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The Best Managers Are Boring Managers

Harvard Business Review

Undoubtedly, it would operate according to data rather than intuition and make only evidence-based recommendations. As Michael Maccoby pointed out in an influential HBR essay, these entrepreneurial leaders “tend to be poor listeners who are sensitive to criticism and demonstrate low levels of emotional intelligence.”

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Why Great Success Can Bring Out the Worst Parts of Our Personalities

Harvard Business Review

John Paul Getty installed a coin-operated pay phone in his villa to avoid subsidizing his guests’ phone calls; at the time, he was the richest man in the world. Howard Hughes spent most of his later life in complete isolation rather than have to engage with the public and the resulting exposure to the germs he so feared.