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How The Mighty Fall
I am currently reading Jim Collins’ latest work, How The Mighty Fall. It concluded with the interesting quote:
There’s a provocative lesson: beware the hubris that can rise in conjunction with missionary zeal…Whenever people begin to confuse the nobility of their cause with the goodness and wisdom of their decisions… they can perhaps more easily lead themselves astray. Bad decisions made with good intentions are still bad decisions.
How many leaders, in business or government, have succumbed to the failings born of hubris, and is there any student of business more qualified than Jim Collins to point us in the right direction?
2009-11-14 (Saturday) at 8:55 am
It would appear that Obama, with his left-wing zeal, is demonstrating the same hubris.
2009-11-17 (Tuesday) at 10:56 pm
I believe the jokes “we are all socialists now” or “we are all Keynesian now” or “socialism with American characteristics” were introduced when GWB was President.