The entire human resources department of a small company may consist of just one person who may not have copies ready to send out.

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Actually customers have concluded that already: that CMO Council survey also asked customers what their expectations were when they complain to their carriers about an issue. 29% of the respondents said the company simply would not care and another 16% said the company would not address the concerns of one person out of a million.

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Success at one company does not mean that a person or a team is capable of bring the formula of success with him or her to another company.

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Since the death of Jobs, the company has been trying to move from a company built around one person, to a company struggling to adapt to a new model.

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It could perhaps even be a single person within one of the companies, unbeknownst to others at this company.

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Many startups are initiated by one person who coordinates bringing in the other players (many of whom would never start a company on their own).

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