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Review title: Business professors explaining how to run a business
Product review: I fully agree with the premise of the authors, namely that focusing on employee satisfaction is key to achieving business success. The problem is that you could easily bankrupt a business before it got started if you implemented all of the insanely expensive employee centered policies in this book. Knowing where to draw the line is crucial to survival.Like so many business books, "Hidden Value" is second hand wisdom, a description by (tenured) academics describing how entrepreneurs ran successful businesses. This is fine for academic pursuits. But if you are putting your life savings (and most likely a few other things you would rather not lose) at risk in a business, "Hidden Value" is far from the last word on the subject.
