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The Case for Lending Out Your Star Performers

Harvard Business Review

For example, the power company Tenaga Nasional could send a leader with strong operating capabilities to work for several years at Malaysia Airlines, acquiring skills in turning around a troubled business. Historically, Shell’s top leaders spent their careers at the company.

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We Took a Vote. You're Fired.

Harvard Business Review

Instead, the decision to fire (or hire or promote) someone is based on group consensus. Reuters reporter Axel Threlfall says he finds it hard to believe the bankers when they say they were attracted to the industry as much by career opportunities and the prospect of interesting work as the salaries. BONUS BITS: Getting Around.

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Why Are Startup Founders So Bad at Changing Their Own Companies?

Harvard Business Review

From airlines to autos, and from TVs to taxis, individual entrepreneurs have upended one industry after another. Toss in some office politics and career management interests, and you’ll produce the most banal feedback imaginable. Company founders would seem to be a natural fit for change management programs.