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In 2014, Resolve to Make Your Business Human Again

Harvard Business Review

Peter Drucker famously said that the point of a business was to create a customer. Worshipping at what Christensen calls the “church of finance” hollows out a company’s competitive advantage, as it loses the capacity to invest in innovation that drives the perpetual reinvention so necessary in today’s world of temporary competitive advantage.

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What All Great Leaders Have In Common | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

It includes books by Peter Drucker, Charles Handy, Charles Koch, Jack Welch, and Bob Sutton. I've found that they teach different lessons when you hold them up against the background of your new experiences. Here's a link to a recent "re-reading" list. link] mikemyatt Thanks for sharing your reading list Wally.

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