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Start Networking with People Outside Your Industry

Harvard Business Review

First, if your network has become too narrow, you limit your options in case of a career change, or a downturn in your company or industry. ” He had spent a decade at a large technology company, rising to become an engineering director. It may seem innocuous, but that inadvertent myopia can put you at serious professional risk.

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Why Uber and Airbnb Needed a Different Kind of CEO

Harvard Business Review

Since their founding less than a decade ago, Uber and Airbnb have wrangled with regulators, challenged the taxi and hotel industries, earned extraordinary valuations from venture capital investors — and fundamentally transformed the way people think about urban transportation and travel. The irony is many VCs just passed on them.

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