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Appetites Quote by Gary Hamel

“If corporate leaders and their acolytes are not slaves to some meritorious social purpose, they run the risk of being enslaved by their own ignoble appetites.” quote by Gary Hamel — Download Open image

“If corporate leaders and their acolytes are not slaves to some meritorious social purpose, they run the risk of being enslaved by their own ignoble appetites.”

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The lust to meet authors ranks low, I think, on the roll of holy appetites; but it is an authentic pang.

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