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What the Best Transformational Leaders Do

Harvard Business Review

Satya Nadella, for instance, joined Microsoft in 1992 and worked his way up to running its cloud computing effort, building that business unit into a viable new growth platform before becoming CEO, in 2014. The same was true of Adobe’s Shantanu Narayen. Theodor Weimer , Country Chairman at UniCredit.

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The 4 Types of Project Manager

Harvard Business Review

Your organization’s growth opportunities fall into four different categories, and in order to develop your business in a commercially sustainable manner, you need four specific types of project manager to pursue them. Hence, the projects in X tend to be outside Google’s current domain and strategic focus.