Robert Townsend

United States
30 Jul 1920 // 12 Jan 1998
Executive, Author

Nobody should be chief executive officer of anything for more than five or six years. By then he's stale, bored, and utterly dependent upon his own clich�s.

Up the Organization (1970)

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