A recent article in the Harvard Business Review, “Three Rules for Making A Company Truly Great,” pointed to three elemental rules that were consistently followed by exceptional companies. There are a lot of hyperbole and clichés about how to create great companies, but the research by Michael Raynor and Mumtaz Ahmed (in the HRB article) shows that three fundamental principles are the keys to success. This finding was based on a statistical study of thousands of companies, so it is much more analytic than what business book happens to be at the top of the charts in a particular week. It is also apparent that these principles apply to social and mobile game companies.
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