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Getting Smarter about Google's "Brain Drain"

Harvard Business Review

Several years ago, in a long New Yorker essay called "The Talent Myth," Malcolm Gladwell launched a withering attack on just this sort of star system. Lesson 2: If you want to keep great contributors, develop better managers. But great people can keep working with you, long after they've stopped working for you.

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Case Study: Will Our Chinese Partner Copy Our Technology?

Harvard Business Review

The only person not applauding was Wang Xiguo, the engineer who had led the development of Prime's power train technology. Granted, we don't have a long history in cars like Nissan does, but our power electronics engineering is every bit as good. Apex Automotive was a Taiwanese company that might generously be termed third tier.