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Thoughts That Make You Go Hmmm on…Partnering not Patronizing

The Practical Leader

Our research provides hard evidence that leaders who give in to the urge to clamp down can end up doing their companies a serious disservice.” Instead, they encourage stakeholders to collaborate with them in moving their companies forward.” ” Raj Sisodia, Jag Sheth and David B. ” A.D.

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Quotes to Note on Purposeful Leadership

The Practical Leader

An equally powerful source of energy, one we’ve often neglected or dismissed as unrealistic, is what we might call the ‘purpose motive.'” “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. ” James C.

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Customer Disloyalty and Business as We Shift Toward Subjectivity

First Friday Book Synopsis

The book, Firms of Endearment: How World-Class Companies Profit from Passion and Purpose by Rajendra S. Sheth is about a lot of things, especially the power of passion and purpose in business. I had three different people recommend a book to me last week. Sisodia, David B. Wolfe, and Jagdish N. But it is also [.].

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