American culture Quote by Marcus Buckingham

“American culture is CEO obsessed. We celebrate the hard-charging heroes and mythologize the iconoclastic visionaries. Those people are important.”

Marcus Buckingham

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If you want execution, hail only success. If you want creativity, hail risk, and remain neutral about success.

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