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Chester Irving Barnard

Organizations endure, however, in proportion to the breadth of the morality by which they are governed. Thus the endurance of organization depends upon the quality of leadership and that quality derives from the breadth of the morality upon which it rests

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An organization's long-term survival is directly linked to how wide-ranging and strong its ethical principles are. The effectiveness of its leaders, which depends on the scope of their moral values, ultimately determines this ethical foundation.

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