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Phones 4u Founder: The Pain Of Becoming A Billionaire: John Caudwell

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

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Is There a Balance Between Self Worth and Ego?

i've always been criticised for not praising people enough, but what i know in life is that you do need to give them incentives and motivation. And it's this balance between making them feel valued, but not letting their ego get out a check. This was a huge problem for me in the mobile phone world, because we were the leaders in the ok - all my people were poached by the competitors. An ego is always a source of destruction. Ego is never a good thing. But if they feel too good about themselves, then their ego goes up. It would give them too much for feeling of self worth and make them too likely to jump ship. I'd run competitions and

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