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How to Support Employees’ Learning Goals While Getting Day-to-Day Stuff Done

Harvard Business Review

You’re not cut out for engineering. Nearly every manager who has reported to me has questioned the wisdom of spending time building talent when there are immediate business goals. When I launched my first company in 2008 (CarZen, acquired by Liberty Mutual), one of my first hires was a CTO. Sales isn’t what you do.

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Make Your Innovative Idea Seem Less Terrifying

Harvard Business Review

But as she began to consider her future at the company, she realized that all of the people above her were white, male engineers or accountants. Making the leap to a new career curve is a bold idea that also needs to be sold, and the importance of mitigating risk for the key decisionmaker — the prospective employer — holds true.