“Strategically a major function of the CEO is to look for bad news and courage the organization to respond to it. Employees must be encouraged to share bad news as much as good news.”
Bill Gates
Business @ the Speed of Thought (Primary source)
Business @ the Speed of Thought, co-authored with Collins Hemingway, is Bill Gates’ second major book and his most sustained argument for how digital technology should reshape the internal workings of a company.
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— Bill Gates Primary source“The axiom that you learn more from your failures than your successes is trite but absolutely true.”
— Bill Gates Primary source“A company’s ability to respond to unplanned events, good or bad, is a prime indicator of its ability to compete.”
— Bill Gates Primary source“A good lawyer, a bad neighbor.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source“To speak well of a base man is much the same as speaking ill of a good man.”
— Leonardo da Vinci Primary source“Dying is only bad when it takes a long time and hurts so much that it humiliates you.”
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