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0508 | Orly Lobel: Full Transcript

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Actually, reading the book reminded me of this old anecdote that I heard one time, a conversation between a sort of unnamed CEO and an unnamed CFO and essentially, the CFO was asking, “What happens if we invest all this money to develop our people and they leave?” and the CEO’s response is, “Well, what happens if we don’t and they stay?”.

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Getting Collaboration Right

Harvard Business Review

Microsoft, according to a former company executive , had developed a viable tablet computer more than a decade ago but failed to pre-empt Apple's smash hit because competing Microsoft divisions had conspired to kill the project. The alternative problem is that collaboration sometimes goes too far. The result is slow and poor execution.

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