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The course of business shapes public opinion.
A business of high principle generates greater drive and effectiveness because people know that they can do the right thing decisively and with confidence.
Leading fosters a working atmosphere that stimulates an open exchange of ideas and fosters dissent. People should show a genuine concern for one another and treat one another with fairness, as peers and friends. With such an atmosphere it should be a pleasure to come to work.
Decisions should be based on facts, objectively considered.
If you are not willing to take pain to live by your principles, there is no point in having principles.
Basic philosophy, spirit and drive of an organization have far more to do with its relative achievements than do technological or economic resources, organizational structure, innovation and timing.
The most frequent cause of failures in business is not people who answered the right questions incorrectly, but people who answered the wrong questions correctly. I have seen many companies "incrementalize" themselves into a corner, through a
series of small - what appeared optimal - decisions, often based on erroneous assumptions.
Convinced that behavior and conduct are every bit as important as skills and expertise, I sought to build the firm into an enduring, values-based institution.
There is no such thing as business ethics. There is only one kind
you have to adhere to the highest standards.
I believe that leaders and leadership teams working together in a proper design will run the business more effectively than by hierarchical, command-and-control managing. But I can't prove that. And there are no models.
