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Loyalty to a Leader Is Overrated, Even Dangerous

Harvard Business Review

.” The notion of loyalty as a protective force that leads to great success is so much a part of how we think about leadership that it is very easy to accept, even when it is not espoused by someone as exceptionally interesting to watch as James Spader. This idea is, I submit, one of the most dangerous myths in organizational life.

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How to Manage an Insecure Employee

Harvard Business Review

Insecure employees are “hard to evaluate, hard to coach, and hard to develop,” says Ethan Burris, an associate professor at the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas, Austin. Today Peter is a successful backend developer, and Anand is the CEO of GrailAI, which uses artificial intelligence to detect cancer.