"Success in the long run has less to do with finding the best idea, organizational structure, or business model for an enterprise, than with discovering what matters to us as individuals."
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Jerry Porras, Stewart Emery and Mark Thompson. Success Built to Last: Creating A Life That Matters, Wharton School Publishing, 2006. p. 3-4
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Jerry I. Porras
(born September 20, 1938) is an American organizational theorist, Lane Professor Emeritus of Organizational Behavior and Change at the . He is best known from the co-author with James C. Collins of the 1994 book Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies, which was listed second in the Most Influential Management Books list of 2002.
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