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Act Like a Leader Before You Are One

Harvard Business Review

Are they clumsy politically? Exert authority where you don''t have any — use influence to prove your leadership chops. Mike Subelsky, the co-founder and CTO at Staq, a tech start-up that makes software for digital advertising companies, spent most of his early career in roles with lots of responsibility, but not much authority.

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