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Innovation

Investment decisions or personal decisions don’t wait for the picture to be clarified.

ANDY GROVE

Make Change Work for You

Ryan Lance, CEO of ConocoPhillips, believes that people need to think beyond what they think is initially possible. “I tell people that human nature is not very amenable to change, so most people like the standard way of doing things. But I say that change equates to opportunity. If you look for opportunity to come out of change, you can always find it. You can spend your time looking for the difficult elements of change, but opportunities are always there. In our business there’s another tenet that’s important, and it’s follow the capital or follow the growth. You want to go where the business is booming, ...

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