In the world of science, generations can pass before the truly monumental breakthroughs occur. Even when these events happen, most people can only take the word of others that what happened was phenomenal. As Americans celebrated an event that happened 236 years earlier, in France, scientists celebrated something a bit older still.

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The best managers have a fundamentally different understanding of workplace, company, and team dynamics. See what they get right. Getty A few years back, I interviewed some of the most successful CEOs in the world in order to discover their management secrets. I learned that the "best of the best" tend to share the following eight core beliefs.