Foreword
"A primary lesson of history is that periodically, and often at the most inconvenient times, society needs to make a sharp break with old habits and deliberately learn new ways of behaving." – Jumping the Curve, by Nicholas Imparato and Oren Harari
For my business partner and me, lunch at iHop always heralded a serious business decision. We had lunch at iHop when we decided to incorporate our consulting firm in 1992. We had lunch there when we decided to hire a CEO. We had lunch again when we decided to fire him. We found ourselves again at iHop in 2011—me nibbling on the Breakfast Sampler, he on the steak and eggs—as we discussed whether to accept an offer to acquire our firm.
We weren't ...
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