Chapter 10. Naked Conversations—Harvesting Contention
Disagreement is refreshing when two men lovingly desire to compare their views to find out truth. Controversy is wretched when it is only an attempt to prove another wrong. | ||
| --Frederick William Robertson | ||
“ Idon’t know if I would ever let anybody in there; they would probably be appalled,” said Warren Staley. Outsiders aren’t invited to his staff meetings, but insiders look forward to them. “I mean, there’s emotion in terms of passion about ideas and debate.”
Staley is chairman and CEO of Cargill, one of the world’s largest private companies. With revenues of more than $70 billion, it is bigger than Dell, Microsoft, or Procter & Gamble, and—if it were a publicly traded company—it would have ...
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