The Infinite Game

What happened at Walmart
: Simon Sinek, “Why Too Many Successions Don’t
Succeed,” Huffington Post, December 27, 2008, 
www.huffingtonpost.com/simon-
sinek/why-too-many-successions_b_146700.html
.
“I will go up and out”
: From a conversation with General Lori Robinson.
“I think one of the reasons”
: Michael Dinkins, “What Jack Welch Taught This CFO
about Leadership,” Spend Culture Stories Podcast, 2018,
soundcloud.com/spendculture/what-it-was-like-to-work-with-jack-welch-michael-dinkins
.
“The opportunity to lead Walmart”
: “Doug McMillon Elected New Chief Executive
Officer of Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.,” Walmart, November 25, 2013,
corporate.walmart.com/_news_/news-archive/2013/11/25/doug-mcmillon-elected-new-
chief-executive-officer-of-wal-mart-stores-inc
.
CHAPTER 5: THE RESPONSIBILITY OF BUSINESS
(REVISED)
“In a free-enterprise”
: Milton Friedman, “A Friedman Doctrine—The Social
Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits.” The New York Times Magazine,
September 13, 1970, 
www.nytimes.com/1970/09/13/archives/a-friedman-doctrine-the-
social-responsibility-of-business-is-to.html
.
“only one social responsibility”
: Friedman, “A Friedman Doctrine.”
“Consumption . . . is the sole end”
: Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations, Part Two
(New York: Collier, 1902), 442.
As Henry Ford said
: Quoted in Bryce G. Hoffman, American Icon: Alan Mulally and
the Fight to Save Ford Motor Company (New York: Crown Publishing, 2012), 398.
Thanks in large part
: Caroline Fohlin, “A Brief History of Investment Banking from
Medieval Times to the Present,” in The Oxford Handbook of Banking and Financial
History, ed. Youssef Cassis et al. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014).