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If You're Not Pissing Someone Off, You're Probably Not Innovating

Harvard Business Review

Since you, the disruptive entrepreneur, can count on incumbent resistance (if not necessarily physical attack) down the road once you're successful, the question is: What can you do early on to be prepared for the onslaught? Ethics aren't just important in business," Branson says. They are the whole point of business."

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Why Bankers Need to Be Put Into Little Boxes

Harvard Business Review

From the same letter: [N]o company operates in a vacuum. That we resisted the temptation to the extent that we did is a source of at least some consolation for me. Why did M&T make such out-of-character investments? The funny thing is, in any other business, such talk would come across as whiny special pleading.

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