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Apr 02, 2009 08:54

The other day I got a Max DePree quote via fortune. This surprised because I was not aware that Max DePree was known outside of west Michigan. He was the founder of the Herman Miller corporation, a home and office furniture manufacturer with its worldwide headquarters in Zeeland, MI, but with now more locations scattered around the globe. Or at ( Read more... )

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drinzy April 3 2009, 04:56:13 UTC

but what was the quote??

cowboyneal April 3 2009, 13:41:19 UTC

"In corporate life, I think there are three important areas which contracts can't deal with, the area of conflict, the area of change and area of reaching
potential. To me a covenant is a relationship that is based on such things as shared ideals and shared value systems and shared ideas and shared
agreement as to the processes we are going to use for working together. In many cases they develop into real love relationships."

-- Max DePree, chairman and CEO of Herman Miller Inc., "Herman Miller's Secrets of Corporate Creativity", The Wall Street Journal, May 3, 1988