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What to Do When Your Boss Says No

Harvard Business Review

The company started as a single store, but about a decade later it was a national chain on the heels of filing an IPO. While this belief is true at times, it leads us to underuse our creativity and our determination to work with what we have. Several years ago I sat down with the CEO of a fast-growing retail business. “Say no!”