April 22, 2010

The Line Between Politics and Business


"In war: resolution. In defeat: defiance. In victory: magnanimity. In peace: goodwill."

Winston Churchill

This is an example of why political thinking does not transfer seamlessly to business.

Resolution, defiance and magnanimity, all suggest absolute attitudes, with war, defeat, victory and peace, all extremes of conflict, losing, winning, and those brief interludes between.


Business is never that all or nothing.


Only goodwill strikes me as largely if not completely applicable.


3 comments :

  1. And I don't think you even need goodwill. If I were to pick one of these, it would be war. Business is war.

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  2. If it is, does it have to be? Is that a good thing?

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  3. If that's true, maybe that's part of the problem....

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