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6. Daniel Isenberg, “The Danger of Entrepreneurial Passion,” Har-
vard Business Review, January 6, 2010, http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/
2010/01/the_danger_of_entrepreneurial.html.

7. Alex Crippen, “Timeless and Time-Tested Warren Buffett Watch
Predictions.” CNBC, November 30, 2009, http://www.cnbc.com/
id/34206949/Timeless_and_Time_Tested_Warren_Buffett_
Watch_Predictions.

8. I borrow the terms advocacy and inquiry from Peter Senge and his
many colleagues, who, in The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook and else-
where, provide a set of indispensable concepts and tools for
building learning organizations and practicing skillful conversa-
tions. (See Appendix B for more information.)

9. Jim Collins, “Hitting the Wall: Realizing That Vertical Limits
Aren’t,” JimCollins.com, September 2003, http://www.jimcollins
.com/article_topics/articles/hitting-the-wall.html.

10. Lloyd Albert Johnson, A Toolbox for Humanity: More Than 9000
Years of Thought (Victoria, Canada: Trafford, 2003), 97.

11. John Osher, 17 Mistakes Startups Make, http://www.cpd.ogi.edu
/MST/capstone/17Mistakes.htm.

12. Warren Buffett, “Chairman’s Letter: Berkshire Hathaway, Inc.,
2007 Annual Report” (2008): 7.

13. Jim Collins, Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap… and
Others Don’t (New York: HarperCollins, 2001), 85.

14. Vaclav Havel. Quoted in Amnesty International’s essay “From
Prisoner to President—A Tribute,” 2003.

Chapter Eight – Staying Power

1. Scott A. Shane, The Illusions of Entrepreneurship: The Costly Myths
That Entrepreneurs, Investors, and Policy Makers Live By (New Haven:
Yale University Press, 2008), p.112.

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