Good Business: Abandoning the Miserly World of Profiteering

Posted on | competitive advantage

  Issue 4.3 | July 2013 In this Article: doing business out of self-interest makes for bad business. by Jonathan Wilson Ten years after the wrack and ruin of genocide in Rwanda, I visited the tiny but infamous country.  [ … ]

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The Unhappy Visionary: How to Develop Organizational Vision

Posted on | vision

Issue 3.11 | October 2012 In this Article: three acts of reflection carry us from dissatisfaction to vision. by Jonathan Wilson Jason Kilar didn’t begin the revolutionary online video service, Hulu, because he had a vision, but because he [ … ]

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Is Your Business Good at Doing Business?

Posted on | purpose

Issue 3.5 | February 2012 In this Article: how corporate social irresponsibility drives the destruction of value. by Jonathan Wilson  If Canada has any prophets, Stephen Lewis is one of them.  Like the ancient biblical prophets, Lewis is a [ … ]

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Profit Fixation is Bad (for Business)

Posted on | profit

Issue 3.1 | September 2011 In this Article: why an exclusive focus on profit creates a dangerous distraction from value creation. by Jonathan Wilson  Apple does not exist to make a profit.  If it did, it would never have [ … ]

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