11 future lessons we can learn from the history of business
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s Nitin Nohria, the Dean at Harvard Business School, told me in a recent interview, a sense of business history is important for business leaders to develop a contextual intelligence; that is, a strong sense of the business environment they are navigating. Everything changes, that’s for sure. But bu
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- s Nitin Nohria, the Dean at Harvard Business School, told me in a recent interview, a sense of business history is important for business leaders to develop a contextual intelligence; that is, a strong sense of the business environment they are navigating.
- Everything changes, that’s for sure. But business will always be driven by people, and people haven’t changed much at all.
- Sadly, the strongest emotions in a business context are greed and fear - which is why we will continue to experience asset bubbles that will burst. There will be frauds and swindlers, like Charles Ponzi and Bernie Madoff. And so on.
- On the most fundamental level, people are driven by emotions.
- People and businesses have a tendency to get wound up and start hyperventilating around the idea of rapid change.
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