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Who is the most important person in your company?
Just thinking about this question can be a useful exercise
Questions are usually more interesting than answers. If you had to identify the most important person in your organisation, there is an obvious answer, a trite-and-untrue answer and a wrong-but-useful answer.
This article appeared in the Business section of the print edition under the headline “The ranked organisation”
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