According to Curt Coffman, co-author of First, Break All the Rules, engaged employees are builders.

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After a few days of eating fondue in five Swiss cantons, I was ready to break all the rules.

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That is a lesson that runs through First, Break All the Rules by Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman, first published in 1999.

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While Big Big Businesses are usually the most prestigious opportunities for any emerging technology, Big Data is attempting to break all the rules.

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The urge to break rules, after all, depends on the urge to make rules.

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Is it maybe even necessary to break (almost) all the rules when you are striving to create something entirely new?

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There have been concerns that the effort could break EU competition rules because all bids so far had been won by BT.

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All these rules make it hideously difficult for new parties to break the electoral oligopoly of the existing ones.

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As one lawyer once said by all means go around, bend and twist the rules....but never break them.

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