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Pioneering firms average 10% market share with 47% failure rates. Strategic imitators consistently win.
The anger response killing your team performance while vulnerability-enabled managers build retention advantages dominance training cannot replicate
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Everyone celebrated the autonomy pyramid. Few saw how it kills early warning systems.
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