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Quotes to Note on Purposeful Leadership

The Practical Leader

. “Profitability is a necessary condition for existence and a means to more important ends, but it is not the end in itself for many of the visionary companies. Collins and Jerry Porras, Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies. Today, a growing number of companies comfortably embrace such terms.

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‘Tis the Season of Prophecies, Forecasts, and Predictions

The Practical Leader

Harvard Business School professor, James Heskett, poses the right question in his blog Should Managers Bother Listening to Predictions? ” In providing provocative perspectives on this challenge, Heskett draws from three books on the folly of predictions, how some predictions can be made more accurate, and how to gain from disorder.

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