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How do you know, if a company will do well in the future?

Guest post by: Dr. Martina Violetta Jung

Article Overview: A brief leadership checklist.

How do you know, if a company will do well in the future?

If you want to know whether a company will do well in the future, here is a simple but very accurate checklist:

1. Are the most capable and efficient people in positions that match their capacities?
2. Do these people have sufficient decision making authority?
3. Are people in top positions capable, humble and close to their team?
4. Do people wholeheartedly love what they do?

'Arrogant dragons will have to regret', goes a Chinese saying that is more than a thousand years old. It is equally true today, as it was then.

If you are an entrepreneur, make sure your company scores high on these criteria. If you are an employee, demand a position that matches your capabilities, but be humble and close to all others. If you work with a company filled with arrogant dragons, you better be gone. It is just a matter of time until the company will have to regret what such people will do or have already done to it.

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