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Conscious Capitalism Field Guide
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Conscious Capitalism Field Guide

by Raj Sisodia, Timothy Henry, Thomas Eckschmidt
March 2018
Beginner content levelBeginner
432 pages
8h 28m
English
Harvard Business Review Press
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Chapter 18

Setting Organizational Priorities

Changing behavior and habits is not easy. If it were, people would change the things that they are most dissatisfied with. Consider David Maister’s essay “Strategy and the Fat Smoker.”1 Fat smokers know they need to stop smoking, go on a diet, and begin to exercise. But the gap between knowing what you need to do and doing it can be large. For example, sadly, three years after having a heart attack, only about 5 to 10 percent of overweight smokers make significant, sustained changes in their lifestyle.

So, change isn’t easy. In the previous parts of this book, you have completed many exercises and created potential actions and initiatives around each of the four pillars of Conscious Capitalism. In ...

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Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9781633691711