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Exercise 1: Insight intoYour Operating Philosophy
OUR specific values do not always explain all of our actions. For example, two executives we met in a workshop recently both had “family” as their most important value. One chose to be an international VP of a large company and would fly to another city every Sunday night or Monday morning, returning to his home on Friday night or Saturday morning. The other was a plant manager of a chemical company who had turned down two promotions that were offered to him in the last year—one because it would involve a lot of travel and the other because it would have required his family to move. When asked how each of them could place “family” in the same position ...
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