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The Business Value Of Joy (And Just Getting Things Done)

Terry Starbucker

Rich has a fascinating backstory – he found his career calling at age 13, when he typed in a two-line program into a Teletype and the computer came back and typed back “HI RICH”. The use of “ High Speed Voice Technology ” and other decidedly lo-tech (but very effective) tools. magazine.

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The Tempting of Rajat Gupta

Harvard Business Review

In the early 1980s, for example, at least some partners — Bob Waterman, co-author of In Search of Excellence , among them — counseled gradual, quiet expansion, this to maintain the top-flight quality of the consultancy's people and its work. billion to $3.4 The desire to be an insider.

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The Big Picture of Business – Business Lessons to be Learned from the Enron Scandal

Strategy Driven

But, human nature being what it is, people are more easily duped than they are taught to appreciate the attributes of quality and substance. The Enron scandals of 2001 and 2002 focused only upon cooked books audit committees and deal making. I advised several technology companies during their gravy years. by Hank Moore.