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8 Rules For Creating A Passionate Work Culture
BY Paul Alofs |
This article is written by a member of our expert contributor community.
Several
years ago I was in the Thomson Building in Toronto. I went down the
hall to the small kitchen to get myself a cup of coffee. Ken Thomson
was there, making himself some instant soup. At the time, he was the
ninth-richest man in the world, worth approximately $19.6 billion.
Enough, certainly, to afford a nice lunch. I looked at the soup he was
stirring. “It suits me just fine,” he said, smiling.Thomson understood value. Neighbors reported seeing him leave his local grocery store with jumbo packages of tissues that were on sale. He bought off-the-rack suits and had his old shoes resoled. Yet he had no difficulty paying almost $76 million for a painting (for Peter Paul Rubens’s Massacre of the Innocents, in 2002). He sought value, whether it was in business, art, or groceries.
In 1976, Thomson inherited a $500-million business empire that was built on newspapers, publishing, travel agencies, and oil. By the time he died, in 2006, his empire had grown to $25 billion.
He left both a financial legacy and an art legacy, but his most lasting legacy might be the culture he created.
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