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most entrepreneurs used the number of employees, rather than revenue, to describe inflection points that triggered change.

Edward Hess • Grow to Greatness: Smart Growth for Entrepreneurial Businesses

Assuming Weber’s central insight to have been correct, then in the face of the dramatic transformation in the forms of contemporary capitalism, some new ethos ought to be unfolding right before our eyes.

Micki McGee • Self-Help, Inc.: Makeover Culture in American Life

For me the starting point for everything - before strategy, tactics, theories, managing, organizing, philosophy, methodology, talent, or experience - is work ethic.

Bill Walsh • The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership

research shows that employees want to be respected and listened to by their bosses. They want to have some control over the content and execution of their jobs, the opportunity to excel, and to do work they feel good about

Edward Hess • Grow to Greatness: Smart Growth for Entrepreneurial Businesses

They found that individuals with higher income or a higher social status were the most likely to say that success results from luck and connections rather than hard work, while low-income individuals were more likely to say success comes from hard work and individual effort.

Rob Henderson • Luxury Beliefs are Status Symbols

Ela Bhatt, a classic Essentialist and truly visionary leader

Greg Mckeown • Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less

Pursuits That Can’t Scale | Theory No. 31

Anu workingtheorys.com

According to the power law theory, certain efforts actually produce exponentially more results than others.

Greg Mckeown • Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less

My high organic growth company research found that the following characteristics helped create a positive business culture: 1. “ownership;” 2. promotion-from-within policies; 3. education and training opportunities; 4. creating a “family” atmosphere; 5. constant communication about the key values of the business; 6. the celebration of successes; 7.