmation that a decision is exactly right is a recipe for mediocrity and almost a guarantee of eventual failure.
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80 |
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The Advantage:
…organizations learn by making decisions, even bad ones.
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80 |
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The Advantage:
…enduring organizations understand the fundamental reason they were founded and why they exist, and they stay true to that reason.
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82 |
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The Advantage:
An organization’s core purpose – why it exists – has to be completely idealistic.
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82 |
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The Advantage:
Employees in every organization, and at every level, need to know that at the heart of what they do lies something grand and aspirational.
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82 |
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The Advantage:
…every organization must contribute in some way to a better world for some group of people, because if it doesn’t, it will, and should, go out of business.
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83 |
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The Advantage:
As a result of having no real idealistic boundaries, they [executives] operate in a largely reactive, shortsighted way, being overly tactical and opportunistic.
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83 |
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The Advantage:
…an organization’s reason for existence, its purpose, has to be true. It must be based on the real motivations of the people who founded or are running the organization…
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84 |
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The Advantage:
…an organization’s reason for existing is not meant to be a differentiator…
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90 |
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The Advantage:
If an organization is tolerant of everything, it will stand for nothing.
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91 |
