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Joan Ganz Cooney | 04/26/2009 11:00 pm

Joan Ganz Cooney Doesn't Know the Formula for Success

By Joan Ganz Cooney

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In response to: What is the most important lesson in leadership you have ever learned? What were the circumstances?

Years ago, a well-known retired family friend said to me, "I don’t know the formula for success but I know the one for failure: Try to please everyone." When I was in a business leadership role, I tried never to forget those words and I think they served me well.

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