“A corporation that fails to see itself as an instrument of all its stakeholders will probably fail to use them, and be used by them, effectively enough to survive in the emerging environment.”

—  Russell L. Ackoff

Source: 1990s, Re-Creating the Corporation (1999), p. 289.

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