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What the Best Transformational Leaders Do

Harvard Business Review

We see an interesting pattern across the professionally managed companies, those whose CEOs were hired by the board. Established as a separate division in 2006, AWS ultimately addressed a long-standing analyst complaint about Amazon — that its core was only barely profitable. These CEOs are what we call “insider outsiders.”