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Business and Community
A firm’s relationship with the place it operates in: the compact that is rarely written down, and what breaks it.
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When the Firm Has to Say No
A visible firm is asked for something most weeks. Saying yes to everything is unsustainable and saying no badly costs standing, so the useful thing is a stated position decided in advance.
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What a Chamber Is Actually For
Business associations do one thing no individual firm can do, and most of them spend their capacity on things individual firms could do perfectly well alone.
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The Unwritten Compact
A firm and the place it operates in hold expectations of each other that nobody has recorded. The compact is invisible while it holds and expensive to rebuild once broken.