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The Blame Game -- Forget It

Using corporate as a crutch is just bad leadership

BusinessWeek -- The Welch Way image BusinessWeek columnists Jack & Suzy Welch say that it is perfectly human for managers to want to blame "up there" for how hard it is "down here." But real leaders can't do that. And they don't

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