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“Trust Me, I’m a Leader”: Why Building a Culture of Trust Will Boost Employee Performance – and Maybe Even Save Your Company

Strategy Driven

When that need isn’t met, our natural response is to focus energy toward a showdown with the perceived threat. Carl, a self-made success and CEO of a venture-backed software company, is a great example. and held senior management positions at several large IT companies. Feeling safe is a primal human need. Carl had a Ph.D.

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“Trust Me, I’m a Leader”: Why Building a Culture of Trust Will Boost Employee Performance – and Maybe Even Save Your Company

Strategy Driven

When that need isn’t met, our natural response is to focus energy toward a showdown with the perceived threat. Carl, a self-made success and CEO of a venture-backed software company, is a great example. and held senior management positions at several large IT companies. Feeling safe is a primal human need. Carl had a Ph.D.

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Spotting the Great but Imperfect Resume

Harvard Business Review

The gripe: "We're pouring tremendous energy into finding the right resumes. Directors keep nudging these CEOs to play it safe, filling the management team with steady performers whose work history closely matches the job at hand, even if there's no sense of "wow!" But we're losing the ability to find the right people.".

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How Hewlett-Packard Lost the HP Way

Harvard Business Review

The other CEO who managed to get tossed out of his job by virtue of his (still largely unexplained) fascination with a B-level (and that's grading generously) actress. Not to mention boardroom soap operas, front-page ethics scandals, and more changes of direction than a surfer in a hurricane. It's just astonishing.".

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The Most Important Job Interview Question

Harvard Business Review

What is your work ethic? As with venture capitalists and entrepreneurs, it is the talent that is the ultimate customer, not the employer. They more effectively channel your time and energy with the candidate. Tell us more about your last job? How are you going to add value? What about your weaknesses?