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    A business of high principle attracts high-caliber people more easily, thereby gaining a basic competitive and profit edge.

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    A business of high principle generates greater drive and effectiveness because people know that they can do the right thing decisively and with confidence.

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    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.

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    Decisions should be based on facts, objectively considered what I call the fact-founded, thought-through approach to decision making.

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    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.

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    If you are not willing to take pain to live by your principles, there is no point in having principles.

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    It follows that acceleration in the rate of change will result in an increasing need for reorganization. Reorganization is usually feared, because it means disturbance of the status quo, a potential threat to peoples vested interests in their jobs, and an upset to established ways of doing things. For these reasons, needed reorganization is often deferred. With a resulting loss in effectiveness and increase in costs.

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    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.

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    People should be judged on the basis of their performance, not nationality, personality, education, or personal traits and skills.

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    The course of business shapes public opinion.

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    The difference between a leadership and a command company can be very great indeed, because in a hierarchical situation, people who have concerns about reactions against themselves would simply not put forward negative information.

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    There is no such thing as business ethics. There is only one kind -- you have to adhere to the highest standards.

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    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.