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LeBron on Ice, or the Fallacy of the Corporate Superstar

Harvard Business Review

His skills and work ethic suggest that it would be reasonable to assume he could have been a world-class ice hockey player if he had dedicated himself to the sport as a youth. But a range of research has shown how successful entrepreneurs generally act differently from successful operators.*. That's no dig on James.

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When Success is Born Out of Serendipity

Harvard Business Review

My own publisher, HBS Press, published two the very same month as my book — one of them co-authored by heavyweight Clay Christensen. What, they asked her, was the most powerful argument for promoting diversity — outside of ethical and legal ones? Sure enough, serendipity often is the story.