“any leader who wishes to lead in the Infinite Game must have a crystal clear Just Cause... the goal is not to win, but to keep playing... A Just Cause is bout the future. It defines where we are going. It describes the world er hope to live in”

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“George Washington forbade anti-Catholic organizing in his armies and regularly attended Catholic services to model the behavior he expected of his men.”

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“The true value of an organization is measured by the desire others have to contribute to that organization's ability to keep succeeding, not just during the time they are there, but well beyond their own tenure.”

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“For the past 40+ years, we have been building companies with a definition of business that is actually bad for business and undermines the very system of capitalism it proclaims to embrace.”

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“It is not technology that explains failure; it is less about technology, per se, and more about the leaders' failure to envision the future of their business as the world changes around them.”

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“after Friedman's 1970 article executives and directors... became excessively focused on shorter-and-shorter-term gains to the benefit of fewer and fewer people.... in large part due to Friedman's ideas... in 1978, the average CEO made approximately 30 times the average worker's salary and by 2016, the average had increased over 800% to 271 times the average worker's pay... at a rate 70% faster than the stock market!”

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“leaders are not responsible for the results, leaders are responsible for the people who are responsible for the results-- for creating a safe, a trusted and trusting, supportive environment”

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“It is an infinite-minded player's appreciation for the unpredictable that allows them to make these kinds ofd changes. Where a finite-minded player fears things that are new or disruptive, the infinite-minded player revels in them.”

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“In an organization, it is often the founders and early contributors who have the clearest vision of the unknown future, of what, to everyone else, remains unseen.”

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“Without a Just Cause, an organization starts to function like a ship without a compass.”

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“Very often, finite-minded leaders believe the source of will is externally motivated—pay packages, bonuses, perks or internal competition. If only that's all it took to inspire a human being! Money can buy a lot of things but it can't buy true will... the difference between an organization filled with mercenaries versus one filled with zealots. [ cf. Russian mercenaries and draftees vs the inspired Ukrainians defending their home. ]”

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“Because leaders fail to envision the future as the world rapidly changes around them, in the '60's, the average life of a company was 60 years; now it's only 20 years.”

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