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Volume 4 - No. 3 - 2005


Business

If you succeed in life, you must do it in spite of the efforts of others 
to pull you down  - Edward Howe 
 

The S-Word -  by Terry Goodwin

The Peter Principle told us that employees in a hierarchical organisation will ultimately be promoted to a level of incompetence.  Is that what success means in the standard business environment?

Terry Goodwin did not seek that sort of success, but 50 years in business brought its own desirable outcomes.

In this article he investigates the motivation for his ambition - or apparent lack of it.