A business of high principle generates greater drive and effectiveness because people know that they can do the right thing decisively and with confi… - Marvin Bower

The business with high ethical standards has three primary advantages over competitors whose standards are lower:

I believe that leaders and leadership teams working together in a proper design will run the business more effectively than by hierarchical, command-and-control managing. But I can't prove that. And there are no models.

... for all the reasons we have discussed in these pages, judgments brought to the board by leaders are likely to be better than those coming to the board in a command company. Moreover, the effective working relationships between leaders and directors in a leadership company further ensures the exercise of sound judgments for such momentous decisions ...