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In an era defined by the tyranny of the short-term, The Long Game makes an unfashionable bet: that the most illuminating ideas about long-term success aren’t found at the frontier of what’s new, but in the depths of what has endured.
It is authored by Eric Markowitz, investor and forthcoming author of Outlast (Scribner/Simon & Schuster), who has spent years traveling the world to study the world’s oldest companies — and to ask them a deceptively simple question: What does it take to outlast?
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Eric Markowitz is Director of Research at Nightview Capital and a former award-winning business journalist. He is the author of the forthcoming book Outlast, to be published by Scribner.
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