This is the one nobody in the executive suite really wants to hear about, but it's simply a core lesson of business history.
It repeatedly ignores not just the basic lessons of better business, but also those of smart public policy.
Despite his background, many outsiders believed Vyakhirev was absorbing lessons of Western business.
My advice to the new generation of philanthropists is to cling fast to the lessons of your business success and apply them to your philanthropy.
And my entrepreneurial experiences have been a crash course in lessons of life, business and self that, at times, brought me to the brink of what I thought I could handle, only to be rewarded nicely for sticking it out and seeing it through.
There is no shortage of lessons for business in what these groups have done.
To non-Americans trying to put Mr Torre's departure in context, his record as a manager is better even than that of Sir Alex Ferguson of Manchester United, a team almost as powerful and famous in soccer as are the Yankees in baseball.It is the circumstances of Mr Torre's exit, and their broader lessons for business, that are of interest to this column.
Why they haven't and how their product has benefited offer lessons for business in the era of the Web.
The lesson for business owners of all types is to heed the collective wisdom of those industry groups you belong to, be open to the need that your company is a growing, breathing entity and requires perpetual freshness to remain relevant.
It might sound like the most rudimentary of business lessons, but it was, Mr. Turan told the roomful of doctors, nurses and social workers, a lesson that the hospital's previous managers had all but ignored.
