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In A Well-functioning Democracy, Citizens Have The Option Of Voting Their Political Masters Out Of Office. Not So In Most Companies.

An Uplifting Sense Of Purpose Is More Than An Impetus For Individual Accomplishment, It Is Also A Necessary Insurance Policy Against Expediency And Impropriety.

Dakota Tribal Wisdom Says That When You're On A Dead Horse, The Best Strategy Is To Dismount. Of Course, There Are Other Strategies. You Can Change Riders. You Can Get A Committee To Study The Dead Horse. You Can Benchmark How Other Companies Ride Dead Horses. You Can Declare That It's Cheaper To Feed A Dead Horse. You Can Harness Several Dead Horses Together. But After You've Tried All These Things, You're Still Going To Have To Dismount.

If Customer Ignorance Is A Profit Centre For You, You're In Trouble.

All Too Often, A Successful New Business Model Becomes The Business Model For Companies Not Creative Enough To Invent Their Own.