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Values-Driven Business
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Values-Driven Business

by Ben Cohen, Mal Warwick
April 2006
Intermediate to advanced
192 pages
3h 50m
English
Berrett-Koehler Publishers
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Preface

Nobody owns an idea. If you doubt that, just ask the guy who invented money.

Or take the idea of business.

Business has been around in one form or another for most of the 400-some generations that humans have embarrassed themselves by setting their history down in writing. If you’ve somehow gotten the impression that business was invented by Henry Ford or the United States Chamber of Commerce, we’d like to offer you an opportunity to invest in a surefire scheme to drill for oil in midtown Manhattan.

In fact, not only has business been a part of the landscape for thousands of years, during most of that time it has had less to do with money than with sheer physical survival. A single-minded obsession with money in business isn’t anything ...

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