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Автор Джек Уэлч

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Contents

Hello and congratulations—congratulations on getting it.

No, not on getting this book, although we’re very happy you did.

Rather, congratulations on getting the fact that no one should do business alone.

Business is the ultimate team sport. Doesn’t make any difference what size your company is, five people, or 5,000, or 150,000, for that matter.

Doesn’t matter if it’s in Gary, Indiana, churning out steel, or in Palo Alto cooking up code. Doesn’t matter if you’re three days into your first job in a windowless cube about 10,000 light-years from the action, or if you run the whole enchilada from a corner office on the forty-fifth floor of headquarters.

Business is not a “me” thing. It’s a “we” thing.

It’s an “I’ll take all the advice and ideas and help I can get” thing.