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Preview Thursday: No Ego by Cy Wakeman

Lead Change Blog

For the first time, I would be leading a team, which got me a free ticket to the Human Resources boot camp for managers. In fact, they drove their b g, moaning, and whining (BMWs) through the open door and parked with their engines idling, wasting fuel, and polluting the atmosphere. In 2001, she founded Reality-Based Leadership.

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Hiring and Managing in Turbulent Times

Harvard Business Review

But, with legions of great engineers streaming out of closing or soon-to-close U.S. Then came the September 11, 2001, attacks, followed by fully-fledged economic crises in the U.S. We continued to hire outstanding consultants and elected every single candidate who came up for partner during that period. But we barely downsized.