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How Microsoft Avoided the Peter Principle with Nadella

Harvard Business Review

During the final year, they added three paths to gather a last round of data: 1) The CEO and directors assigned a year-long CEO-level project to each of the three finalists. Or consider managed-health care provider Humana’s decision in 2013 to recruit an outsider as its next chief executive.

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