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Success Built to Last: Creating a Life that Matters
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Success Built to Last: Creating a Life that Matters

by Porras Jerry, Stewart Emery, Mark Thompson
September 2006
Beginner to intermediate
304 pages
5h 50m
English
Pearson
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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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