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If managing were simple, why do the majority of businesses fail? If physicians had the same success rate as executives, the medical schools would have been shuttered long ago.
Michael Martin Hammer
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Michael Martin Hammer
Age: 60 †
Born: 1948
Born: April 13
Died: 2008
Died: September 3
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