For far too long, I believed that to be a success, you had to be ruthless. You had to be willing to be ruthless. I remember my first manager saying to me, "We will we will get these numbers. We just have to be willing to do whatever it takes. And that pretty much sums up the business culture of the 1980s. Famous movies of that era gave us iconic lines like greed is good, remember? And always be closing. The message was clear. the uh ends are green and they always justify the means. As a young business perso ...