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Efficiency practices, with their relatively high fixed cost structure and many juniors, would need to take a more studied, planned approach to growth in order to capture the volume necessary to offset lower margins. The needs for both management and administration would increase, in order to devise optimum ways of dealing with familiar engagement t

David H. Maister • Managing The Professional Service Firm

Such virtues are in dwindling supply in America. Two thirds of all our first marriages end in divorce. The war between children and parents has never been uglier (since it is now concealed, rather than public as it was in the '60's). We think AOL and the local mall are communities. We think that Disney, the corporation, is a story-teller. And, to t... See more

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Nonetheless, if you are trying to change an organization or a society and you do not consider the effects of your changes on moral capital, you’re asking for trouble. This, I believe, is the fundamental blind spot of the left. It explains why liberal reforms so often backfire,43 and why communist revolutions usually end up in despotism. It is the r

Jonathan Haidt • The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion

- "deprioritizing ethical business practices directly undermines stability, profitability and growth"

Hugh Francis • ✨ Expansive Brands • garden3d research

THE DURABILITY QUESTION

Peter Thiel, Blake Masters • Zero to One

MASTER:

Luke Burgis • Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life

The simple truth is this: there is a crisis of confidence in leadership.

Joel Manby • Love Works: Seven Timeless Principles for Effective Leaders

People must have “everyday freedom,” by which I mean the individual authority, at every level of society and every level of responsibility, to act as they feel appropriate, constrained only by the boundaries of law and by norms set by the employer or other institution.

Philip K. Howard • Everyday Freedom: Designing the Framework for a Flourishing Society

A story with too many villains falls apart for lack of clarity.