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An Everyone Culture
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An Everyone Culture

by Robert Kegan, Lisa Laskow Lahey, Matthew L Miller, Andy Fleming, Deborah Helsing
March 2016
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
336 pages
8h 12m
English
Harvard Business Review Press
Audiobook available
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But Is This Any Way to Run a Business?

The Strictly Business Value of Being a DDO

One of the easiest ways to misunderstand a DDO is to conclude that these people are not serious about being a business. When hard-boiled businesspeople see the most senior people in the company spending hours with employees half their age on what they would call mere “personnel issues,” their most charitable reactions are along the lines of, “Nice impulse; lousy way to run a business.”

“I’m not going to call their leaders naive, or their companies cults, as I’ve heard some people do,” one business analyst told us, “but it’s clear these folks are playing a fundamentally different game. The leaders have the souls of teachers more than businesspeople. If you want ...

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ISBN: 9781625278630