Purpose, not platitudes: A personal challenge for top executives
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Purpose, not platitudes: A personal challenge for top executives
Peter Drucker said that “making money for a company is like oxygen for a person; if you don’t have enough of it you’re out of the game.” In other words, profitability is a performance requirement for all businesses, but it is not a purpose. Extending Drucker’s metaphor, companies who take profit as their purpose are like people who think life is ab
... See morePurpose represents a specific intention, a course of action, and an aim toward which we point ourselves.